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61010

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	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 capacity of English, Welsh and Northern Ireland shipyards to build surface warships following the closure of the BAE shipyard in Portsmouth.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	199842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>As part of the wider maritime negotiations with the Ministry of Defence in 2013, BAE Systems took the decision to focus its shipbuilding activities on the Clyde in Scotland. This decision has secured a sustainable future for the UK shipbuilding industry. <br><br>There are a number of commercial yards outside Scotland that could be considered as potential alternatives; however, no assessment of the viability of these shipyards as a potential focus for complex warship building has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 16/06/2014 16:57:36 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61011

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the BAE shipyard in Portsmouth is planned to close.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	199841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>BAE Systems is expected to complete a phased return of its Portsmouth shipbuilding facilities to the Ministry of Defence by the end of this year. It will, however, retain one office building to accommodate around 250 personnel already engaged on support to the Type 26 Global Combat Ship programme in Portsmouth.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/06/2014 16:26:02 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61012

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to ensure that specialised manufacturing and engineering equipment located at the BAE shipyard, Portsmouth, will be made available to potential new users of the shipyard.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	199846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is in discussion with BAE Systems over the feasibility of leaving specialised plant and machinery on the site when shipbuilding in Portsmouth ceases later this year. These discussions are continuing but no decisions have been taken regarding what equipment might be available to a potential new user of the site.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/06/2014 16:24:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61014

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	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 proposals to utilise the current BAE shipyard in Portsmouth subsequent to its planned closure.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	199845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) have been appointed as the Ministry of Defence's marketing agents for the facilities being vacated by BAE Systems' shipbuilding operation. <br><br>LSH have received 19 expressions of interest which they are following up with site visits and/or provision of further information. This phase of the campaign is expected to run until the end of June 2014, when all of the expressions of interest will be fully assessed to determine whether any of them would be an appropriate and compatible future user for the site.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 16/06/2014 16:25:21 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

62250

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with BAE Systems about delaying the closure of the Portsmouth shipyard until the results of the Scottish referendum are known.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	201049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>No discussions have been held with BAE Systems about delaying the closure of Portsmouth shipyard pending the results of the Scottish referendum.<br><br>The Government is clear that Scotland benefits from being part of the UK and the UK benefits from having Scotland within it. The Government is not making plans for independence as we are confident that the people of Scotland will vote to remain within the United Kingdom in the referendum.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 23/06/2014 15:14:56 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

750680

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Foreign Nationals
	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 recruit foreign soldiers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	4409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>To be eligible to join the British Armed Forces individuals must be a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen. In addition, the British Army recruits Nepalese citizens into the Brigade of Gurkhas. Commonwealth citizens are required to have lived legally in the UK for a period of five years before enlistment. In May 2016, in agreement with the Home Office, we announced that for up to 200 Commonwealth citizens per annum this residency criteria would be waived to allow for recruitment into specialist roles in the Regular Armed Forces. This policy remains extant. The Army has received very high numbers of applications for these specialist roles and fills its share.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 4410 question first answered 17/07/2017 14:07:51 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

750681

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Foreign Nationals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department’s policy is on lifting the cap on the number of overseas soldiers recruited to the British Army.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	4410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>To be eligible to join the British Armed Forces individuals must be a British, Irish or Commonwealth citizen. In addition, the British Army recruits Nepalese citizens into the Brigade of Gurkhas. Commonwealth citizens are required to have lived legally in the UK for a period of five years before enlistment. In May 2016, in agreement with the Home Office, we announced that for up to 200 Commonwealth citizens per annum this residency criteria would be waived to allow for recruitment into specialist roles in the Regular Armed Forces. This policy remains extant. The Army has received very high numbers of applications for these specialist roles and fills its share.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 4409 question first answered 17/07/2017 14:07:51 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

750682

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
	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 recruit and retain more soldiers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	4411
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Army continues to offer exciting opportunities and the Armed Forces is the biggest provider of apprenticeships in the UK. Over 8,000 people have been recruited into the Regular Army over the past 12 months and Army Reserve numbers reached over 30,000 as of 1 May 2017, an increase of over 5% from the following year. The Army is currently running the nationwide 'Belonging' recruitment campaign.</p><p> </p><p>We also continue to take steps to ensure that the Armed Forces are a modern employer, including through introduction of flexible working arrangements. This is complemented by the Chief of General Staff's 'maximising talent' agenda which aims to modernise Army career structures, training and education to ensure that it attracts, develops and retains talented people from across society.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 17/07/2017 14:05:30 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

752099

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Army's National Recruiting Centre will support visa applications from people who live overseas and who want to join the Army.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	5006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 17 July 2017 to Questions 4409 and 4410. Commonwealth citizens who are selected to attend an Army Assessment Centre for the limited number of specialist roles for which the five year UK residency requirement has been waived, are provided with a letter of invitation from the Army National Recruiting Centre. This letter can be included within their supporting documentation for any visa applications. Candidates are personally responsible for meeting the Home Office's visa requirements to enter and then legally remain in the UK during the selection process.</p><p>A separate process, which does not involve the Army National Recruiting Centre, applies for the recruitment of Nepalese citizens into the Brigade of Gurkhas.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 20/07/2017 15:55:32 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 17 July 2017.docx title Army: Foreign Nationals
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

757586

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2017
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence Equipment: Audit
	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 audit deactivated (a) vehicles and (b) military hardware.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Royston Smith
	uin	8947
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>All equipment sold by the Ministry of Defence for commercial sale is, where appropriate, demilitarised. Consequently, there is no requirement to carry out an audit.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 13/09/2017 16:12:09 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith