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944652

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to publish a land warfare strategy.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	166110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to investing over £17 billion in the Land environment to provide the Army with a modernised warfighting division that includes the transformational STRIKE capability. This investment will support and provide opportunities for the UK's Land and defence sector. To date only Shipbuilding and Combat Air have been selected for a specific sector strategy, other sectors (such as Land) are kept under review. Further sector specific approaches will need to be informed by thorough analysis of the military capability, prosperity, internaitonal, industrial and prosperity benefits and will only be applicable in a very small number of cases.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 27/07/2018 10:45:01 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

944692

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	HMS Ocean
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the final agreed price was for the sale of HMS Ocean to the Brazilian Government.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	166285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>HMS Ocean was sold to the Brazilian Government for £84 million.</p><p> </p><p>The Payment Schedule is subject to review, dependent upon any work supporting the sale being carried out as planned and with the final payment to be adjusted to reflect the final docking costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 166286 question first answered 25/07/2018 15:15:32 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

944693

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	HMS Ocean
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the agreed payment schedule is for the purchase of HMS Ocean by the Brazilian Government.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	166286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>HMS Ocean was sold to the Brazilian Government for £84 million.</p><p> </p><p>The Payment Schedule is subject to review, dependent upon any work supporting the sale being carried out as planned and with the final payment to be adjusted to reflect the final docking costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 166285 question first answered 25/07/2018 15:15:32 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

944695

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 17 July 2018, Official Report, column 241, how many academics were consulted as part of the development of the Combat Air Strategy; and how many of those academics were women.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	166113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>A broad range of academic institutions were consulted during the development of the Combat Air Strategy, including Cranfield University, the Strategy and Security Unit at the University of Exeter, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS), RAND Europe and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Ministry of Defence officials had face to face consultations with 11 academics, three of whom were women.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:17:24 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

944697

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department plans to appoint a new Minister for Defence Procurement.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	166114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>I was appointed by the Prime Minister on 19 July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:14:06 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

944778

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure the Defence equipment plan is affordable.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>We are committed to delivering large, complex and technologically challenging defence programmes to give our military the very best equipment. We recognise the financial risks in the equipment plan and are working to incorporate the recommendations of the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee's reviews of the Equipment Plan 2017 into our management of the Plan. Going forward, the Modernising Defence Programme aims to deliver better military capability and value for money in a sustainable and affordable way.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:16:10 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944779

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment
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 his Department's ability to make the remaining £8.1 billion saving from its equipment plan by 2027.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166092
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>As the National Audit Office reported in January 2018, the Department had achieved £7.9 billion of a £16 billion savings target between 2010 and 2027, and had also identified potential savings to meet all but £0.5 billion of the remaining £8.1 billion over the next nine years. As such, we remain confident and committed to delivering this as agreed, and will report on progress in the Equipment Plan 2018 financial summary due to be published in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:16:49 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944781

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the ability of his Department to deliver the re-baselined cost of £6.2 billion for production of the two new aircraft carriers.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2018 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence keeps costs within the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier programme under very close scrutiny. The final cost of the programme will be subject to commercial negotiations with the Aircraft Carrier Alliance. The overall impact will only be clear once we have concluded our talks.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 25/07/2018 15:13:34 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944782

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	F-35 Aircraft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the timeframe is for his Department to publish the detailed data on the cost of (a) supporting and (b) operating UK F-35 aircraft.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>A summary of F-35 Lightning costs will appear in the annual Defence Equipment Plan 2018, which is due to be published in September 2018. Once the UK fleet is fully established in the UK, operating costs will be incorporated into centralised budgets and set out in the Ministry of Defence's Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/07/2018 13:52:46 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

944783

registered interest
date	19/07/2018
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Trident Submarines: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to ensure that the cost to the public purse of the four Dreadnought class nuclear ballistic missile submarines does not exceed the £31 billion budget.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	166096
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2018 answer text <p>We have delivered our 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR15) commitment to establish the Defence Nuclear Organisation, the Submarine Delivery Agency and the Dreadnought Alliance to strengthen our organisational, industrial and commercial arrangements for the Dreadnought submarine programme.</p><p>The Programme remains on track to deliver on schedule and within the estimated cost of £31 billion stated in the SDSR15, which also set a contingency of £10 billion.</p><p>As the Prime Minister announced in Parliament on 28 March 2018 (Official Report, column 756), the Ministry of Defence has been given access to £800 million in Financial Year 2018-19, which will contribute to the Dreadnought programme. This will enable us take opportunities to drive out cost and risk later in the programme and ensures best value for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 26/07/2018 13:54:19 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 28 March 2018, UIN 904646.docx title Dreadnought submarine programme
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones