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426750

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Decorations
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 November 2015 to Question 13951, which foreign military awards have been approved for members of the UK armed forces to wear; and what criteria are applied in determining such approval.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	15238
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK Armed Forces have a distinguished history of serving with great courage and professionalism in a wide-range of conflict situations; over the years various foreign military awards have been approved for acceptance and some of these have also been approved for wearing. A full list of the qualifying criteria for, and permission to wear, campaign medals, foreign medals and medals awarded by international organisations is available in Joint Service Publication 761 which can be found at the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396186/JSP761_honours_awards.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396186/JSP761_honours_awards.pdf</a></p><br /><p>Information on the numbers of UK Service personnel or veterans who have been awarded the NATO Africa Medal is not held by the Ministry of Defence as this is administered by NATO.</p><br /><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15240 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:49:48 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

426751

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	NATO: Military Decorations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) current and (b) former members of the UK armed forces have been awarded the NATO Africa Medal.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	15240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK Armed Forces have a distinguished history of serving with great courage and professionalism in a wide-range of conflict situations; over the years various foreign military awards have been approved for acceptance and some of these have also been approved for wearing. A full list of the qualifying criteria for, and permission to wear, campaign medals, foreign medals and medals awarded by international organisations is available in Joint Service Publication 761 which can be found at the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396186/JSP761_honours_awards.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396186/JSP761_honours_awards.pdf</a></p><br /><p>Information on the numbers of UK Service personnel or veterans who have been awarded the NATO Africa Medal is not held by the Ministry of Defence as this is administered by NATO.</p><br /><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15238 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:49:48 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

426759

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Families
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 implement the family test.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	15341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <br /><br /><p>The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. The Department for Work and Pensions published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) follows that guidance: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368894/family-test-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368894/family-test-guidance.pdf</a></p><br /><p>The Family Test is an integral part of the policy making process and is applied in a proportionate way in the development of all new policy in line with the Family Test guidance. While the guidance states that Departments should consider publishing assessments carried out under the Test, there is no requirement to do so.</p><br /><br /><p>Over the last five years the MOD has significantly increased the support provided to the families of Service personnel. For details of these I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 June 2015 to Question 1192 to the hon. Member for Enfield Southgate (Mr Burrowes): <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-04/1192/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-04/1192/</a></p><br /><p>Since I provided that answer I was delighted to announce to the Confederation of Service Charities (COBSEO) Annual General Meeting on 30 September our plans for the first UK Armed Forces Families Strategy, the aim of which is to provide a clearer focus for our efforts to understand, value and empower the families of our Armed Forces personnel. This Strategy will build on the successes outlined in my answer by addressing inconsistencies and incoherence in MOD policies and by improving our communications to Armed Forces families.</p><br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15331 15350 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:29:33 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

426760

registered interest
date	06/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of his Department's policies have been assessed against the family test; what steps he has taken to publish the outcome of such assessments that have been carried out; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	15331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <br /><br /><p>The Family Test was announced by the Prime Minister in August 2014 and introduced in October 2014. The Department for Work and Pensions published guidance for Departments and officials on how the test should be applied when formulating policy and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) follows that guidance: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368894/family-test-guidance.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/368894/family-test-guidance.pdf</a></p><br /><p>The Family Test is an integral part of the policy making process and is applied in a proportionate way in the development of all new policy in line with the Family Test guidance. While the guidance states that Departments should consider publishing assessments carried out under the Test, there is no requirement to do so.</p><br /><br /><p>Over the last five years the MOD has significantly increased the support provided to the families of Service personnel. For details of these I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 June 2015 to Question 1192 to the hon. Member for Enfield Southgate (Mr Burrowes): <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-04/1192/" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-04/1192/</a></p><br /><p>Since I provided that answer I was delighted to announce to the Confederation of Service Charities (COBSEO) Annual General Meeting on 30 September our plans for the first UK Armed Forces Families Strategy, the aim of which is to provide a clearer focus for our efforts to understand, value and empower the families of our Armed Forces personnel. This Strategy will build on the successes outlined in my answer by addressing inconsistencies and incoherence in MOD policies and by improving our communications to Armed Forces families.</p><br /><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15341 15350 question first answered 16/11/2015 16:29:33 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

426499

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Robert Jolleys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the reasons were for the Ministry of Defence Police withholding a Special Investigation Branch report of Lt. Col. Jolleys' circumstances from a fraud trial in which he was convicted of failing to declare changes to his circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	15053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>A Special Investigation Branch Report was served as evidence at Lt Col Jolleys' trial and was provided to his Defence team pre-trial.</p><p>It will take time to gather the further information and I will write to the hon. Member shortly.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15054 15055 question first answered 10/11/2015 16:25:16 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

426500

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Robert Jolleys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the reasons were for the Ministry of Defence Police denying Lt. Col. Jolley his own military records for him to use at his trial in 2013.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	15054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>A Special Investigation Branch Report was served as evidence at Lt Col Jolleys' trial and was provided to his Defence team pre-trial.</p><p>It will take time to gather the further information and I will write to the hon. Member shortly.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15053 15055 question first answered 10/11/2015 16:25:16 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

426501

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Robert Jolleys
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the reasons were for the Ministry of Defence Police failing to disclose army doctors', chaplains', commanding officers' and Lt. Col. Jolleys' own statement of his circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Ribble Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Evans
uin	15055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>A Special Investigation Branch Report was served as evidence at Lt Col Jolleys' trial and was provided to his Defence team pre-trial.</p><p>It will take time to gather the further information and I will write to the hon. Member shortly.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 15053 15054 question first answered 10/11/2015 16:25:16 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	474 label Biography information for Mr Nigel Evans

426121

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former service personnel are in receipt of Armed Forces Independence Payments.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	14797
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>As at 31 October 2015, there were 869 Service and former Service personnel in receipt of Armed Forces Independence Payments.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 09/11/2015 16:15:29 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

426244

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Senior Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	14894
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>Where external recruitment to Senior Civil Service (SCS) posts is required, recruitment agencies and head-hunters may be engaged to assist with campaigns. The costs of agency services include search, advertisement, response handling, assessment and support to selection panels.</p><br /><p>Details of spend on SCS recruitment with external agencies and head-hunters, by calendar year, are as follows:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Spend</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£121,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£144,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£284,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£373,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£583,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 (to 31 March)</p></td><td><p>£33,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Note: information held by the Ministry of Defence extends to 31 March 2015 only; from 1 April 2015 recruitment for SCS posts has been managed centrally by Civil Service Resourcing.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 10/11/2015 16:28:00 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

426255

registered interest
date	04/11/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	War Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people are in receipt of a war widow or widower pension.
tabling member constituency	Eastleigh
tabling member printed	Mims Davies
uin	14971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>As at 31 March 2015, the latest date for which data was available, the number of people in receipt of a War Widow or Widower Pension was 20,535.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 09/11/2015 16:11:44 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies