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1713184

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	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 22 April 2024 to Question 22382 on Armed Forces: Housing, what the value is of those compensation claims.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	23285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The value of the 1,724 compensation claims paid to Service personnel living in Service Family Accommodation in Scotland is £132,593.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 29/04/2024 14:18:53 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1713180

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) urgent and (b) routine maintenance and repair appointments for service accommodation properties in Scotland have been missed since 1 April 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	23284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>Since 1 April 2022, 1,302 maintenance and repair appointments for Service Family Accommodation properties have been missed in Scotland. This figure includes reactive repairs, planned maintenance and all other appointed tasks such as damp and mould remediation. Typically, circa 1,116 work orders are raised each month across Scotland and on average, 95% of appointments are met.</p><p>A further breakdown of this figure by priority category (urgent and routine) can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 29/04/2024 14:17:14 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1713165

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	RAF Lossiemouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at RAF Lossiemouth.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	23283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>As at 1 January 2024, there were 2,310 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at RAF Lossiemouth.</p><p> </p><p>Please note the following caveats:</p><p> </p><ol><li>All UK Forces Service personnel comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel , Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve, and Full-Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes trained and untrained personnel.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10. However, numbers ending in &quot;5&quot; have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/04/2024 13:20:07 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1712912

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service family accommodation properties there are in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	23035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>There are 3,140 Service Family Accommodation properties in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 29/04/2024 14:28:07 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1712896

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Full-Time Trade Trained Strength (FTTTS) of the Army is; and when he expects the Army's FTTTS to be reduced to 72,500.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	23034
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>As at 1 January 2024, the Full-Time Trade Trained Strength (FTTTS) of the British Army was 73,190. The Army is continuing to implement <em>Future Soldier </em>which will see a Regular Army of 73,000 by 2025.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 25/04/2024 14:37:07 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1702396

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Tanks
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many tanks are in service with the Army as of 19 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	22814
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>I am withholding this information as it is held by the Ministry of Defence with a view to its publication, at an undetermined future date. This information will be published in the form of the UK Armed Forces Equipment and Formations 2024, which will be accessible here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations.</a></p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 24/04/2024 15:41:17 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1702301

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel live in single living accommodation in each UK region.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	22656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of service personnel living in single living accommodation in each UK region.</p><p> </p><p>SLA is a significant component of the domestic accommodation for Service personnel, ranging from multi-occupancy rooms with shared ablutions, through to high specification ensuite rooms with storage, social areas and kitchens depending on the accommodation purpose and requirement.</p><p> </p><p>SLA is broken into three principal categories:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Permanent</strong>. Accommodation on units/bases to which personnel are allocated for an assigned tour of duty. For some people, this is where they live during the week and they may commute back to their family home at weekends; for others, this room can be their only home in which they have all their possessions and where they live full time over weekends and leave periods.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Temporary (transit)</strong>. Accommodation for visitors, or those on training courses. This can be for one night or for some months where residential courses are delivered for example. Furthermore, a person on a four-month course can be occupying two bedspaces: their home unit room where they have all their possessions and their room on the course. In some cases, a serving person can live in an SFA with their family, occupy a room at their unit during the week and also occupy a transit room for a period. The definition of transit accommodation may also change; if a unit decides to change a block of transit accommodation into permanent accommodation or vice versa then they may do this in response to accommodation demand. Units may designate certain rooms in a permanent block as transit for varying periods of time this allows flexibility to be responsive to accommodation demands that ebb and flow. They can host foreign nations on exercises, accommodate personnel from other bases as overflow or in support of ceremonial activity.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Training estate</strong>. Where units and individuals deploy to exercise, there are no accommodation charges levied for this component of the estate, neither is there a grading system.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 15:13:02 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name PQN_23-24_2024_06241 (22656)- Pollard- Supporting table (1) (1)1.xlsx title Service Pers; Live in single living accommodation
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1702298

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	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 19 October 2023 to Question 202814 on Armed Forces: Housing, how many service personnel were living in grade four single living accommodation in each region of the UK as of 18 April 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	22653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The attached table shows the number of service personnel living in grade four single living accommodation in each UK region as of 18 April 2024.</p><p> </p><p>SLA is a significant component of the domestic accommodation for Service personnel, ranging from multi-occupancy rooms with shared ablutions, through to high specification ensuite rooms with storage, social areas and kitchens depending on the accommodation purpose and requirement.</p><p> </p><p>SLA is broken into three principal categories:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Permanent</strong>. Accommodation on units/bases to which personnel are allocated for an assigned tour of duty. For some people, this is where they live during the week and they may commute back to their family home at weekends; for others, this room can be their only home in which they have all their possessions and where they live full time over weekends and leave periods.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Temporary (transit)</strong>. Accommodation for visitors, or those on training courses. This can be for one night or for some months where residential courses are delivered for example. Furthermore, a person on a four-month course can be occupying two bedspaces: their home unit room where they have all their possessions and their room on the course. In some cases, a serving person can live in an SFA with their family, occupy a room at their unit during the week and also occupy a transit room for a period. The definition of transit accommodation may also change; if a unit decides to change a block of transit accommodation into permanent accommodation or vice versa then they may do this in response to accommodation demand. Units may designate certain rooms in a permanent block as transit for varying periods of time this allows flexibility to be responsive to accommodation demands that ebb and flow. They can host foreign nations on exercises, accommodate personnel from other bases as overflow or in support of ceremonial activity.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Training estate</strong>. Where units and individuals deploy to exercise, there are no accommodation charges levied for this component of the estate, neither is there a grading system.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 15:12:49 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name PQN_23-24_2024_06238 (22653)- Pollard- Supporting table2.xlsx title Service Pers; Grade 4 Single Living Accommodation
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1702299

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel live in single living accommodation (a) overseas and (b) in total.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	22654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>As of 18 April 2024, there are 78,760 service personnel living in single living accommodation. Of those, 1,950 service personnel are living overseas.</p><p> </p><p>SLA is a significant component of the domestic accommodation for Service personnel, ranging from multi-occupancy rooms with shared ablutions, through to high specification ensuite rooms with storage, social areas and kitchens depending on the accommodation purpose and requirement.</p><p> </p><p>SLA is broken into three principal categories:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Permanent</strong>. Accommodation on units/bases to which personnel are allocated for an assigned tour of duty. For some people, this is where they live during the week and they may commute back to their family home at weekends; for others, this room can be their only home in which they have all their possessions and where they live full time over weekends and leave periods.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Temporary (transit)</strong>. Accommodation for visitors, or those on training courses. This can be for one night or for some months where residential courses are delivered for example. Furthermore, a person on a four-month course can be occupying two bedspaces: their home unit room where they have all their possessions and their room on the course. In some cases, a serving person can live in an SFA with their family, occupy a room at their unit during the week and also occupy a transit room for a period. The definition of transit accommodation may also change; if a unit decides to change a block of transit accommodation into permanent accommodation or vice versa then they may do this in response to accommodation demand. Units may designate certain rooms in a permanent block as transit for varying periods of time this allows flexibility to be responsive to accommodation demands that ebb and flow. They can host foreign nations on exercises, accommodate personnel from other bases as overflow or in support of ceremonial activity.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Training estate</strong>. Where units and individuals deploy to exercise, there are no accommodation charges levied for this component of the estate, neither is there a grading system.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 15:12:33 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1702179

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Death
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many young people had their continuity of education allowance withdrawn as a result of the death of a service member in each of the last five years broken down by key stage of education.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	22650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>In the last five years, no young person has had their continuity of education allowance withdrawn as a result of the death of a claiming Service person.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 26/04/2024 10:14:20 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard