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63216

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on redundancy payments to (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force personnel in each financial year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	201969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>Expenditure on redundancy payments is not recorded separately by individual arms of service. However, the total of expenditure incurred on Military redundancy payments has been as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Total Redundancy Payments (£million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>Nil</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Figure for 2013-14 will be published in the Ministry of Defence's Annual Report and Accounts 2013-2014.</p><p> </p><p>While reduced recruiting and fewer extensions of service will account for some of the reductions arising from the 2010 Strategic Defence &amp; Security Review decision on the future size and shape of the Regular Armed Forces, a redundancy programme is needed to ensure the right balance of skills for the future is maintained across the rank structures. We are providing as much support as possible to those personnel being made redundant.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that, by 2021-22, we will have achieved cumulative savings of some £23 billion as a result of reductions in military and civilian personnel and greater efficiency in the conduct of non-front line activities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/07/2014 16:23:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 7469 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

63218

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Reserve Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many sponsored reserves there were in the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force service in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	201970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is as follows:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of Sponsored Reserves as at 1 April each year</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1 April 2010</p></td><td><p>1 April 2011</p></td><td><p>1 April 2012</p></td><td><p>1 April 2013</p></td><td><p>1 April 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Sponsored Reserve</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,320</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,370</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,150</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,040</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,960</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RNR Sponsored Reserve</p></td><td><p>2,130</p></td><td><p>2,180</p></td><td><p>1,950</p></td><td><p>1,860</p></td><td><p>1,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Of which Royal Fleet Auxiliary </em></p></td><td><p><em>1,870</em></p></td><td><p><em>1,930</em></p></td><td><p><em>1,690</em></p></td><td><p><em>1,600</em></p></td><td><p><em>1,550</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Army Sponsored Reserve</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>90</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RAF Sponsored Reserve</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><ol type="1"><li>All numbers are sourced from the Joint Personnel Administration by Defence Statistics (Tri-Service)</li><li>All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not equal the sums of their rounded parts.</li><li>All reserves statistics are provisional due to ongoing data quality investigations.</li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p>More detailed information on Reserve numbers, including Sponsored Reserves can be found in the Defence Statistics Tri-Service Publication at the following link:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/314795/uk_reserve_force_cadets_2014.pdf" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/314795/uk_reserve_force_cadets_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/314795/uk_reserve_force_cadets_2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/07/2014 16:54:31 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

63219

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
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, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's contract with Capita in relation to the Army Recruitment Partnering project.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	201968
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>Since January 2011, as part of the Transparency Agenda, central Government Departments have been required to publish information about contracts they award on Contracts Finder. A copy of the Ministry of Defence contract with Capita for the Army Recruitment Partnering project can be found at:<br><br>Recruiting Partnering Contract, part one:<br>https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;noticeid=473310&amp;fs=true<br><br>Part two:<br>https://online.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/Common/View%20Notice.aspx?site=1000&amp;lang=en&amp;noticeid=473847&amp;fs=true</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/06/2014 16:06:49 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

58291

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) rank and (b) length of service was of each RAF engineer (aerosystems) officer who left the service in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	199373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>The information requested constitutes personal data and is prohibited from release under the Data Protection Act 1998.<br><br>However, based on the information held from 1 April 2011 – 31 March 2014, the average total length of service on exit by rank for the Engineer (Aerosystems) officer is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td>Rank (RAF Engineer (Aerosystems))</td><td>Average length of sevice</td></tr><tr><td>Junior Officers</td><td>12 years 0 months</td></tr><tr><td>Squadron Leader</td><td>20 years 0 months</td></tr><tr><td>Wing Commander</td><td>26 years 7 months</td></tr><tr><td>Group Captain</td><td>Insufficient data to provide an average*.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>*The small number of Engineering (Aerosystems) Group Captains during the period 01 Apr 11 – 31 Mar 14 means the resulting ‘average' would be misleading.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/06/2014 14:53:44 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

58293

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the reason was for the time taken to produce the Defence Air Safety Annual Report July 2012 to August 2013, published on 3 April 2014; and if he will make it his policy to publish future such reports within three months of the end of the relevant year.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	199374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Before publishing the Annual Report, it was identified that further analysis of an Air Safety issue was required. Following completion of the analysis, the Report was released for publication. We remain committed to the timely publication of future reports.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/06/2014 14:47:30 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

58295

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) outflow and (b) inflow was for RAF (i) engineer (aerosystems) officers and (ii) aircraft tradesmen in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	199376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>The outflow and inflow figures available for RAF Engineer (Aerosystems) officers and aircraft tradesmen, for each financial year, are set out in the tables below:</p><p> </p><p>The inflow targets during this period were adjusted in line with the requirement to reduce the regular strength of the RAF. The reduction in inflow was partly due to the reduced requirement for engineering personnel following the removal of aircraft fleets such as Harrier and Nimrod.</p><p> </p><p>The increase in outflow relates to the redundancy programme. As an organisation which recruits into the lower end of the rank structure, recruiting remains important to maintain a sustainable demographic.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 17/06/2014 16:05:31 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name Tables as part of the answer to 199376.doc title Outflow and Inflow figures for RAF Engineers
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

48953

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the current establishment is of Joint Force Command.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	197195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2014 answer text <p>There are around 11,000 members of the Armed Forces and around 7,150 UK based civil servants and locally employed civilians in Joint Forces Command.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

48783

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to extend the Duty Holder Concept Regulations to apply to (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	196959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>Under the policy introduced across Defence, a Duty Holder is an official (military or civilian) who owns, manages and is accountable for risks to life of people in his or her area of responsibility. Senior Duty Holders, who head the Department's Top Level Budget areas and Trading Fund Agencies, are required by the Secretary of State's Policy Statement on Health, Safety &amp; Environmental Protection to refer to him any risks that they consider cannot be reduced as low as reasonably practicable.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 9119 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching