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1539944

registered interest
date	07/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Compensation
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 help support veterans who have applied for compensation through the (a) War Pensions and (b) Armed Forces Compensation schemes.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	902085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>I would like to assure you that the Ministry of Defence is committed to ensuring that both the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pension Scheme deliver for those who make a claim.</p><p> </p><p>The Veterans Welfare Service has Welfare Managers throughout the UK and one of its specific roles is to support veterans with the completion of claims for both the Schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, as part of the £40 million transformation project, work is being undertaken to improve the customer experience and make the process easier for veterans to submit their claims.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/11/2022 17:33:42 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1539136

registered interest
date	03/11/2022
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, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October to Question 66895 on Armed Forces: Housing, what estimate his Department has made of the number of service personnel living in Single Living Accommodation in each year since 2018.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	78640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The following table details the number of Service personnel living in Single Living Accommodation in each calendar year since 2018.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Calendar Year</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dates</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022 <br> to date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Count of Service Personnel</strong> <strong>living in Single Living Accommodation</strong></p></td><td><p>93,990</p></td><td><p>96,370</p></td><td><p>98,530</p></td><td><p>100,250</p></td><td><p>96,160</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This information was extracted from the Joint Personnel Administration Management Information System on 4 Nov 2022. Please note all numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 08/11/2022 17:39:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1538539

registered interest
date	02/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Radiation Exposure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 13 December 2018 to Question 200586 on Armed Forces: Radiation Exposure and to National Archives documents Annex G to O92/2534(ASD 26), dated 9 January 1957, and C/6084/PA 1, dated 19 November 1957, where the results of the samples referred to in those documents are held.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	77326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Service personnel who were present at the UK nuclear weapon tests may have had blood samples taken throughout their career. Any records taken either before, during or after participation at the UK nuclear weapon tests would be held in individual military medical records in the Government's archives.</p><p>These medical records are unlikely to be collated in a form related to samples or incidences, and to ascertain what blood and urine tests may have been undertaken by service personnel would require the individual medical record of each of the personnel present at the UK nuclear tests to be located and reviewed. These records are not held centrally and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Atomic Weapons Establishment holds copies of the results of urine radioactivity measurements and blood tests for a small number of individuals where these were included in scientific documentation on the nuclear weapons trials.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 75820 75821 75822 question first answered 08/11/2022 13:27:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1538172

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Officers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving officers of what ranks were dismissed on grounds of sexual misconduct, harassment and abuse in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	76110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Under the Ministry of Defence’s ‘Zero Tolerance to Sexual Offending and Sexual Relationships Between Instructors and Trainees’ policy, all Service persons who are convicted of a sexual offence, or who are placed on the Sex Offenders Register, will be dismissed from the Armed Forces as a matter of course.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Dismissals stemming from relevant sexual offences tried at Courts Martial can be found in the published Court Martial results from the Military Court Centres, available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-martial-results-from-the-military-court-centres" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-martial-results-from-the-military-court-centres</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 08/11/2022 11:43:13 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1538174

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Navy: Sexual Offences
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the oral contribution of 31 October by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence on Royal Navy: Conduct towards Women, Official Report column 611, if he will publish the remit of the formal investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and harassment in the Royal Navy Submarine Service.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	76111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>A formal investigation, directed by First Sea Lord, into the allegations of sexual abuse and harassment in the Royal Navy Submarine Service commenced on 24 October.</p><p> </p><p>The remit of the formal investigation will consider the facts and circumstances surrounding allegations of misconduct and inappropriate behaviour within the Submarine Service and will seek to establish:</p><ul><li>The facts and circumstances of any unacceptable behaviour described in the allegations.</li><li>Whether these specific incidents of unacceptable behaviour have been previously reported to anyone in the Submarine Flotilla. If so, where, how and who they were reported to and what actions have been taken.</li><li>Whether there are or have been barriers to reporting of inappropriate behaviour and, if so, how these have occured and the effect they have had and could have on the subjects and incidents of these behaviours.</li><li>Consideration to how to sustain an improved reporting culture.</li><li>Whether any of the allegations are in contravention of the Armed Forces Act 2006Whether any of the allegations were actioned in accordance with the correct administrative and disciplinary procedures of the day.</li></ul><p>The Royal Navy’s investigation will include an individual from outside Defence to provide external scrutiny. They will work alongside the investigation and are currently being selected for their independence, probity and integrity.</p><p> </p><p>While it would be premature to offer any further comment until those investigations are complete, anyone found culpable will be held accountable for their actions regardless of their rank or status.</p><p> </p><p>Sexual assault and harassment have no place in the Royal Navy and will not be tolerated.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 08/11/2022 17:28:47 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1538255

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Medical Records
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 31 October to Question 62707 on Veterans: Medical Records, what steps his Department is taking to digitise the medical records of veterans who left the Armed Forces before 2010.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	75787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>There are more than three million paper medical records for veterans held in the Crown Archives. They have not been digitised, however a digital copy of an individual record can be provided on request.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 08/11/2022 17:33:05 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1538358

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Testing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on data that was gathered from blood samples taken from servicemen (a) before, (b) during and (c) after their service at the UK nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	75820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Service personnel who were present at the UK nuclear weapon tests may have had blood samples taken throughout their career. Any records taken either before, during or after participation at the UK nuclear weapon tests would be held in individual military medical records in the Government's archives.</p><p>These medical records are unlikely to be collated in a form related to samples or incidences, and to ascertain what blood and urine tests may have been undertaken by service personnel would require the individual medical record of each of the personnel present at the UK nuclear tests to be located and reviewed. These records are not held centrally and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Atomic Weapons Establishment holds copies of the results of urine radioactivity measurements and blood tests for a small number of individuals where these were included in scientific documentation on the nuclear weapons trials.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 75821 75822 77326 question first answered 08/11/2022 13:27:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1538359

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Testing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 38 of the report of the Director of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment on Operation Hurricane, ref AWRE-T1/54, what records his Department holds on urine samples taken from servicemen present at the UK atomic weapons tests in the 1950s.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	75821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Service personnel who were present at the UK nuclear weapon tests may have had blood samples taken throughout their career. Any records taken either before, during or after participation at the UK nuclear weapon tests would be held in individual military medical records in the Government's archives.</p><p>These medical records are unlikely to be collated in a form related to samples or incidences, and to ascertain what blood and urine tests may have been undertaken by service personnel would require the individual medical record of each of the personnel present at the UK nuclear tests to be located and reviewed. These records are not held centrally and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Atomic Weapons Establishment holds copies of the results of urine radioactivity measurements and blood tests for a small number of individuals where these were included in scientific documentation on the nuclear weapons trials.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 75820 75822 77326 question first answered 08/11/2022 13:27:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1538360

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Weapons: Testing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what tests his Department has carried out on (a) blood and (b) urine samples taken from people who served at UK nuclear tests between 1952 and 1991.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	75822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Service personnel who were present at the UK nuclear weapon tests may have had blood samples taken throughout their career. Any records taken either before, during or after participation at the UK nuclear weapon tests would be held in individual military medical records in the Government's archives.</p><p>These medical records are unlikely to be collated in a form related to samples or incidences, and to ascertain what blood and urine tests may have been undertaken by service personnel would require the individual medical record of each of the personnel present at the UK nuclear tests to be located and reviewed. These records are not held centrally and to provide the information could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Atomic Weapons Establishment holds copies of the results of urine radioactivity measurements and blood tests for a small number of individuals where these were included in scientific documentation on the nuclear weapons trials.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 75820 75821 77326 question first answered 08/11/2022 13:27:38 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

1537493

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many women serve in the armed forces.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	74912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her by my hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Sarah Atherton) on 18 October 2022 to Question 60068.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 74913 question first answered 08/11/2022 17:34:06 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name UIN 60068.docx title Ministry of Defence: Females
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones