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517405

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	East Africa: Politics and Government
	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 tackle political instability in east Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	36446
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence does not directly tackle political instability. As part of the United Kingdom's policy of countering shared threats in the region, supporting democratic and accountable governments, and promoting sustainable development, the Department works with other parts of Her Majesty's Government in assisting the countries of East Africa, as well as the United Nations and the African Union, to maintain security and to conduct peace support operations.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 11/05/2016 15:16:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

515347

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	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 the UK is taking to assist its allies in adapting to the recent use of hit-and-run tactics by Daesh.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	35461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>We are aware that Daesh has deployed tactics, especially in Libya, to attack high profile targets like oil fields.</p><p>These, and other attacks on Libyan infrastructure and towns, demonstrate the threat that Daesh poses to the stability of Libya and the wider region, and potentially to the UK and our interests. We need to tackle this threat wherever it arises, and that is why we are engaging the new Libyan government on this issue as a high priority. The UK is working closely with international partners to develop a comprehensive approach to defeat Daesh.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 04/05/2016 14:00:35 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

513605

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2016
	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, to what extent the Royal Navy plans to increase naval patrols in the Mediterranean to respond to the increase in attempted illegal crossings by migrants from North Africa.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	34501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>We are encouraging the EU counter-migration mission, Operation SOPHIA, to increase its role in tackling irregular migration across the Central Mediterranean. Indeed, earlier this week the EU Foreign Affairs Council agreed on the need to evaluate options for increasing SOPHIA's impact on human trafficking networks. This may include broader security support to the legitimate Libyan authorities, for example through potential capacity building. The UK currently has HMS ENTERPRISE deployed in support of Operation SOPHIA, and although we have no immediate plans to increase naval patrols in the Mediterranean, we are keeping our contribution under review as the operation's requirements change.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/04/2016 13:08:38 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

512495

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Falkland Islands
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure a continuous presence of Royal Navy vessels in the Falkland Islands.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	33866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Royal Navy has a permanent presence in the South Atlantic in the form of the Falkland Islands Patrol Vessel, HMS CLYDE, supported by a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship. The Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Ship, HMS PROTECTOR, also operates in the South Atlantic region for periods of the year.</p><p>Other Royal Navy ships continue on normal operations in the Atlantic and would be retasked to the Falkland Islands if required.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 20/04/2016 15:02:39 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

470396

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Deployment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many defence personnel are based overseas (a) at each of Her Majesty's Armed Forces bases and (b) as part of a joint operation abroad.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	30877
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>There are 13,650 British defence personnel permanently based on British military bases overseas. This figure includes those based in Cyprus, Gibraltar, the South Atlantic Islands, Diego Garcia, Germany, Canada, Kenya, Brunei, Nepal and Belize. This figure represents the number of personnel who are stationed at that location. It may differ from the actual number of people working on the base at the time, for example due to deployments. The breakdown of these figures into country and Service is shown below; where countries have five or less personnel, these are rounded to zero and the country does not appear in the table. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) regularly publishes the location figures for both military and civilian personnel, this can be accessed on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>UK Base Country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Navy</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Army</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>RAF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Civilian</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>5,330</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>2,010</p></td><td><p><strong>7,490</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canada</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p><strong>280</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kenya</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>480</p></td><td><p><strong>670</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Brunei</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p><strong>450</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nepal</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p><strong>340</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cyprus</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>1,530</p></td><td><p>740</p></td><td><p>1,190</p></td><td><p><strong>3,480</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gibraltar</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p><strong>720</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Atlantic Islands</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p><strong>110</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Diego Garcia</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>40</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belize</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p><strong>70</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>210</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7,530</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>960</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,950</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,3650</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>(Location of UK regular service and civilian personnel quarterly statistics- 1 January 2016)</p><p> </p><p>The number of defence personnel (military personnel and MOD civilians) on joint operations overseas is approximately 3,600. Joint operations have been defined in this instance as those operations where the UK's contribution is run through the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ). This includes coalition operations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/03/2016 16:35:31 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

470399

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	USA: Military Exercises
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many direct joint training exercises with the US armed forces have been carried out in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	30878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Each year UK Armed Forces conduct a considerable number of exercises with their US counterparts, some single service, some joint. The information requested is not held centrally, but is being compiled. I will write to the hon. Member with the information shortly.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/03/2016 16:03:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

470401

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Australia: Military Exercises
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many direct joint training exercises with the Royal Australian armed forces have been carried out in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	30879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>UK Defence benefits from considerable engagement with the Australian Armed Forces reflecting the strength of the defence relationship between the two nations. Our records show the number of direct joint training exercises that the UK has carried out with the Royal Australian Armed Forces in each of the last five years is as follows:</p><p>2015-7</p><p>2014-8</p><p>2013-6</p><p>2012-6</p><p>2011-5</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 21/03/2016 16:00:14 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454794

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Military Intervention
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military operations the UK has undertaken against (a) Daesh and (b) al-Qaeda in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	28177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>In the last 12 months, the UK has been continuing Operation SHADER against Daesh in Iraq and Syria. There have been no UK military operations against Al Qaeda in the same period.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/02/2016 16:56:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

454112

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Russia: Armed Forces
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times Russian military (a) aircraft and (b) ships have entered British territory in the last 12 months; what the average response time was for the armed forces on each of those occasions; and what the type and model was of the aircraft or ship on each of those occasions.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	28153
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>I can confirm that there have been no unauthorised incursions by Russian military aircraft into UK sovereign airspace in the last twelve months.</p><p>There have been three authorised Treaty inspection flights by Russian military An-30b aircraft in UK airspace under the auspices of the multi-national Open Skies Treaty. On each occasion the UK received advance notice of the aircraft's arrival and it was hosted for the duration of its mission at RAF Brize Norton.</p><p>For information on Russian naval assets entering UK territorial waters I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 24 March 2015 by the previous Minister of State for the Armed Forces (Mark Francois) to Question number 218391.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 29/02/2016 16:57:34 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name 20150324_-_218391_QnA_extract_on_Territorial_Waters[1] PQ2401.docx title Territorial Waters
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

447344

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2016
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Immigration: Cyprus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made in dealing with the migrants who arrived (a) in October 1998 and (b) on 21 October 2015 in the RAF Dhekelia and RAF Akrotiri Soverign Base Areas in Cyprus.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	24080
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p>The remaining migrants, both recognised refugees and failed asylum seekers, from those who arrived in the Soveriegn Base Areas (SBA) in 1998, are currently living in former Service Family accommodation close to the British Forces Garrison in Dhekelia. For those whose claims for asylum have not been accepted and who are unable to return to their country of origin, we continue efforts to identify a third country willing to accept them.</p><p>The majority of those migrants who arrived in the SBA on 21 October 2015 have transferred into the Republic of Cyprus asylum system and are housed in a facility in the Republic. Of those who remain in the Transit Facility in Dhekelia, all have either claimed asylum or are seeking voluntarily to return to their point of origin. Their asylum claims are being considered by the Sovereign Base Area Administration, with assistance from Republic of Cyprus immigration officials.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 02/02/2016 16:04:50 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell