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388159

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government is assisting the Saudi-led offensive in Yemen by the provision of (a) personnel, (b) aircraft, (c) training and (d) any other type of support.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
	tabling member printed	Tom Watson
	uin	6002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>In addition to UK personnel wholly providing support for British-supplied equipment, we have a small number of liaison personnel in Saudi coalition Headquarters, including the Maritime Coalition Co-ordination Centre that supports the enablement of humanatarian aid into Yemen. There are no UK aircraft or training in direct support of Saudi operations. We continue to supply equipment that conforms to our export criteria.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 13/07/2015 16:22:26 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

388561

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Watchkeeper WK450
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many jobs have been created in the UK by the French-Israeli Thales/Elbit Joint Venture for Watchkeeper.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds East
	tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
	uin	6259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Watchkeeper air vehicle is manufactured by UAV Tactical Systems Ltd, a joint venture between Elbit Systems UK and Thales UK, under a sub-contract from Thales UK, the Watchkeeper prime contractor. The Ministry of Defence has no direct commercial relationship with UAV Tactical Systems Ltd and no estimate has therefore been made of the number of persons employed by the company. The wider Watchkeeper supply-chain sustains high-quality jobs at a number of locations across the United Kingdom.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 13/07/2015 16:28:57 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon

388162

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Veterans: Re-employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former members of the armed forces his Department has re-employed in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Gedling
	tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
	uin	5996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence only holds relevant information on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system dating from April 2007. The following table therefore shows the number of Armed Forces personnel who, having left their Service since April 2007, were subsequently re-employed by the Department in each requested year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial </strong></p><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Number of Service Personnel who left service who have since been </strong></p><p><strong>re-employed (see note 1)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,740</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,810</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,040</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,680</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3,740</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note 1 – Service personnel excludes Full Time Reserve Service personnel and reservists.</p><p>Note 2 – Figures prior to Financial Year 2013/14 are reported as estimates due to a change in methodology used to identify personnel who were re-employed to the Reserves.</p><p>Note 3 - Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, though numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.</p><p> </p><p>The number re-employed refer to Service personnel who left the UK Regular Forces and have since been re-employed as a UK Regular, Reservist, or MOD Civil Servant.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 13/07/2015 16:31:15 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

388160

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Strategic Defence and Security Review
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials are working (a) in his Department and (b) across Government on the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	6006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is focused on fully supporting the Cabinet Office-led Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) as a key priority. Information on the total number of officials working on the SDSR across Government is not held.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 13/07/2015 16:21:09 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

387808

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Middle East: Peacekeeping Operations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) precision-guided munitions and (b) gravity bombs of each type were dropped in Afghanistan and Iraq by British (i) fixed-wing aircraft and (ii) unmanned aerial vehicles since 7 July 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	5654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>RAF airstrikes in Iraq commenced following the Parliamentary vote in September 2014. Since then the RAF has released 198 Paveway IV and 82 Dual Mode Brimstone precision guided munitions in Iraq from fixed wing aircraft, specifically Tornado GR4. During the same period remotely piloted air systems, specifically Reaper MQ-9, released 155 Hellfire and four GBU-12 precision guided munitions in Iraq. These statistics are accurate up to and including 30 June 2015.</p><p>In Afghanistan, between 7 July 2014 and the end of Op HERRICK in late 2014, the RAF released two Paveway IV and four Dual Mode Brimstone precision guided munitions from fixed wing aircraft, specifically Tornado GR4. During the same period RAF remotely piloted air systems, specifically Reaper MQ-9, released 27 Hellfire precision guided munitions in Afghanistan. No such weapons have been released since the end of Op HERRICK.</p><p>There have been no unguided munitions, sometimes referred to as gravity bombs, used in either Afghanistan or Iraq during the period in question.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2015 16:25:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

388163

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Mediterranean Sea: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many refugees the Royal Navy has rescued in the Mediterranean (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of all those rescued.
	tabling member constituency	Kettering
	tabling member printed	Mr Philip Hollobone
	uin	6011
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>To date, the Royal Navy has rescued <del class="ministerial">4,752</del> <ins class="ministerial">4,747</ins> persons under its Search and Rescue mission in the Mediterranean. The Royal Navy does not record whether a rescued person is a refugee or an economic migrant; this is the responsibility of the receiving nation (in this instance, Italy). The Ministry of Defence does not hold overall statistics of all those rescued at sea by other nations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 13/07/2015 16:24:35 question first ministerially corrected 23/07/2015 11:40:32 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt previous answer version 13486 answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1537 label Biography information for Mr Philip Hollobone

388833

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Islamic State
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to defeat ISIL.
	tabling member constituency	Bracknell
	tabling member printed	Dr Phillip Lee
	uin	900920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Members for Redditch (Karen Lumley) and Southend West (David Amess).</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 13/07/2015 16:32:10 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee

387807

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Iraq: Military Aid
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Government has spent on operations in support of Iraqi troops in each month since April 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
	tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
	uin	5663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>Between 30 April 2009 and 22 May 2011, small numbers of UK personnel were involved in training Iraqi Armed Forces under the NATO Training Mission-Iraq, and bilaterally with the Iraqi Navy. These net additional costs can not be separately identified from the costs associated with our broader presence in the Gulf during that period.</p><p>From May 2011 to August 2014, no additional support was provided beyond routine engagement by the Defence Section in Baghdad.</p><p>The net additional costs of operations in support of Iraqi forces since August 2014 can not be separately identified from the costs of the broader countering ISIL activity in Iraq and Syria. These costs between August 2014 and 31 March 2015 were around £45 million, met from the Deployed Military Activity Pool and the HM Treasury Special Reserve, In addition, the replenishment cost of munitions expended in that period was approximately £35 million - the weapons will be replaced in financial year 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 13/07/2015 16:20:08 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

388157

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Hunting
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2015 to Question 5458, how many trail hunts have taken place on his Department's land for each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	5988
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The number of trail hunts that have taken place on Ministry of Defence land in each hunting season (September until April) since 2008-09 is shown below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Hunting Season</strong></p><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Trail Hunts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>222</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>156</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1012-13</p></td><td><p>208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>160<strong>*</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>*</strong>Not all information for the 2014-15 season is currently available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 13/07/2015 16:30:38 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

388564

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on establishing a minimum level of expenditure on defence expressed as a percentage of GDP.
	tabling member constituency	Wellingborough
	tabling member printed	Mr Peter Bone
	uin	6069
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>As announced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Summer Budget 2015, this Government has committed to meet the NATO pledge to spend 2% of GDP on defence in every year of this decade.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 13/07/2015 16:23:59 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	1581 label Biography information for Mr Peter Bone