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438007

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department takes to ensure that people divorced from serving officers are not evicted from serviced housing before they have found alternative accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	20099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is as flexible as possible in allowing the maximum time to secure alternative accommodation.</p><br /><p>However, only serving personnel are eligible to be housed. In the event of a marriage breakdown, entitlement for a non-serving partner to stay in the property is lost and it may become necessary to free up housing for entitled Service families.</p><br /><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 18/12/2015 12:06:18 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

438047

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on the veterans' accommodation fund in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The £40 million Veterans Accommodation Fund was open for applications in 2014 using LIBOR money to support projects providing veterans accommodation. Successful projects were announced between July 2014 and July 2015, with a total of 16 projects supported. For details of the funding allocated to the successful projects I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave on 2 June 2015 and 23 November 2015 to the hon. Member for St. Helens North (Mr McGinn) to Questions 428 and 16834.</p><br /><p>In addition, the Chancellor announced in March 2015 a new £25 million Aged Veterans Fund staged over five years; this is also provided from LIBOR fines and charities can apply for funding to help veterans born before 1950. The Aged Veterans Fund is now closed for applications, but it will reopen in 2016.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster attachment 1 file name 20150602_428_Armed_Forces_Covenant.docx title 428 - QnA extract on Armed Forces Covenant 2 file name 20151123_16834_Armed_Forces_Covenant.docx title 16834 - QnA extract on Armed Forces Covenant question first answered 18/12/2015 12:27:50 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438048

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff were employed at the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The Joint Service Housing Advice Office has had eight posts since 2010.</p><p>The total expenditure of individual departments, including the Joint Service Housing Advice Office, is not collated at a single point. For example, infrastructure costs (including utilities) are managed through Regional Prime Contracts which do not split out individual units. Similarly, equipment costs cannot be split out. For this reason, the total expenditure of the Joint Service Housing Advice Office cannot be provided.</p><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19809 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:10:34 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438049

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's expenditure was on the Joint Service Housing Advice Office in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The Joint Service Housing Advice Office has had eight posts since 2010.</p><p>The total expenditure of individual departments, including the Joint Service Housing Advice Office, is not collated at a single point. For example, infrastructure costs (including utilities) are managed through Regional Prime Contracts which do not split out individual units. Similarly, equipment costs cannot be split out. For this reason, the total expenditure of the Joint Service Housing Advice Office cannot be provided.</p><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19808 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:10:35 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438050

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff were employed at the Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services (SPACES) is a charitable project working in partnership with Ministry of Defence (MOD) Joint Service Housing Advice Office. There have not been any MOD employees at SPACES since 2010.</p><p>SPACES assists the most vulnerable single Service Leavers to secure appropriate accommodation as they leave the Armed Forces in order to reduce the likelihood of them becoming homeless or rough sleepers. In order to ensure the provision of this service, the MOD has paid SPACES the following:</p><p>FY2010-11 = £170,750</p><p>FY2011-12 = £175,019</p><p>FY2012-13 = £179,394</p><p>FY2013-14 = £179,394</p><p>FY2014-15 = £179,394</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19811 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:07:50 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438051

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's expenditure was on the Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services (SPACES) is a charitable project working in partnership with Ministry of Defence (MOD) Joint Service Housing Advice Office. There have not been any MOD employees at SPACES since 2010.</p><p>SPACES assists the most vulnerable single Service Leavers to secure appropriate accommodation as they leave the Armed Forces in order to reduce the likelihood of them becoming homeless or rough sleepers. In order to ensure the provision of this service, the MOD has paid SPACES the following:</p><p>FY2010-11 = £170,750</p><p>FY2011-12 = £175,019</p><p>FY2012-13 = £179,394</p><p>FY2013-14 = £179,394</p><p>FY2014-15 = £179,394</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19810 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:07:50 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438055

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving members of the regular Army have been transferred to the staff and personnel support branch in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Since 2010 the numbers of trained regular officers and soldiers transferring to the Adjutant General's Corps Staff and Personnel Support Branch, AGC(SPS), each calendar year are as follows:</p><p>2010 - 130</p><p>2011 - 160</p><p>2012 - 50</p><p>2013 - 40</p><p>2014 - 60</p><p>2015 to 31 October - 150</p><p>Where there is a shortage of key personnel, the Army offers a transfer bonus which is payable to soldiers upon successful completion of the transfer into the specified trade.</p><p>From 2010 to 2013, transfer bonus payments of £1,500 each were made to 73 soldiers who transferred into the AGC(SPS) as Military Clerks or Combat Human Resource Specialists. No payments were made from 2014 onwards. The amount spent each calendar year since 2010 is as follows:</p><p>2010 - £52,500</p><p>2011 - £51,000</p><p>2012 - £3,000</p><p>2013 - £3,000</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19816 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:11:35 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438056

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on bonuses for regular Army personnel who have been transferred to the staff and personnel support branch in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	19816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Since 2010 the numbers of trained regular officers and soldiers transferring to the Adjutant General's Corps Staff and Personnel Support Branch, AGC(SPS), each calendar year are as follows:</p><p>2010 - 130</p><p>2011 - 160</p><p>2012 - 50</p><p>2013 - 40</p><p>2014 - 60</p><p>2015 to 31 October - 150</p><p>Where there is a shortage of key personnel, the Army offers a transfer bonus which is payable to soldiers upon successful completion of the transfer into the specified trade.</p><p>From 2010 to 2013, transfer bonus payments of £1,500 each were made to 73 soldiers who transferred into the AGC(SPS) as Military Clerks or Combat Human Resource Specialists. No payments were made from 2014 onwards. The amount spent each calendar year since 2010 is as follows:</p><p>2010 - £52,500</p><p>2011 - £51,000</p><p>2012 - £3,000</p><p>2013 - £3,000</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19815 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:11:35 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle