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451916

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Libya: Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the evidence given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Foreign Affairs Committee on 10 February 2016, how many operations UK Reaper drones have undertaken in Libyan airspace this year.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	26773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government has a long-standing policy not to comment on intelligence matters.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:07:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

451917

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
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 29 January 2016 to Question 24110, whether he plans to publish the terms of reference for the Reaper User Group before the Group meeting on 14 to 18 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	26843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The release of the Terms of Reference for the Reaper User Group will be discussed at the next meeting from 14 to 18 March 2016.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:38:18 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

451919

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles
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 2 February 2016 to Question 25293, whether his Department distinguishes between the proposed use of deployed platforms with capabilities for (a) high value targeting and (b) intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	26842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>With reference to the answer given by my predecessor to the hon. Member for West Bromwich East (Tom Watson) on 23 June 2014 (Official Report, column 99W) we do not distinguish between platforms with different capabilities.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 23/02/2016 15:07:03 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 23 Jun 2014 HOC 198710.docx title Unmanned Air Vehicles
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

451920

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Navy
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 potential effect of the Strategic Defence and Security Review on the global reach of the Royal Navy.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	26711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence on 27 January 2016 to Question 23411.</p><p>http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-questions-answers/?page=1&amp;max=20&amp;questiontype=AllQuestions&amp;house=commons%2clords&amp;uin=23411</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:37:07 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt attachment 1 file name 20160127_23411_QnA_extract_on_Navy_Deployment[1] HOC 26711.docx title Navy Deployment
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

451927

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Iraq: Military Intervention
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 29 January 2016 to Question 24285, how many times (a) Brimstone missiles, (b) Hellfire missiles and (c) Paveway IV guided bombs were deployed against targets in Iraq between 2 December 2015 and 29 January 2016.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The number of weapons fired by each weapon type in Iraq during the period requested is shown below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Weapon Type</p></td><td><p>Number of weapons fired at targets in Iraq</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hellfire</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dual Mode Seeker Brimstone</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paveway IV</p></td><td><p>230</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:31:57 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

451930

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people under the age of 18 in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK were recruited to the armed forces in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	26784
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>No information is held regarding the number of Service personnel under the age of 18 who were recruited in Scotland alone.</p><p> </p><p>The figures for the annual intake of under 18’s into the UK Regular Forces as a whole are summarised below.</p><p> </p><p>Ministry of Defence policy dictates that no-one under the age of 18 can join the Armed Forces without specific parental consent, both for the recruiting process to begin and again prior to joining; nor can they be deployed outside of the UK or to front-line operations.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of people recruited into the UK Regular Forces under the age of 18</p></td><td><p>2, 920</p></td><td><p>2,260</p></td><td><p>2,130</p></td><td><p>2,180</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes: Figures reflect intake for the 12 months ending 30 September in each year. Statistics for 12 months ending 30 September 2011 have not been published, however, statistics for 12 months ending 31 March 2011 are available in Tables 5 to 7 of the Annual Personnel Report:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/280426/1-april-2011.pdf</p><p> </p><p>A detailed breakdown, by age, of the intake to UK Regular Forces can be found in Tables 8 and 8a of our Biannual Diversity Statistics publication:</p><p> </p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-biannual-diversity-statistics-2015</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 23/02/2016 15:08:06 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

451932

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what programmes his Department is developing relating to cyber defence.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The Defence Cyber Programme delivers cyber defence activities for Defence as a whole. It incorporates the following strands:</p><p>Defensive cyber;</p><p>People and training;</p><p>Information and intelligence;</p><p>Strategic direction;</p><p>Offensive cyber.</p><p>Further to this, each single Service has their own cyber transformation programme within which they are undertaking projects to understand and meet defensive cyber requirements specific to each Service.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/02/2016 15:29:17 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451936

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Civilians
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK civilian personnel are currently deployed on military operations; and in what capacity such personnel are deployed.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>There are 84 UK civilian personnel currently deployed on behalf of the Ministry of Defence on military operations. 26 of those are deployed as UK civil servants undertaking a range of essential roles including policy, legal and scientific advice, financial and commercial services, and delivery of the Government's ex gratia redundancy and intimidation schemes for locally employed civilians. 58 of those 84 are deployed as contractors, undertaking a range of support roles.</p><p>In both cases, the roles are undertaken principally in Kabul and locations across the Gulf.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:34:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

451937

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Intelligence Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) intelligence officers and (b) intelligence analysts served in each branch of the armed forces in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Details of the number of intelligence officers and analysts by Service as at 1 January during the last six years are set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Intelligence Officers</strong></p></td><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Intelligence Analysts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>All Services Total</p></td><td><p>Royal Navy/ Royal Marines</p></td><td><p>Army</p></td><td><p>Royal Air Force</p></td><td><p>All Services Total</p></td><td><p>Royal Navy/ Royal Marines</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Army</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Royal Air Force</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,230</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>850</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>720</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,310</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>890</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>720</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>280</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,420</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,410</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>690</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>250</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,400</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>710</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,400</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>820</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1</p></td><td colspan="10" rowspan="2"><p>The Royal Navy does not have a specific marker for those who engage in intelligence analysis in their role, and therefore cannot provide a figure on this amount.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2</p></td><td colspan="10"><p>The Intelligence Officer Specialisation did not exist until February 2011 within the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy/Royal Marines and All Services total have therefore been marked as not available.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3</p></td><td colspan="10" rowspan="2"><p>For Royal Navy/Royal Marines, Intelligence Officer does not fully encompass everyone who engages in intelligence work, as not all have an identifiable marker.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>4</p></td><td colspan="9"><p>Figures for the Army exclude those on the Long Service List and Senior Soldier Continuity Posts, and Officers with a paid rank of Colonel or above.</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5</p></td><td colspan="7"><p>Army Other Ranks personnel have been grouped as Intelligence Analysts.</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6</p></td><td colspan="10"><p>The data provided is confined solely to trained full-time UK Regular Forces and excludes Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service and part-time reservist personnel.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 24/02/2016 15:27:45 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

451938

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Intelligence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) military and (b) civilian personnel were employed within Defence Intelligence in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The strength of Defence Intelligence for Service and civilian personnel at year end for the years 2010-11 to 2015-16 was:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Service Personnel</p></td><td><p>Civilians</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16 (at January 2016)</p></td><td><p>2,137</p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,332</p></td><td><p>1,365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,412</p></td><td><p>1,323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2,458</p></td><td><p>1,306</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2,323</p></td><td><p>1,132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2,330</p></td><td><p>1,326</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:35:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry