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451610

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the nature and quantity was of the nuclear materials released in terms of (a) its physical state, (b) its mass quantity, (c) the release fraction assumed for each transportation package and (d) the total released radioactivity in Becquerels for each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	26649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence maintains a Defence Nuclear Emergency Organisation (NEO) to respond in the unlikely event of an emergency involving the transport of defence nuclear materials. The NEO organises regular exercises to test the effectiveness of its emergency response planning and arrangements. These include the Astral series of exercises, which are designed to be challenging, and thus simulate the extremely unlikely event of a release of radioactive material from the transport containers. No radioactive materials are used or released to the environment during the exercises. The specific exercise objectives do not require assessments or estimates of decontamination, environmental or other post-incident decontamination costs or of radiological dose uptakes. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) undertook the modelling for each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.</p><p>I am withholding information about the physical state, mass quantity, release fraction and total released radioactivity assumed for these exercises as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 26645 26646 26647 26650 question first answered 16/02/2016 16:05:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

451611

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether an assessment was made of the (a) decontamination, (b) environmental and (c) other costs was before each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012; and what the incremental cost was of each of the major elements for managing the post-incident contamination.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	26645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence maintains a Defence Nuclear Emergency Organisation (NEO) to respond in the unlikely event of an emergency involving the transport of defence nuclear materials. The NEO organises regular exercises to test the effectiveness of its emergency response planning and arrangements. These include the Astral series of exercises, which are designed to be challenging, and thus simulate the extremely unlikely event of a release of radioactive material from the transport containers. No radioactive materials are used or released to the environment during the exercises. The specific exercise objectives do not require assessments or estimates of decontamination, environmental or other post-incident decontamination costs or of radiological dose uptakes. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) undertook the modelling for each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.</p><p>I am withholding information about the physical state, mass quantity, release fraction and total released radioactivity assumed for these exercises as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 26646 26647 26649 26650 question first answered 16/02/2016 16:05:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

451612

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which agency or organisation undertook the release dispersion and deposition modelling and radiological dose assessment of each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	26646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence maintains a Defence Nuclear Emergency Organisation (NEO) to respond in the unlikely event of an emergency involving the transport of defence nuclear materials. The NEO organises regular exercises to test the effectiveness of its emergency response planning and arrangements. These include the Astral series of exercises, which are designed to be challenging, and thus simulate the extremely unlikely event of a release of radioactive material from the transport containers. No radioactive materials are used or released to the environment during the exercises. The specific exercise objectives do not require assessments or estimates of decontamination, environmental or other post-incident decontamination costs or of radiological dose uptakes. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) undertook the modelling for each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.</p><p>I am withholding information about the physical state, mass quantity, release fraction and total released radioactivity assumed for these exercises as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 26645 26647 26649 26650 question first answered 16/02/2016 16:05:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

451613

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the estimated radiological dose uptake was in terms of (a) individual whole equivalent dose in milli-Sievert and (b) collective dose in man-Sievert for (i) Services and his Department's civilian personnel involved in and responding to the incident, (ii) civilian emergency services personnel responders attending and (iii) members of the public during each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	26647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence maintains a Defence Nuclear Emergency Organisation (NEO) to respond in the unlikely event of an emergency involving the transport of defence nuclear materials. The NEO organises regular exercises to test the effectiveness of its emergency response planning and arrangements. These include the Astral series of exercises, which are designed to be challenging, and thus simulate the extremely unlikely event of a release of radioactive material from the transport containers. No radioactive materials are used or released to the environment during the exercises. The specific exercise objectives do not require assessments or estimates of decontamination, environmental or other post-incident decontamination costs or of radiological dose uptakes. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) undertook the modelling for each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.</p><p>I am withholding information about the physical state, mass quantity, release fraction and total released radioactivity assumed for these exercises as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 26645 26646 26649 26650 question first answered 16/02/2016 16:05:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

451614

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) atmospheric stability class was assumed for the downwind dispersion and deposition of the release fall-out; and what the assumed distribution and gross area of ground and surface contamination was in terms of contours versed in Becqueral per square metre in each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	26648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>I am withholding the requested information as its disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security and international relations.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 16/02/2016 16:01:50 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

451615

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Exercises: Nuclear Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012 assumed a post-incident release of nuclear materials from the transportation packages.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	26650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence maintains a Defence Nuclear Emergency Organisation (NEO) to respond in the unlikely event of an emergency involving the transport of defence nuclear materials. The NEO organises regular exercises to test the effectiveness of its emergency response planning and arrangements. These include the Astral series of exercises, which are designed to be challenging, and thus simulate the extremely unlikely event of a release of radioactive material from the transport containers. No radioactive materials are used or released to the environment during the exercises. The specific exercise objectives do not require assessments or estimates of decontamination, environmental or other post-incident decontamination costs or of radiological dose uptakes. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) undertook the modelling for each Astral exercise between February 2011 and November 2012.</p><p>I am withholding information about the physical state, mass quantity, release fraction and total released radioactivity assumed for these exercises as disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice national security.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 26645 26646 26647 26649 question first answered 16/02/2016 16:05:33 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

449796

registered interest
date	02/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether British military advisers have been present in control rooms of the Saudi-led coalition engaged in conflict in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	25327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2016 answer text <p>We have deployed a small number of military personnel serving as liaison officers in Saudi headquarters to provide insight into Saudi operations. They remain under UK command and control. These liaison officers are not involved in the targeting process - whether it be the selection, decision making or directing.</p><p>British personnel are not involved in carrying out strikes, directing or conducting operations in Yemen or selecting targets and are not involved in the Saudi targeting decision-making process.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 05/02/2016 13:21:46 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

437127

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Air Force: Vacancies
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 reduce shortages in the number of trained air warfare personnel; and what assessment he has made of the effect of that shortage on military operations in Iraq and Syria.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	19518
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The term &quot;air warfare personnel&quot; is not recognised within the Royal Air Force. Allocation of manpower is sensibly prioritised to ensure that operational needs are met in full.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/12/2015 12:03:52 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

437128

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Middle East: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Reaper drones are currently deployed in (a) Iraq and (b) Syria.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	19519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>To safeguard operational security I am withholding operational information on the number of RAF Reaper aircraft deployed.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 18/12/2015 12:05:40 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara

421335

registered interest
date	14/10/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Submarines: Accidents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department took to comply with the requirement for transparency set out in paragraph 5c of Annex B of the Fishing Vessel Avoidance UK Code of Practice extracted from SMP 95 dated 5 June 2002 in the incident with MV Karen on 15 April 2015.
tabling member constituency	Argyll and Bute
tabling member printed	Brendan O'Hara
uin	11964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 15 September 2015 to Question number 9422 and to the Westminster Hall Debate on 16 September 2015 (Official Report, column 362WH). The submarine was not aware of the incident at the time and, therefore, did not surface. If the submarine had been aware of the incident, the protocols in place under the Code of Practice would have required her to surface and remain on scene to render assistance.</p><p>As I said during the Westminster Hall Debate on 16 September 2015, the Royal Navy's reporting procedures have been reviewed to enable it to confirm more quickly in future whether a UK submarine is involved in an incident. If it cannot be confirmed quickly that a Royal Navy submarine was not involved in an incident, we will assume that one was. There should, therefore, be no delay in verifying the involvement of a Royal Navy submarine, and the appropriate action in respect of compensation can be initiated within a few days.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name 20150915_Brendan_OHara_Submarines_Accidents.docx title 20150915_QnA_extract_on_Subs_Accidents 2 file name 20150916_WH_Debate_Submarines_and_the_Fishing_Industry.docx title 20150916_WH_Debate_on_Subs_and_Fishing question first answered 22/10/2015 15:19:41 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4371 label Biography information for Brendan O'Hara