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1696791

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Veterans: 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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence during the debate on Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records of 28 November 2023, Official Report, column 245WH, whether his Department has examined the 150 Atomic Weapons Establishment files.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	19073
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>I personally examined all 150 records at the Atomic Weapons Establishment on 18 March. I will update the House on plans for their release in due course.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 21/03/2024 17:28:01 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1694130

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what benchmark criteria his Department is using to assess the effectiveness of implementation of the Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy, published in June 2022.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	17398
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is developing specific targets for core enablers that are necessary to adopt AI at scale across the organisation (people, processes, technology, and data). The AI Delivery Group (AIDG) - chaired by our Second Permanent Secretary - is overseeing this work, balancing centrally driven activities with the recognition that some areas of Defence will move faster than others and we cannot risk stifling the pace of innovation through an overly regimented programme management approach.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 13/03/2024 14:57:05 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1694132

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of defence capabilities in his Department incorporate artificial intelligence as of 6 March 2024.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	17400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The term Artificial Intelligence includes a broad family of technologies (from advanced automation to machine learning or symbolic logic-based systems), some of which have been in widespread use for decades. It is therefore not possible to provide accurate statistics on the proportion of Defence capabilities that incorporate such technologies.</p><p> </p><p>While the Defence AI Centre is monitoring over 250 R&amp;D projects across Ministry of Defence that apply different AI technologies to their respective context, we do not currently collect statistics on the proportion undertaken by SMEs. Work is underway to better understand our total AI investment across the Defence enterprise; over time this should allow more granular reporting of supplier metrics.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 17399 question first answered 13/03/2024 12:06:23 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1694131

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of AI-related projects in his Department are undertaken by SMEs.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	17399
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The term Artificial Intelligence includes a broad family of technologies (from advanced automation to machine learning or symbolic logic-based systems), some of which have been in widespread use for decades. It is therefore not possible to provide accurate statistics on the proportion of Defence capabilities that incorporate such technologies.</p><p> </p><p>While the Defence AI Centre is monitoring over 250 R&amp;D projects across Ministry of Defence that apply different AI technologies to their respective context, we do not currently collect statistics on the proportion undertaken by SMEs. Work is underway to better understand our total AI investment across the Defence enterprise; over time this should allow more granular reporting of supplier metrics.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 17400 question first answered 13/03/2024 12:06:23 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1681632

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Merchant Shipping: Crew
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the number of merchant seafarer (a) ratings and (b) officers working for external employers other than the Royal Fleet Auxiliary to deliver contracts with his Department.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	9223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Royal Fleet Auxiliary has seconded fewer than five external ratings and fewer than five external officers to deliver specialist roles alongside its own employees.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/01/2024 17:27:00 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1673956

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence of 28 November 2023, Official Report, column 246WH, if his Department will provide the 150 Atomic Weapons Establishment files to the Defence Select Committee with personal details redacted.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	4440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>I have asked officials to review the 150 items and provide them to me. I will then personally assess them and consider their release into the public domain, as I committed to do during the debate on Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records on 28 November (Official Report, column 245WH).</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 4439 question first answered 05/12/2023 17:13:30 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1673955

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Veterans: 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 oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence during the debate on Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records of 28 November 2023, Official Report, column 245WH, when his Department plans to examine the 150 Atomic Weapons Establishment files.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	4439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>I have asked officials to review the 150 items and provide them to me. I will then personally assess them and consider their release into the public domain, as I committed to do during the debate on Nuclear Test Veterans: Medical Records on 28 November (Official Report, column 245WH).</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 4440 question first answered 05/12/2023 17:13:30 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1674043

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Sexual Offences
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many initial army training staff were (a) investigated for and (b) convicted of sexual offences against recruits under the age of 18 in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	4441
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>I will write to the hon. Member and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 05/12/2023 14:36:48 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1646380

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Empty Property
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) current and (b) former houses owned by his Department were unoccupied in May 2023; and what was the cost to the public purse of maintaining empty houses owned by his Department in the (i) 2020-21, (ii) 2021-22 and (iii) 2022-23 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	190582
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The vast majority of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) is leased from Annington Homes Ltd (AHL). Any properties no longer required for Service personnel are handed back to AHL.</p><p> </p><p>The number of unoccupied (void) SFA properties in May 2023, was 9,167 or 19.18% of the c.47,800 total SFA housing stock in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The total void maintenance costs for the four Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) accommodation contracts covering the North, Central, South East and South West regions for Financial Year 2022-23 was £5,902,941. This maintenance cost was for a total of 9,571 void properties at that time.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is only able to provide the cost of maintaining void SFA for the FDIS accommodation contracts which came into force in April 2022. Under the previous National Housing Prime contract, there was no contractual requirement to record maintenance cost data by occupied and void SFA. This was rectified for the FDIS contracts.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/06/2023 12:20:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1641912

	registered interest
	date	05/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Veterans: Radiation Exposure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications for a nuclear test veterans medal have been received; and how many of those medals have been issued.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	187684
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2023 answer text <p>As of 5 June 2023, 1,425 applications had been received and registered by the Ministry of Defence Medals Office for a Nuclear Test Medal. No medals have been issued as the medal design has yet to be finalised and production is expected to begin later this summer.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 13/06/2023 12:31:08 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck