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1138708

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Royal Fleet Auxiliary
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much money the Royal Fleet Auxiliary spent on vessel maintenance in each financial year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	276529
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The amounts spent in each financial year on vessel maintenance for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (rounded to the nearest million) are shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Spend (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">116</del><ins class="ministerial">74</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">56</del><ins class="ministerial">48</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial">96</del><ins class="ministerial">95</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>76</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data for financial years 2009-10 to 2014-15 is no longer held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 17/07/2019 15:08:25 question first ministerially corrected 24/07/2019 16:02:39 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew previous answer version 129491 answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1178654

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Warships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department’s projection is of the number of Type (a) 23, (b) 26, (c) 31e and (d) 45 ships that will be in service in the Royal Navy in each year from 2020 to 2030.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	15002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2020 answer text <p>We remain committed to ensuring the Royal Navy has the ships and capabilities required to fulfil Defence commitments now and in the future.</p><p>Babcock is contractually obligated to deliver five Type 31 Frigates to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) by the end of 2028, and HMS GLASGOW, the first of the Type 26 Frigates, will be in-service with the MOD in 2027. The last Type 23 Frigate will be transitioned out of service in 2035. The first Type 45 Destroyer entered service in 2010, these Destroyers have a projected 25-year life span.</p><p>The Prime Minister has committed to undertake the deepest review of Britain's security, defence and foreign policy. This review will examine how we strengthen and prioritise our alliances, diplomacy and development and will consider all aspects of our defence and security capabilities, including our approach to procurement and maintaining our technological edge. We are considering a number of options to increase the availability of ships during this period.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 2046 question first answered 26/02/2020 12:17:20 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin previous answer version 7809 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1180935

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has allocated from the public purse to the Ajax programme in each year from 2012 to 2019.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	21167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2020 answer text <p>The table below sets out the amount spent on the AJAX programme, rounded to the nearest £100:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FY2012-13</p></td><td><p>FY2013-14</p></td><td><p>FY2014-15</p></td><td><p>FY2015-16</p></td><td><p>FY2016-17</p></td><td><p>FY2017-18</p></td><td><p>FY2018-19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£92,138,700</p></td><td><p>£71,902,200</p></td><td><p>£281,655,700</p></td><td><p>£274,362,100</p></td><td><p>£351,382,300</p></td><td><p>£463,278,400</p></td><td><p>£600,936, 200</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 04/03/2020 16:08:34 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin previous answer version 9747 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1182037

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence Equipment: Costs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes he has made to each defence programme to enable a reduction in forecast costs of £11.9 billion in his 2019-2029 Equipment Plan.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	23543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>Updated cost forecasts represent our latest analysis of the realistic cost of programmes as they progress. The Equipment Plan 2019 has identified a £5.3 billion forecast reduction based on past performance compared to the Equipment Plan 2018.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 09/03/2020 15:02:39 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin previous answer version 10658 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1182041

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence Equipment: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to double the efficiency savings in the Equipment Plan 2019-2029 compared with the previous cost forecast.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	23498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is embedding an improved approach to identifying and developing efficiencies through its Transformation programme, which will allow greater insight into the risks and maturity of efficiencies, including those within the Equipment Plan. We are also taking practical steps in the management of our equipment projects to encourage efficiency, for example improving commercial negotiation and project management skills. The increase in forecast efficiency delivery reported is due to benefits resulting from these changes, including new initiatives identified, the increased maturity of existing plans to reduce cost, and improvements in our understanding of their potential financial benefits.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 09/03/2020 14:57:03 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin previous answer version 10659 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1196264

	registered interest
	date	15/05/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Sentinel Aircraft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in which (a) conventional and (b) counterinsurgency campaigns Sentinel aircraft have seen action since their entry into service; what the original design life of each Sentinel aircraft is, and by how much this can practicably be increased by a life extension project; whether the UK possesses alternative systems that can provide (i) strategic and (ii) tactical surveillance coverage over land equivalent to that currently provided by Sentinel; and how future land campaigns will adequately be conducted if a capability gap is created by the retirement of the Sentinel fleet.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
	uin	47167
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2020 answer text <p>The Sentinel R1 has been operationally deployed in support of a number of operations. Some operations are considered to be both conventional and counter-insurgency; for example operations in Afghanistan (Op HERRICK) and Iraq (Op SHADER). It has also been deployed on operations in Libya (Op ELLAMY), Nigeria (Op TURUS) and Mali (Op NEWCOMBE), all considered conventional operations.</p><p> </p><p>Sentinel was introduced in 2008 in the knowledge that a significant equipment upgrade would be required in the mid 2010’s.</p><p> </p><p>The Defence Review in 2010 cancelled this expected upgrade bringing forward the likely out of service date.</p><p> </p><p>The SDSR 2015 determined that Sentinel should be retained for a further period and set a new out of service date of March 2021. While some work was conducted on the on-board equipment this fell well short of a full system upgrade.</p><p> </p><p>The radar and mission system are now increasingly obsolescent and will face increasing reliability issues as time progresses.</p><p> </p><p>Retaining the capability would have required significant upgrade expenditure and the March 2021 out of service date has been retained.</p><p> </p><p>No identical capability is operated by the UK (though similar capabilities exist in the NATO inventory).</p><p> </p><p>The UK does however have a number of other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities that collect different types of intelligence information, including long-range strategic assets (Sentry, Rivet Joint and Poseidon) and shorter-range more tactically-focused assets (including Shadow, Reaper and Watchkeeper).</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 21/05/2020 17:08:47 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin previous answer version 23097 answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1126175

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in her Department who were transferred or seconded to work (a) in other departments or (b) on other departmental briefs on preparations for the UK to leave the EU, have since returned to her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	253469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>Four Ministry of Defence (MOD) civil servants remain augumenting in Other Government Departments as preparation for the UK to leave the EU. A total of 257 MOD civil servants were augmented to Other Government Departments including those who were augmented in support of Operation Yellowhammer. As at 14 May 2019, 253 had returned to the MOD.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 22/05/2019 15:10:08 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood previous answer version 119453 answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1167814

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Honours
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of staff in his Department in receipt of each category of Honour in (a) December 2018 and (b) June 2019 were (i) from ethnic minority backgrounds and (ii) female aged (A) under 30, (B) 31 to 40, (C) 41 to 50 and (D) aged over 50.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	8593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that the honours system is fully representative of UK society. The proportion of women and people from ethnic minorities receiving recognition on each honours list is available on GOV.UK, and a breakdown of ethnicities of recipients is published on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website at:</p><p><del class="ministerial">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/honours-recipients-by-</del>.<ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fhonours-recipients-by-ethnicity&amp;data=02%7C01%7CParliBranch-ParliQuestions%40mod.gov.uk%7C91281305e22d4dd5ee7a08d761e9b7b9%7Cbe7760ed5953484bae95d0a16dfa09e5%7C0%7C0%7C637085528743185737&amp;sdata=%2BJN33nDlzXY32F9mRq1aRptkbCOvQXMtWrs%2BqVlJ0cM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/honours-recipients-by-ethnicity</a></ins></p><p>Information on ages is not correlated with other diversity factors. We also publish the proportion of honours by independent committee on GOV.UK. The numbers of honours recipients in the Ministry of Defence are very small and vary from year to year. Releasing the requested data would identify the individuals and they have given permission for their data to be used for statistical purposes only.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 05/11/2019 11:55:21 question first ministerially corrected 05/11/2019 16:22:55 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton previous answer version 3986 answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1174355

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Dstl: Animal Experiments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many experiments were conducted on animals by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on behalf of his Department in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
	tabling member printed	Cat Smith
	uin	9721
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2020 answer text <p>The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) makes has an active programme to reduce and replace animal experiments and in recent years we have developed a number of alternative methods for testing that do not require animals. We will continue to look for alternatives so that we minimise our use of animals.</p><p> </p><p>Animal experiments are regulated by the UK Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA). Under ASPA, “animal experiments” are referred to as “scientific procedures”. In accordance with ASPA, Dstl makes an annual report of scientific procedures to the Home Office.</p><p> </p><p>The numbers of scientific procedures using animals conducted at Dstl Porton Down between 2009 and 2015 have been previously reported to the House as in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>8,452</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>9,438</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>9,722</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>8,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6,461</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,124</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3,249</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><ins class="ministerial">For the years 2016 to 2018, the numbers of procedures are in the table below. Data for 2019 will be available later this year.</ins></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Year </strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Total</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2016</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2,747</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2017</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">3,905</ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial">2018</ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial">1,941</ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 06/02/2020 12:34:17 question first ministerially corrected 10/02/2020 10:20:25 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey previous answer version 5248 answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
	tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1127303

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Royal Military Police: Lambeth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many hours the Ministry of Defence Royal Military Police Centre on Upper Tulse Hill SW2 2RS is used per week.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
	uin	255674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>A Royal Military Police Company, Cadet detachment, and associated Cadet headquarters are based at the site. Currently, 77 cadets attend eight hours of training there each week. An additional 388 cadets have passed through the facility between 5 December 2006 and 24 January 2019.</p><p>When there is spare capacity, the site is used for training by other Government Departments and for wider defence purposes.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 255675 question first answered 23/05/2019 14:39:59 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna