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1700339

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
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, with reference to the Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy, published on 15 June 2022, whether his Department has appointed a Head of AI Profession.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	21056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The Defence AI Centre (DAIC) is currently onboarding a Capability Lead, AI Talent and Skills. They are expected to be in post in quarter 2 of this financial year.</p><p>This individual will work with colleagues across Government to advance the AI skills agenda while also exploring novel ways to attract talent into the department.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/04/2024 14:43:16 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1700340

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
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, when he plans to publish the Defence AI Skills Framework.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	21057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The development of a Defence AI Skills Framework is underway, and we expect work to accelerate following the recruitment of our Capability Lead for AI Talent and Skills. We are working closely with Digital Skills for Defence (DS4D) and other key stakeholders to ensure coherence with other complimentary skills frameworks within the department, but also across government and with allies.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 17/04/2024 14:50:33 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
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

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

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

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

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