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1020269

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Typhoon Aircraft
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 11 September 2018 to Question 169196 on European Fighter Aircraft, whether the timetable for the completion of Project Centurion remains at 31 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	199370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Yes.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:04:19 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1020434

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	HMS Victorious
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what sources of information his Department consulted in its assessment which led to the decision not to refuel HMS Victorious.
tabling member constituency	Kensington
tabling member printed	Emma Dent Coad
uin	199483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has considered a wide range of safety, technical and programmatic information in formulating its decision not to refuel HMS Victorious.</p><p>I can confirm that our ability to operate all our nuclear submarines safely is not in doubt.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/12/2018 15:05:08 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4683 label Biography information for Emma Dent Coad

1020451

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
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, by what date his Department expects to complete the transition from Reaper to Protector aircraft.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	199375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Under current plans, Protector will be fully operational by the middle of the next decade. Ongoing planning assumes a seamless transition with Reaper.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:06:20 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

1020463

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many transactions worth more than £1 million Defence Equipment and Support has made since August 2018.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	199317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Details of all Ministry of Defence payments over £25,000 are published on gov.uk as part of the Government's Transparency Agenda. This can be found at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-spending-over-25000-january-to-december-2018. The data includes payments made by Defence Equipment and Support.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:05:46 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1020464

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department paid to PwC for its work on a new staff pay and grading structure and performance management system for Defence Equipment and Support.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	199318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Between 2014 and 2018, as a managed service provider, PwC supported Defence Equipment and Support in developing a new people model, introducing matrix management, implementing new people policies, and developing a pay, grading and performance management system. PwC was paid £43 million to complete this work.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:06:44 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1019846

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many vacant civilian staff full-time equivalent posts Defence Equipment and Support has had in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	198736
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Defence Equipment and Support now operates a balanced matrix approach to the deployment of personnel, which means that people will frequently move to different assignments based on prioritisation of customer needs. Consolidated information on the number of vacancies in the organisation is therefore not held.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:10:17 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1019847

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many vacant civilian staff full-time equivalent posts Defence Equipment and Support has backfilled with contractors or contingent labour in each of the last three years; and what the cost to the public purse was of those arrangements.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	198737
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2018 answer text <p>Contingent labour is only used for instances where Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) does not have the specialist skills it needs in-house, or for urgent requirements where normal recruitment activities would not fill the post in time with a civilian or military employee.</p><p> </p><p>The cost and average number of contingent labour personnel used by DE&amp;S in each of the last three financial years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cost (£ million)</p></td><td><p>27.8</p></td><td><p>42.6</p></td><td><p>27.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Average number (Full time equivalent)</p></td><td><p>254</p></td><td><p>358</p></td><td><p>292</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 12/12/2018 15:08:12 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1019849

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Apprentices
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 Defence Equipment and Support apprentices left that organisation before completing their apprenticeships in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	198738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>Information on the number of Defence Equipment and Support apprentices who left the organisation before completing their apprenticeships since 2015 is in the tables below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Engineering</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Intake</strong></p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Completed</strong></p></td><td><p>54</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>92</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td><td><p>84.4%</p></td><td><p>83.4%</p></td><td><p>92.1%</p></td><td><p>97.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Left organisation before completion</strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td><td><p>15.6%</p></td><td><p>16.6%</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td><td><p>2.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Project professionals</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Intake</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Completed</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>22</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>81.9%</p></td><td><p>84.6%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Left organisation before completion</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>18.1%</p></td><td><p>15.4%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Finance</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Intake</strong></p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Completed</strong></p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>24</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td><td><p>80%</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td><td><p>81.9%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Left organisation before completion</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Percentage</strong></p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>18.1%</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:08:42 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1019851

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average salary increase was for each grade Defence Equipment and Support employee in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	198739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>In 2016, the average salary increase across all grades of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) employees was 1.35%. Given the changes to the DE&amp;S pay arrangements since this period, a more detailed breakdown of this increase would require significant manual analysis of historical records and, as such, an analysis by grade could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:09:23 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

1019857

registered interest
date	04/12/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Personnel Management
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of the new performance management system in Defence Equipment and Support on the provision of support to the armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
tabling member printed	Wayne David
uin	198740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The priority for Defence Equipment and Support (DE&amp;S) is the safe provision of world-class procurement and support to the Armed Forces. The DE&amp;S performance management system, which is designed to enable the organisation to recruit and retain the specialist skills it needs, is just one element that contributes to delivery performance. This performance is measured through an integrated set of key performance indicators (KPI), progress against which is published in the DE&amp;S Annual Report and Accounts. KPI 1 reflects delivery performance to the Armed Forces, and this shows that DE&amp;S continues to achieve or exceed its targets.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 10/12/2018 17:04:50 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David