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1628528

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Deduction of Earnings Requests from the Child Maintenance Service were declined by Defence Business Services in each financial year from 2013-14 to 2022-23; and for what reasons were they declined.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Wendy Chamberlain
uin	185647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The supporting table details the number of Deduction of Earnings Requests from the Child Maintenance Service that were received and could not be processed in each financial year from 2013-14 to 2022-23, and the reasons they could not be processed.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 24/05/2023 10:09:34 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name 20230519- PQW_22-23_2023_06211 (185647)-Chamberlain- Supporting table.xlsx title Child Maintenance Service Deductions
tabling member	4765 label Biography information for Wendy Chamberlain

1628580

registered interest
date	17/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if their Department will publish an Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for financial year 2023-24 in line with the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance for employers published on 17 April 2023.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	185686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2023 answer text <p>As part of the Ministry of Defence Race Action Plan, Defence has committed to produce ethnicity pay gap reports, for both Defence Civil Servants and members of the Armed Forces. A report for the 2023-24 period will be produced in due course, following the end of that financial year.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 22/05/2023 13:17:03 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1627685

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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, what recent steps his Department has taken to reduce the size of the full-time British Army to 73,000 soldiers; and which regiments will be affected by this policy.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	185055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is reviewing whether it is now right to reduce the Regular Army to 73,000, as planned under Future Soldier. That process is ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>Through an adaptive approach, personnel numbers and force design are determined to ensure Defence remains threat-led and the Armed Forces remain ready to deter and defend the nation should they be called upon to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Any specific policy changes or updates required related to defence capability and force design will be determined once the update to the Defence Command Paper has concluded.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 185056 question first answered 18/05/2023 10:01:58 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1627686

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
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, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his policy on reducing the size of the full-time British Army to 73,000 soldiers on its ability to respond to global threats.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	185056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is reviewing whether it is now right to reduce the Regular Army to 73,000, as planned under Future Soldier. That process is ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>Through an adaptive approach, personnel numbers and force design are determined to ensure Defence remains threat-led and the Armed Forces remain ready to deter and defend the nation should they be called upon to do so.</p><p> </p><p>Any specific policy changes or updates required related to defence capability and force design will be determined once the update to the Defence Command Paper has concluded.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 185055 question first answered 18/05/2023 10:01:58 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1627921

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
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 benefits of allowing Afghan nationals living in the UK who came under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy to enrol in HM Armed Forces.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	184990
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>Individuals with Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK have no immigration restrictions on their employment, however, under section 340 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, the right to enlist in the UK Armed Forces is restricted to British (British citizen, British Overseas Citizen, British Overseas Territory Citizen or British National (Overseas) Citizen), Irish, or Commonwealth citizens, as either sole or dual nationals. The only exception to this legislation is the special and unique arrangement permitting Nepalese citizens to enlist in the Brigade of Gurkhas.</p><p> </p><p>Afghans relocated under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, and any other migrants to the UK, would only be eligible to enlist in the UK Armed Forces if they applied for and obtained British nationality or were a dual Commonwealth or Irish national.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 18/05/2023 10:00:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1626508

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Council: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff work on the Defence Council to investigate Service Complaints.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	184271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The Defence Council is constitutionally responsible for the decisions and appointments made in the Service complaints system, but in practice will delegate the majority of its functions to nominated individuals within each of the single Service complaint secretariats. Before a Service complaint can be considered and a decision made, decision makers are responsible for ensuring an investigation is conducted to establish the facts of the complaint. They may decide to authorise another person to carry out that investigation, but the decision maker retains ownership of the complaint, and it is for them to decide the complaint. While each of the single Services have dedicated teams providing oversight of the Service complaints system, the number of individuals working on Service omplaints varies and is dependent on the volume of Service complaints received.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/05/2023 14:32:06 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1626509

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Complaints
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 trends in the proportion of formal Service Complaints made by women in the Armed Forces.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	184272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence commissioned a report following the Service Complaints Ombudsman for the Armed Forces’ request for an independent investigation into the overrepresentation of women and ethnic minorities in the Service complaints system. The 2020 study sought to better understand the reasons behind this overrepresentation and identified the need for targeted improvements for women in career progression, flexible working and issues around facilities/infrastructure. The report included several recommendations, many of which were taken into the Women in the Armed Forces programme of work, such as Service complaints no longer being submitted through the Chain of Command, but instead through single Service Central Admissibility teams. This will mean greater independence and confidence in the system, consistency in approach and swifter decision making.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/05/2023 14:32:54 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1626510

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many breaches of personal data related to Service Complaints there was in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	184273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The requested information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/05/2023 15:25:33 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1626658

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Holiday Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications of the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruling in the 2017 case of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts & Ors for the calculation of holiday pay entitlement for staff in her Department; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	184428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence includes all overtime in the calculation of holiday pay entitlements, and therefore assesses there are no implications from this Employment Tribunal (UKEAT/0334/16/JOJ) for its staff.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 18/05/2023 10:34:12 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

1626786

registered interest
date	10/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses automated decision making in relation to personnel.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	184513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>While increasing use is being made of automation to support decision-making across the single Service workforce management domains, there are no automated systems currently in service, nor any in development, that will make decisions independently of human intervention. Automated support is streamlining many of the labour-intensive processes which historically have denuded the capacity of single Service workforce planners and managers to focus on resolving people issues as they arise. For example, recruitment processes may use some automation to inform applicants if they are ineligible for a particular role due to their age or nationality, but the system does provide contact details that can be used to discuss potential eligibility for alternative roles.</p><p> </p><p>When recruiting into the Civil Service we may assess candidates using a psychometric test. Tests are taken online, and the test score is calculated from the individual's responses, which are compared with the results of a peer group who took the same test, creating a percentile. Individuals need to reach the pass mark for the test to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 17/05/2023 17:03:56 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan