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1087101

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	12/03/2019
	date tabled	12/03/2019
	ddp created	12/03/2019 21:26:59
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	12/03/2019 21:37:11 15/03/2019 11:34:02
	hansard heading	AWACS: Procurement
	house id	1
	identifier	231535
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 11:02:45
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, whether he has made a risk assessment of the award of the AWACS contract to Boeing for the provision of the E-7 wedgetail.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231535
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231535
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The E-7 is based on the proven and widely used 737 NG aircraft generation of which nearly 7,000 have been produced since it was first introduced in 1996. The two recent tragic incidents involved the different 737 MAX aircraft generation. It would not be appropriate to speculate on these accidents until the competent regulatory bodies have issued their formal reports.</p>
	creator	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

1090901

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/03/2019
	date	18/03/2019
	date tabled	18/03/2019
	ddp created	18/03/2019 22:54:55
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	18/03/2019 23:06:59 26/03/2019 16:40:18
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Compensation
	house id	1
	identifier	233495
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	26/03/2019 16:05:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2019 to Question 225436 on Armed Forces: Compensation, what criteria the (a) Army, (b) Royal Air Force and (c) Royal Navy uses when issuing compensation payments of £500 or less to armed forces service complainants; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 233495
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	233495
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The correct terminology is &quot;consolatory&quot; awards or payments, which are made in accordance with pan-Government Principles for Managing Public Money. The value of compensation/consolatory payments are determined by reference, as appropriate, to external benchmarks such as the Vento Scale (as used by the Employment Tribunal Service), and informed by legal advice.</p><p>The Army Service Complaints Secretary, of OF5/Colonel rank, holds delegated authority to make consolatory payments of up to £500 and is empowered to delegate such authority to all Decision and Appeal Bodies. The minimum Army rank for appointment to Decision and Appeal Bodies is OF4/Lieutenant Colonel.</p><p>The Naval Service Complaints Secretary has a delegated financial authority to make consolatory payments of up to £1,000 with any above that level requiring approval by the Deputy Finance Director. Governance requires that at any compensation level, advice is taken through Navy Command Finance if this payment would be regarded as novel or contentious.</p><p>The RAF Service Complaints Team has delegated authority to make consolatory payments of up to £500 with any above that level requiring approval by Air Director Resources.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1090902

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/03/2019
	date	18/03/2019
	date tabled	18/03/2019
	ddp created	18/03/2019 22:54:58
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	19/03/2019 15:55:15 26/03/2019 16:40:16
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Compensation
	house id	1
	identifier	233496
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	26/03/2019 16:05:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2019 to Question 225436 on Armed Forces: Compensation, what level command authority is required to issue compensation payments of £500 or less to armed forces service complainants in the (a) Army (b) Royal Air Force and (c) Royal Navy; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 233496
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	233496
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The correct terminology is &quot;consolatory&quot; awards or payments, which are made in accordance with pan-Government Principles for Managing Public Money. The value of compensation/consolatory payments are determined by reference, as appropriate, to external benchmarks such as the Vento Scale (as used by the Employment Tribunal Service), and informed by legal advice.</p><p>The Army Service Complaints Secretary, of OF5/Colonel rank, holds delegated authority to make consolatory payments of up to £500 and is empowered to delegate such authority to all Decision and Appeal Bodies. The minimum Army rank for appointment to Decision and Appeal Bodies is OF4/Lieutenant Colonel.</p><p>The Naval Service Complaints Secretary has a delegated financial authority to make consolatory payments of up to £1,000 with any above that level requiring approval by the Deputy Finance Director. Governance requires that at any compensation level, advice is taken through Navy Command Finance if this payment would be regarded as novel or contentious.</p><p>The RAF Service Complaints Team has delegated authority to make consolatory payments of up to £500 with any above that level requiring approval by Air Director Resources.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
	creator	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1086742

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/03/2019
	date	11/03/2019
	date tabled	11/03/2019
	ddp created	11/03/2019 23:21:33
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	11/03/2019 23:34:46 14/03/2019 14:57:05
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Health Services
	house id	1
	identifier	230824
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	14/03/2019 14:25:04
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Fourteenth Report of the Defence Committee entitled Mental Health and the Armed Forces, Part Two: The Provision of Care, published on 19 February 2019, what plans his Department has to reform the medical and mental health services provided through the (a) RAF, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Army.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 230824
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	230824
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department is currently considering its formal response to the Report. This will be submitted to the House of Commons Defence Committee in April and will be made public by the Committee in due course.</p>
	creator	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

1088465

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/03/2019
	date	13/03/2019
	date tabled	13/03/2019
	ddp created	13/03/2019 22:03:51
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 22:20:36 18/03/2019 17:26:01
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	identifier	231882
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	18/03/2019 16:54:07
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's Void Reduction Plan; and if he will make a statement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Christchurch
	tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231882
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231882
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>A copy of the Department's Service Family Accommodation Void Reduction Plan has been placed in the Library of the House.</p><p>The Department is delivering a Void Reduction Plan to reduce the number of vacant Service Family Accommodation properties from around 11,000 to the optimal 10% management margin of around 5,000 by 2022.</p><p>This will be achieved through a combination of anticipated increase in occupation by Service personnel and families, disposal, demolition of derelict properties, sub-letting to civilian tenants, and wider estate optimisation.</p><p>The announcement in this House on 28 February concerning the Department's revised plans for the future laydown of the Estate under the Defence Estate Optimisation Programme are currently being incorporated into the Void Reduction Plan.</p><p> </p>
	creator	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1091390

