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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

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

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

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

451940

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	Military Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent personnel were employed by the (a) Royal Military Police, (b) Royal Naval Police and (c) Royal Air Force Police in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The requested information, as at 1 April of each year, is provided in the following table:</p><p><strong>Strength of Trained UK Regular personnel in the Royal Military Police (RMP), Royal Naval Police (RNP) and Royal Air Force Police (RAFP)</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RMP</p></td><td><p>1,700</p></td><td><p>1,710</p></td><td><p>1,720</p></td><td><p>1,740</p></td><td><p>1,720</p></td><td><p>1,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RNP</p></td><td><p>340</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>300</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RAFP</p></td><td><p>1,480</p></td><td><p>1,450</p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>1,110</p></td><td><p>1,140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>1. UK Regular Forces comprises Full-time personnel but does not include Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service personnel and Reservists.</p><p>2. RMP figures do not include approximately 2,900 Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) personnel and a small number of &quot;staff&quot; (Colonel and above) who have a late arm/corps of Provost. Recent MPGS personnel numbers are available in Table 1 of the Service Personnel Statistics report:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499082/Monthly_Service_Personnel_Statistics_January_2016.xlsx</p><p>3. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not equal the sums of their rounded parts.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:35:51 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

451942

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 not formally deployed to an operational theatre visited such a theatre in the most recent year for which figures are available; and in what capacity those personnel carried out those visits.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	26698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 22/02/2016 16:36:23 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

451456

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	USA: Military Alliances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any personnel from Reaper Squadrons 39 or 13 are currently embedded with US forces.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	26409
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>No personnel directly from 39 Squadron or 13 Squadron are currently embedded with the US armed forces. However, from the Reaper force as a whole, there are currently six Royal Air Force personnel embedded with the United States Air Force.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 16/02/2016 15:58:19 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

451457

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	Libya: Unmanned Air Vehicles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, within what timeframe his Department is able to deploy Reaper drones to Libya.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	26528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>I am withholding the information on the deployment timelines of Reaper Remotely Piloted Air Systems as its disclosure would or would be likely to, prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of the Armed Forces.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 16/02/2016 16:00:22 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson