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512496

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date	13/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, at which military bases unauthorised entries were reported in each year from 2014.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	33821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2016 answer text <p>The figures for unauthorised entries to military bases include drones and air balloon flying at low altitude over military sites but do not include failed attempts at authorised access. None of these incidents resulted in any significant ramifications for Defence security.</p><p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) treats all unauthorised entries very seriously. They are investigated to a level commensurate with their complexity and impact by Military Police, MOD Police or local constabulary.</p><p>The locations of security incidents of this category recorded within the Ministry of Defence for 2014 are set out below.</p><p>Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth</p><p>HMNB Clyde</p><p>Royal Marine (RM) Stonehouse</p><p>Army Reserve Centre, Bristol</p><p>Army Reserve Centre, Blackburn</p><p>Army Careers Centre, Glasgow</p><p>RAF Halton</p><p>RAF Kirton on Lindsay</p><p>RAF Wyton</p><p>RAF Linton on Ouse</p><p>RAF Brize Norton</p><p>RAF Scampton</p><p>RAF Benson</p><p>RAF Honington</p><p>RAF Mona</p><p><ins class="ministerial">RAF Leeming</ins></p><p>DSTL Porton Down Range Area</p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p>With regard to the locations of security incidents of this category within the MOD for 2015 I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave on 9 February 2016 to question number 25082.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 21/04/2016 15:34:30 question first ministerially corrected 06/05/2016 09:26:55 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton attachment 1 file name Hansard_Extracts__HOC_25082[1].docx title 25082 - Military Bases Security previous answer version 56632 answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton attachment 1 file name Hansard_Extracts__HOC_25082[1].docx title 25082 - Military Bases Security
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

512506

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ministry of Defence Police officers were deployed to support civilian police forces in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	33815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) do not have any designated police stations as defined by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.The MDP work collaboratively with Home Office forces, Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland in locations where the force is deployed.</p><p>The MDP has regularly collaborated to provide support to national police operations. However the information requested will take time to collate and I will write to the hon. Member shortly.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 33814 question first answered 19/04/2016 15:52:09 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

512517

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total (a) budget for and (b) full-time equivalent workforce of the Ministry of Defence Police was in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	33813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The total budget and full-time equivalent (FTE) workforce of the Ministry of Defence Police was as follows in each of the last six Financial Years (FY).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>FTE Complemented numbers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>MDP*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>NUCS**</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2010-11</p></td><td><p>3,661</p></td><td><p>433</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2011-12</p></td><td><p>3,645</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2012-13</p></td><td><p>2,729</p></td><td><p>351</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2013-14</p></td><td><p>2,708</p></td><td><p>253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2014-15</p></td><td><p>2,690</p></td><td><p>254</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2015-16</p></td><td><p>2,666</p></td><td><p>227</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>End of Year Budgets (millions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2010-11</p></td><td><p>154.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2011-12</p></td><td><p>140.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2012-13</p></td><td><p>138.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2013-14</p></td><td><p>135.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2014-15</p></td><td><p>136.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FY 2015-16</p></td><td><p>133.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* Ministry of Defence Police Officers</p><p>** Non Uniformed Civilian Staff</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 19/04/2016 15:30:44 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

512518

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence Police
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ministry of Defence Police stations there were in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	33814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) do not have any designated police stations as defined by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.The MDP work collaboratively with Home Office forces, Police Scotland and Police Service Northern Ireland in locations where the force is deployed.</p><p>The MDP has regularly collaborated to provide support to national police operations. However the information requested will take time to collate and I will write to the hon. Member shortly.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 33815 question first answered 19/04/2016 15:52:09 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

456656

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Redundancy
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 22 February 2016 to Question 26719, what change programmes are underway which are expected to reduce the number of his Department's civilian employees.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	29190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The main change programmes which are in progress and expected to deliver significant civilian workforce reductions are Army re-basing, the US Visiting Forces restructuring, and transformation of Information Systems and Services.</p><p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is also considering further programmes which are intended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of defence outputs and the support provided to the Armed Forces. These include plans to reduce the overall Defence Estate; provision of Defence Fire and Emergency services; transforming the provision of hard and soft facility management, arrangements for infrastructure policing, options for the delivery of the MOD Guard Service and for the provision of shared corporate services. Each of these further programmes may impact on civilian staff. As I stated in my previous answer of 22 February 2016 to Question 26719, the timing and reductions associated with individual programmes are still to be determined.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 08/03/2016 16:47:41 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

456659

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Redundancy
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 22 February 2016 to Question 26719, how many civilian staff posts have been removed to date as a result of (a) the Army 2020 plan and (b) outsourcing logistics to Leidos; and how many such posts are subject to planned reductions over the remaining course of each such programme.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	29187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>The Civilian Structures Project (CSP) was established to align the civilian workforce structure with Army 2020 changes; under this programme, 577 civilian posts have been removed to date. The Army is currently undertaking a study to establish the necessary refinements to Army 2020 capability and structures to meet the requirements of the Strategic Defence and Security Review. Further work on CSP is on hold while this study is conducted.</p><p>In August 2015, 1,130 civilian posts transferred to the Delivery Partner, Team Leidos, under Transfer of Undertaking Protection of Employment (TUPE). Future staffing levels are a matter for Team Leidos.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 08/03/2016 16:49:33 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

456662

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Security Guards
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 22 February 2016 to Question 26688, how much his Department spent in contracts on commercial civilian guarding in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	29125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 07/03/2016 17:39:23 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

455261

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	War Pensions: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Statement by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence of 9 December 2015, HCWS372, on War Pension Scheme - Uprating 2016, if he will make an estimate of the cost of uprating war pensions in line with average earnings in 2016.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	28481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department uprates War Pensions annually in line with the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), ensuring a consistent approach to social security disability benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions. This is in keeping with other public service schemes and reflects the measure of inflation used by the Bank of England. Therefore the Ministry of Defence has no plans to estimate the cost of uprating compensation payments made under the War Pension Scheme in line with average earnings.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 01/03/2016 16:57:58 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

454121

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	War Pensions: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in receipt of a war disablement pension are also in receipt of the (a) age-related tax allowance, (b) allowance for lowered standard of occupation and (c) unemployability supplement.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	28038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence does not hold information on how many people in receipt of a War Pension are also in receipt of the age-related tax allowance, as this is administered by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. However, as at 31 March 2015 (the latest date information is available) there were 41,470* disablement pensioners born before 6 April 1938 who may meet the eligibility criteria to receive age-related tax allowance.</p><p>As at 31 March 2015 (the latest date information is available) there were 116,050 disablement pensioners in receipt of an ongoing pension under the War Pension Scheme. Of these, 10,195 were in receipt of an allowance for lowered standard of occupation, and 6,250 were in receipt of unemployability supplement. All payments made under the War Pension Scheme are tax free.</p><p>These figures can be found on the Gov.uk website at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/war-pension-recipients-index</p><p>* In line with Defence Statistics' Rounding Policy for War Pension Scheme data, all figures of five or more have been rounded to the nearest five.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 29/02/2016 16:51:57 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

454128

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence Review 2015, when he expects to announce further details of the Government's proposed armed forces families strategy.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	28007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK Armed Forces Families' Strategy 2016-2020 was published on 14 January 2016 and is available at the following website:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-armed-forces-families-strategy</p><p>The Strategy will be supported by an action plan which we plan to publish in spring 2016.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 01/03/2016 16:31:15 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry