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1309451

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Suicide
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many active-duty military deaths there have been by suicide from 1990 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	181210
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>Between 1990 and 2020 (latest data available), there have been 683 coroner confirmed suicides in the regular Armed Forces, the annual numbers have been presented in the Table.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table: UK regular Armed Forces suicide and open verdict deaths by year, numbers</strong></p><p><strong>1990-2020</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> Year All Coroner confirmed suicides</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> All 683</strong></p><p><strong>1990 50</strong></p><p><strong>1991 48</strong></p><p><strong>1992 37</strong></p><p><strong>1993 43</strong></p><p><strong>1994 34</strong></p><p><strong>1995 43</strong></p><p><strong>1996 32</strong></p><p><strong>1997 26</strong></p><p><strong>1998 19</strong></p><p><strong>1999 30</strong></p><p><strong>2000 37</strong></p><p><strong>2001 16</strong></p><p><strong>2002 15</strong></p><p><strong>2003 25</strong></p><p><strong>2004 20</strong></p><p><strong>2005 22</strong></p><p><strong>2006 12</strong></p><p><strong>2007 10</strong></p><p><strong>2008 10</strong></p><p><strong>2009 15</strong></p><p><strong>2010 7</strong></p><p><strong>2011 15</strong></p><p><strong>2012 20</strong></p><p><strong>2013 9</strong></p><p><strong>2014 10</strong></p><p><strong>2015 8</strong></p><p><strong>2016 13</strong></p><p><strong>2017 16</strong></p><p><strong>2018 17</strong></p><p><strong>2019 15</strong></p><p><strong>2020 9</strong></p><p> </p><p>Source: Defence Statistics Health</p><p>1 Figures are for regular personnel and only those reservists who have died whilst on operational deployment. Figures include male and female personnel.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics have been published on gov.uk at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-suicide-and-open-verdict-deaths-index" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-suicide-and-open-verdict-deaths-index</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 23/04/2021 14:01:12 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1310616

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Veterans: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans are in place to ensure that in-person veteran support services are able to reopen as soon as possible during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	184490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>As lockdown restrictions ease, Veterans UK will be able to undertake more face to face work, in line with appropriate guidance to ensure the safety of all involved. Veterans UK continue to review the position and any changes in service delivery will be implemented as soon as is practically possible. Details will be publicised on the Veterans UK web pages on GOV.UK.</p><p>Face to face contact with clients is not always the default position for assisting or managing casework. Requirements are assessed at the initial point of client contact and the most appropriate method of assisting is agreed with clients and implemented. This will continue to be the delivery model going forward.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 26/04/2021 12:18:49 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1310617

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Families
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what additional support has been offered to the families of members of the armed forces during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
	tabling member printed	Dr Lisa Cameron
	uin	184491
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>Service families are an integral part of the Armed Forces community, and Ministers and senior officials have communicated directly with them to provide updates on the support available, and to offer personal thanks for their continued commitment to the Armed Forces.</p><p>Financial support has been provided through additional flexibility on allowances and entitlements, for example, for Service Family Accommodation. Costs incurred for COVID-19 testing can also be reclaimed. Safeguarding guidance and safety planning for those facing domestic abuse has been issued, and mental wellbeing support provided through the launch of the online tool HeadFIT. In addition, the Partner Career Support Programme has been launched and the application period extended until March 2021, in recognition of the impact of the pandemic.</p><p>Specific guidance has been issued by the Department internally and externally, working alongside the Armed Forces Families Federations, information hubs such as HIVES, and the British Forces Broadcasting Service. Organisations such as X-Forces Enterprise, Milspo Business Network, RBLI Lifeworks and Military Coworking Network have also provided support and signposting.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 26/04/2021 13:06:59 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4412 label Biography information for Dr Lisa Cameron

1310638

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Military Decorations: Ethnic Groups
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel from a BAME background have been nominated for a military honour which was not awarded in the last 10 years; and what representations his Department has received on posthumously awarding Walter Daniel Tull a military honour in recognition of his service in World War One.
	tabling member constituency	Bury North
	tabling member printed	James Daly
	uin	184580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>Nominations for military honours which are subsequently unsuccessful are not retained by the Government.</p><p>The Government has received many representations requesting that Lieutenant Walter Tull be awarded an honour in recognition of his bravery. Although his actions were no doubt courageous, it is a longstanding principle of our national honours and awards system not to make retrospective awards. This policy dates back to an Army Order of 1919 that stated that no further awards would be given for services in First World War. This principle remains in force today.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 26/04/2021 13:05:48 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4854 label Biography information for James Daly

1310677

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Oman: Official Hospitality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter did not register the hospitality he received at the Sultan's Privy Council in Oman on 5-6 January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	East Lothian
	tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
	uin	184555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>The hospitality the Chief of Defence Staff received at the Sultan's Privy Council in Oman on 5-6 January 2019 is registered. Transparency guidance for Senior Officials from the Cabinet Office states that Hospitality provided by overseas governments should not normally be included in published returns.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 26/04/2021 10:11:24 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill

1310960

	registered interest
	date	21/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Testing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) health measures and (b) radiobiological monitoring did the Government introduce after the British Nuclear Test Programme ended in 1991 for (i) all service personnel involved in the operations, (ii) all indigenous peoples living near or on the test sites during or after the time of operations, (iii) any others locally present during operations or now living near the test sites.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	185394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>The UK atmospheric nuclear test programme experimented on weapons not Service personnel; the health of all those involved was a vital consideration, as shown by the detailed documented safety measures and radiobiological monitoring that took place during experiments. The Service personnel who took part were not subject to ongoing routine health measures or radiobiological monitoring after the programme ended. To date, any published peer-reviewed research has found no evidence of a general excess of illness or mortality among nuclear test veterans as a group that could be linked to their participation in the tests. Any nuclear test veterans who believe they have suffered ill health due to service, have the right to apply for no-fault compensation under the War Pensions Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In 1968, the UK and Australia signed an agreement confirming that the clean-up of all test sites had been completed satisfactorily. As announced to the House on 10 December 1993, (Official Report, column 421), the Government agreed to make an ex gratia payment of £20 million to the Federal Government of Australia as part of a full and final settlement of the UK Government’s liability for any claims resulting from the British test programme. A copy of the note giving effect to this agreement was placed in the Library of the House. The note also records that the Government of Australia indemnified the Government of the UK against claims from Australian nationals or residents. The Government now regards the matter as closed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 27/04/2021 09:46:51 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1311437

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Scotland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many financial mitigation payments have been made to his Department's personnel based in Scotland in relation to the Scottish rate of income tax; and at what salary level those payments began.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	185920
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>Since Tax Year (TY) 2018-19, retrospective mitigation payments have been made to those Regular Service personnel adversely affected, by £12 or more, through having to pay higher rates of income tax in Scotland compared to their counterparts resident outside Scotland. Not all Service personnel meeting the residency requirement for paying Scottish income tax serve in Scotland, and not all those who serve in Scotland are resident there for tax purposes.</p><p> </p><p>So far, the Ministry of Defence has made just over 14,000 mitigation payments covering TYs 2018-19 and 2019-20. These have been triggered where gross taxable earnings (i.e. not just pay) have been £27,200 or more in TY 2018-19, or £28,193 or more in TY 2019-20. Payments covering TY 2020-21 will be made in June, to those whose gross taxable earnings have been £28,443 or more.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 27/04/2021 09:50:30 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1311440

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Navy: Radiation Exposure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 6 December 2018 to Question 197642, how many submariners have received radiation doses in excess of safe limits in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	185923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2021 answer text <p>No submariners have received radiation doses in excess of safe limits in any of the last ten years.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 26/04/2021 13:07:26 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

1311798

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Officers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officer cadets from the UK who entered training at Sandhurst were from ethnic minorities, in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Halton
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	uin	186134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>The table below shows the Regular Army UK BAME intake to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) from 2010 – 30 Sept 2021, by financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Personnel from the UK</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 19/20</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>FY 20/21 up to 30 Sept</strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Analysis (Army)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Table notes:</p><p> </p><ol><li>The figures are for the UK Regular Army only and therefore exclude Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service, Mobilised Reserves, Army Reserve and all other Reserves, but includes those personnel that have transferred from GURTAM to UKTAP.</li><li>Ethnicity has been extracted from the Joint Personnel Administration System.</li><li>There are a number of people with unknown ethnicity, a proportion of who may be BAME.</li><li>Figures above include those personnel who join the Pre-RMAS (PRMAS) and Leadership Development Course (LDC) schemes prior to starting RMAS. This means that the latest figures may differ slightly from those supplied in previous PQ answers which excluded the PRMAS and LDC elements.</li><li>There were ~20 additional personnel whose primary nationality is not British.</li><li>Figures have been rounded to 10 as a means of disclosure control to protect individuals; numbers ending in &quot;5&quot; have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.</li><li>Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not appear to be the sum of their parts.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 28/04/2021 16:27:05 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1314635

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the Ballymurphy Inquest.
	tabling member constituency	North Down
	tabling member printed	Stephen Farry
	uin	1223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2021 answer text <p>The Coroner's findings were comprehensive and detailed, running to over 700 pages. We are now taking the time to review the report and carefully consider the conclusions drawn. The Prime Minister has made it clear that the terrible events of Ballymurphy should never have happened and has apologised unreservedly for this.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 19/05/2021 14:06:26 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4856 label Biography information for Stephen Farry