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/03/2019
	date	19/03/2019
	date tabled	19/03/2019
	ddp created	19/03/2019 19:55:05
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	19/03/2019 20:05:46 22/03/2019 12:42:08
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	identifier	234125
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	22/03/2019 12:08:14
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has paid out in compensation to service personnel and their families living in Service Family Accommodation due to poor housing conditions in each of the past five years.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 234125
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	234125
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>No compensation has been paid to Service personnel due to poor housing conditions. The Ministry of Defence only allocates properties that meet the Decent Homes Standard as a minimum condition. In April 2017, a compensation scheme was introduced to provide recompense to Service families in two key areas – missed maintenance appointments and significant defects encountered at Move-In to a new property. Details of these payments are given below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2017-18</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Value</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No of Claims</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No of Claims</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Missed Maintenance appointments</p></td><td><p>£102,920</p></td><td><p>3,058</p></td><td><p>£99,570</p></td><td><p>2,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Significant Defects at Move-In</p></td><td><p>£18,480</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>£9,300</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>
	creator	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1091632

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	02/04/2019
	date	19/03/2019
	date tabled	19/03/2019
	ddp created	19/03/2019 21:46:12
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	19/03/2019 21:58:30 27/03/2019 16:43:14
	hansard heading	Armoured Fighting Vehicles
	house id	2
	identifier	HL14676
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	27/03/2019 16:06:10
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of cuts to the defence budget on projects to upgrade armoured vehicles in the UK armed forces.
	session	2017/19 (57)
	session number	1
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 (57) HL14676
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14676
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is committed to increase the defence budget by at least 0.5% above inflation in every year of this Parliament. The MOD has a £38 billion core defence budget which will rise to almost £40 billion by 2020/21. Following the October 2018 budget announcement Defence will now benefit from an additional £1 billion for this year and next. The extra £1 billion for defence, on top of the £800 million increase announced in March 2018, represents a substantial financial boost for Defence and reaffirms our commitment to protecting national security and allows us to invest in priorities.</p><p>We will maintain the overall size of the Armed Forces, including an Army that is capable of fielding a war-fighting division. We are committed to spending over £186 billion on equipment and equipment support between 2018 and 2028. Army Command plan to spend around £30.2 billion on the Army's Equipment over the next decade in comparison to £29 billion at the end of the previous planning cycle. This includes upgrading our Armoured Vehicles.</p>
	creator	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1089480

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	20/03/2019
	date	15/03/2019
	date tabled	15/03/2019
	ddp created	15/03/2019 15:26:28
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	15/03/2019 15:36:14 20/03/2019 16:07:02
	hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
	house id	1
	identifier	233023
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	20/03/2019 15:35:16
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 February 2019 to Question 221840 on Army: Recruitment, when he plans to place in the Library a copy of the media buying brief produced for the Crown Commercial Service for the Your Army Needs You advertising campaign launched in January 2019.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 233023
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	233023
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>A copy of the brief has been placed in the Library of the House, with a small number of redactions for commercial and data protection reasons. I attach a copy to this response for your convenience.</p>
	creator	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1087120

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	15/03/2019
	date	12/03/2019
	date tabled	12/03/2019
	ddp created	12/03/2019 21:27:52
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 16:15:07 15/03/2019 11:33:02
	hansard heading	Ascension Island: Airports
	house id	1
	identifier	231376
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 11:02:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 July 2017 to Question 2035 on Ascension Island: Airports, whether a timetable of works has been agreed with the US Department of Defense and the US Department of State on their plans for interim repair work and a full resurfacing programme of Wideawake airfield on Ascension Island.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 231376
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	231376
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence continues to liaise closely with the US Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State regarding their plans for interim repair work and a full surface resurfacing programme. The DOD's intent is to reward a developing resurfacing contract in late 2019 with an expectation the work will take 24 months.</p>
	creator	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1089474

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	19/03/2019
	date	15/03/2019
	date tabled	15/03/2019
	ddp created	15/03/2019 15:26:13
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	ddp modified	15/03/2019 15:36:00 25/03/2019 17:19:24
	hansard heading	Defence Infrastructure Organisation: Buildings
	house id	1
	identifier	233031
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	25/03/2019 16:43:14
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many properties that are the responsibility of Defence Infrastructure Organisation have (a) mould and (b) asbestos.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Berwick-upon-Tweed
	tabling member printed	Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 233031
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	233031
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>At the present time, 426 Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties have reported damp and mould issues. This is less than 1% of the overall SFA portfolio, and the continued reduction is being actively managed through robust arrangements.</p><p>Given the number of SFA properties built prior to 1970, around 34,300 homes (70%) still contain low risk asbestos containing materials (ACM). These are suspended in artex ceiling coatings, adhesive to floor tiles and external roof facias etc. Under our duty of care, the Ministry of Defence maintains an asbestos register and monitors closely the condition of ACM to ensure dangers are minimised. Of note, the English housing survey of 2014-2015 reported that 76% of all houses in England which were built before 1980 and approximately 18 million homes potentially contain ACM.</p>
	creator	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan