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1693226

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
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 assessment has been made of trends in the level of army recruitment over the past five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	16704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Army continues to implement a number of measures to improve recruitment and regularly assesses the recruiting environment to ensure that demand can be met. January 2024 saw the highest number of monthly applications for Regular soldiers in over six years.</p><p> </p><p>Key points and trends can be found at the below link within the published Quarterly service personnel statistics:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-2024/quarterly-service-personnel-statistics-1-january-2024" target="_blank">Quarterly service personnel statistics 1 January 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 12/03/2024 15:14:32 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1693326

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Aerospace Industry
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 20 February 2024 to Question 13224 on Veterans: Aerospace Industry and Defence, if he will publish the Career Transition Partnership’s annual statistics on veterans they have supported.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	16596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence publishes an annual Official Statistics report covering the employment outcomes of Service leavers who utilised the support of the Career Transition Partnership. The latest figures cover Financial Year 2022-23 and were published on 15 February 2024 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/career-transition-partnership-ex-service-personnel-employment-outcomes-statistics-index" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/career-transition-partnership-ex-service-personnel-employment-outcomes-statistics-index</a></p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 13/03/2024 14:46:43 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1693346

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
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 his Department's answers to written parliamentary questions have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) held centrally in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	16603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>While the information has not been recorded separately, answers to written parliamentary questions are published by Parliament on their website which has a search facility:</p><p>https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/03/2024 16:15:23 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1693347

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many data incidents his Department has recorded in each year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	16604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence recorded the following number of personal data incidents:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>559</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>529</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>581</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>546</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2023</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>478</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Defence’s notified personal data breeches to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) since 2019 are as below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total submitted to ICO</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2023</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) treats all breaches of security very seriously and requires all suspected breaches to be reported regardless of severity. All incidents are subjected to an initial security risk assessment, with further action taken on a proportionate basis.</p><p> </p><p>Training and awareness activities are regularly undertaken to continuously improve staff knowledge and understanding of the data protection principles and the processes and procedures that must be followed to secure data.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/03/2024 13:21:07 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1693349

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Christmas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department held Christmas events in 2023.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	16606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department can confirm that one Christmas event took place in 2023.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/03/2024 13:21:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1693376

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Northern Ireland: Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department are in roles that support the provision of information to Troubles-era inquests in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	16609
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>There are 18 officials in roles within the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Directorate of Judicial Engagement Policy (DJEP) that support the provision of information to Troubles-era inquests in Northern Ireland as all or part of their duties. In addition, there are other teams across MOD providing specialist support to DJEP in providing information to inquests.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information on historical staffing records and cannot provide figures in the format requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 16610 question first answered 12/03/2024 17:14:14 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1693377

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Northern Ireland: Terrorism
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department held roles that required them to provide information to Troubles-era inquests in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	16610
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>There are 18 officials in roles within the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Directorate of Judicial Engagement Policy (DJEP) that support the provision of information to Troubles-era inquests in Northern Ireland as all or part of their duties. In addition, there are other teams across MOD providing specialist support to DJEP in providing information to inquests.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information on historical staffing records and cannot provide figures in the format requested.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 16609 question first answered 12/03/2024 17:14:14 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1693392

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to Question 5212 on Armed Forces: Health tabled by the hon. Member for East Londonderry on 5 December 2023; and if he will place a copy of his Answer in the library of the House.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	16680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>I responded on 11 December 2023 to advise that it would take time to collate the requested information. I have now received advice from my officials that the information is not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. I apologise to the hon. Member for the delay in this response.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/03/2024 10:53:51 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1693449

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Business Services: Serco
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish any (a) performance reports, (b) business plans, (c) annual reviews and (d) other documents relating to the (i) performance of and (ii) relationship between Defence Business Services and Serco in the years between 2011 and 2016.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	16865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>There are no plans to publish material relating to the performance of Defence Business Services or the commercial relationship with SERCO during the period 2011-2016.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 12/03/2024 15:15:08 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1693450

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans UK: Legal Profession
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) lawyers and (b) paralegals are employed by Veterans UK as of 4 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	16866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>Veterans UK is the public facing name given to the administration and payment by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) of Armed Forces Pensions and the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Schemes, and Veterans Welfare Service. It does not exist as an executive agency or standalone entity and consequently does not employ any lawyers or paralegals.</p><p>Legal advice and representation on Veterans related matters is provide by the MOD Legal Advisors and the Government Legal Department and I refer to the answer I gave to Question 1803, Tabled on 14 November 2023.</p><p>The MOD Legal Advisors' lawyers - as Government Legal Department employees - do not distinctly record time involved on veteran-related matters and, therefore, the MOD cannot specify how much work was undertaken.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 12/03/2024 15:16:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson