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445524

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Iran: Overseas Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps diplomatic staff based at the British Embassy in Tehran are taking to increase trade between Iran and the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	22886
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2016 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.</p><br /><p>We want to help British businesses take advantage of the opportunities that economic re-engagement with Iran will bring. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) are engaging with UK businesses to provide support and assistance to help ensure they benefit from opportunities as they arise. UKTI now have a presence in the British Embassy in Tehran.</p><br /><p>During his visit to Tehran in October, my noble Friend the Minister for Trade and Investment, Lord Maude, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with his Iranian counterpart that sets the direction for our future economic and business relationship.</p><br /><p>There is a desire on both sides to build a long-term bilateral relationship based on partnership, where trade and investment is a key pillar.</p><br /> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 21/01/2016 15:55:40 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

834008

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Redundancy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many personnel made redundant from the armed forces between September 2011 and June 2014 used (a) the Core Resettlement Programme (b) Career Transition Partnership (c) CTP Future Horizons and (d) the Employment Support Programme.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	125765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Between September 2011 and June 2014, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) ran a redundancy programme resulting in 12,134 Service personnel being selected for redundancy, of which 10,851 used a billable Career Transition Partnership (CTP) Service. All Regular and Gurkha personnel leaving the UK Armed Forces through the redundancy programme were entitled to receive the highest level of support through the Full Resettlement Programme (FRP) (now called the Core Resettlement Programme). The MOD has no records of any personnel electing to use a lower level of provision.</p><p>The estimated cost incurred through the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) contract to support Service personnel made redundant between June 2011 and September 2014 was £5.2 million.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 125762 question first answered 07/02/2018 16:34:19 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

832955

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Cadets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much funding was allocated to youth cadets in North Yorkshire in (a) 2015-2016 and (b) 2016-2017.
	tabling member constituency	Harrogate and Knaresborough
	tabling member printed	Andrew Jones
	uin	125271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 05/02/2018 17:30:01 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones

828668

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Private Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish the Continuity of Education Allowance payments made to each Service, by rank, over each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	uin	124326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2018 answer text <p>The requested information is provided in the attached tables.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 30/01/2018 15:00:23 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood attachment 1 file name CEA_Cost_By Rank-TABLES-SUBMITTED.xlsx title CEA Payments
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

938452

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: One Public Estate Programme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State and Minister for Defence People and Veterans of 9 July 2018, Official Report, column 706, whether it is his policy that the One Public Estate principles apply to public land that has its freehold vested within an association.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	163148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2018 answer text <p>Public land disposals are managed in accordance with Government policy and Her Majesty's Treasury guidelines to obtain best value. Where land is owned by an Association, the Department would expect that they will continue to work closely with the Local Authority.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 16/07/2018 15:17:24 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

792661

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the (a) location and (b) establishment by rank of the Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
	tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
	uin	114588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine is based at RAF Henlow.</p><p> </p><p>The establishment by rank is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Number</p></td><td><p>Rank</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>Air Commodore</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>Group Captain</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>Wing Commander</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>Squadron Leader</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>Junior Officers</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>Warrant Officer</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>Chief Technician/Flight Sergeant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>Sergeant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>Corporal</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>Senior &amp; Leading Aircraftsman</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Due to the small populations generated by this level of detail and the possibility of identifying individual personnel, data has been rounded to 10. When rounding to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. “ ~ ” denotes a number less than or equal to 5.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 28/11/2017 17:26:53 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

857042

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Dogs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military working dogs that were re-homed at the end of their service lives were subsequently reported as destroyed in each of the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	131554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Ministry of Defence.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 12/03/2018 15:41:44 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1091252

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	France: Military Decorations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many surviving British veterans who fought for the liberation of France during the second world war are waiting (a) to have their applications to receive the French Legion d'Honneur processed by his Department and (b) to receive the award of the Legion d'Honneur for which they have been certified as eligible by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	234103
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence currently has seven applications for the Legion d'Honneur that will be sent to the French authorities shortly. There are 14 Legion d'Honneur cases for which we are seeking clarification from the applicants. There are currently 68 cases for the award being processed by the French authorities.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 22/03/2019 12:10:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1006007

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Cadets
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) he and (b) a Minister in his Department last visited a cadet detachment in the north west of Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	190807
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>As Minister with responsibility for Cadets, I commend the good work Cadet forces do in Northern Ireland and welcome invitations to visit its Cadet establishments. I met with Cadets in East Londonderry on 23 June 2018. I also met Cadets in Belfast on 11 November 2018. The Secretary of State for Defence has not visited Cadets in north west Northern Ireland, although he did meet with Cadets on 8 September 2018 in Enniskillen.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 19/11/2018 16:47:46 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

800548

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the transparency document entitled MoD's ministerial travel, April to June 2017, which tickets relating to which journeys were (a) first, (b) business, (c) economy and (d) any other class; and what the cost was of each such ticket.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	117169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The table below sets out the travel undertaken by Ministry of Defence Ministers during the period April to June 2017, including the class and cost of each ticket:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Minister</p></td><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Destination</p></td><td><p>Mode of Transport</p></td><td><p>Class</p></td><td><p>Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="9"><p>Secretary of State for Defence Sir Michael Fallon MP</p></td><td><p>9/4/17</p></td><td><p>Lille</p></td><td><p>Rail (Eurostar)</p></td><td><p>Business</p></td><td><p>£276.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/4/17-14/04/17</p></td><td><p>Mumbai (Paris to Mumbai) (New Delhi to LHRQ)</p></td><td><p>Civilian Air</p></td><td><p>Business Business</p></td><td><p>£3,200.00 £1,936.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19/4/17-20/4/17</p></td><td><p>Talin</p></td><td><p>No 32 Sqn Fixed Wing</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8/5/17- 9/5/17</p></td><td><p>Copenhagen</p></td><td><p>No 32 Sqn Fixed Wing</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/5/17- 13/5/17</p></td><td><p>Paris</p></td><td><p>Rail (Eurostar)</p></td><td><p>Standard return</p></td><td><p>£368.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25/5/17</p></td><td><p>Brussels</p></td><td><p>Other military fixed wing</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6/6/17</p></td><td><p>Caen</p></td><td><p>No 32 Sqn Fixed Wing</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/6/17- 15/6/17</p></td><td><p>Romania</p></td><td><p>CSAT</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28/6/17- 29/6/17</p></td><td><p>Brussels</p></td><td><p>CSAT</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Minister of State in the House of Lords – Earl Howe</p></td><td><p>18/4/17- 25/4/17</p></td><td><p>Vietnam/Japan/Korea</p></td><td><p>Civilian Air</p></td><td><p>Business x2 Economy x 1</p></td><td><p>£4294.37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17/5/17- 18/5/17</p></td><td><p>Brussels</p></td><td><p>No 32 Sqn Fixed Wing</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Minister of the State for the Armed Forces – Mike Penning MP</p></td><td><p>26/4/17</p></td><td><p>Malta</p></td><td><p>Civilian Air</p></td><td><p>Economy</p></td><td><p>£544.40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Minister for Defence Procurement – Harriett Baldwin MP</p></td><td><p>19/6/17</p></td><td><p>Paris</p></td><td><p>Civilian Air</p></td><td><p>Economy</p></td><td><p>£588.00</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 07/12/2017 17:56:33 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett