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1452242

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Warships: Procurement
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 maximise UK content in its future vessel orders.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Dr James Davies
uin	142044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2022 answer text <p>The National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh set out the 30-year cross-Government shipbuilding pipeline. It is a substantial opportunity to create a baseline of volume to encourage industry investment in facilities, infrastructure, innovation and skills. The National Shipbuilding Office will seek to maximise the opportunity for UK industry in this pipeline, wherever our procurement law and international obligations allow, by championing UK shipbuilding, ensuring that our procurements deliver on the policy objectives set out in the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh and creating opportunity for UK shipbuilders wherever possible.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, for Ministry of Defence (MOD) vessels a minimum of 20% weighting for Social Value will be applied to ensure our investments leave a lasting legacy. MOD retains the right, subject to National security needs, to commission ships to be built in UK yards as we have done with type 26 and type 31.</p><p> </p><p>The Refresh also recognises that the value of the shipbuilding sector goes well beyond just building hulls and is spread throughout the entire supporting supply chain. The National Shipbuilding Office will therefore work to encourage UK content for all parts of the shipbuilding enterprise, including: refit and repair, the through-life support to sustain our ships; the battle-winning technologies, systems and sub-systems which underpin our capability; and across the supply chain.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/03/2022 15:30:03 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 60474 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies

1452243

registered interest
date	17/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	National Shipbuilding Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the National Shipbuilding Office to work in partnership with industry.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Dr James Davies
uin	142045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2022 answer text <p>The National Shipbuilding Office (NSO) is already working closely with industry and will continue to do so through the implementation of the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh. The key forum to do this will be through the Shipbuilding Enterprise for Growth (SEG), an integrated and collaborative community with membership from across the UK shipbuilding enterprise. The SEG will be co-chaired by the NSO's Chief Executive Officer and the Director of the Society of Maritime Industries. It will identify opportunities for members to work together, outside of any competitive procurement processes, to take action which will deliver tangible improvements to the shipbuilding enterprise. In addition, the first industry secondee has recently joined the NSO, with further secondees expected to join in the near future.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/03/2022 15:23:23 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 60475 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4476 label Biography information for Dr James Davies

1441360

registered interest
date	15/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	National Flagship: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an estimate of the annual running costs of supporting the National Flagship, including staffing.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	140386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2022 answer text <p>The National Flagship is a cross-government platform. Annual running costs, including crewing, are being refined within the business model; this will be finalised as part of the next spending review.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 23/03/2022 12:25:02 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1437396

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Sweden: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last spoke to his Swedish counterpart.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	133289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>I last had a bilateral call with Peter Hultqvist, Swedish Defence Minister on 25 February 2022. I also met Minister Hultqvist at an event attended by a number of Joint Expeditionary Force Defence Ministers in Copenhagen on 4 March 2022.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 14/03/2022 15:05:13 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 56927 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1437397

registered interest
date	02/03/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Finland: Foreign Relations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last spoke to his Finnish counterpart.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	133290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>I last had a bilateral meeting with Antti Kaikkonen, Finnish Defence Minister on 12 January 2022 during a visit to Finland. We also met at the meeting of Joint Expeditionary Force Defence Ministers at Belvoir Castle on 21/22 February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 14/03/2022 15:05:56 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace previous answer version 56926 answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

1434219

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	National Flagship
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reasons the costs of the National Flagship were excluded from the Defence and Equipment Plan 2021-31.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	127320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>The Prime Minister announced the construction of the new National Flagship on 30 May 2021. This was not included in our costings in April 2021; therefore, it does not appear in the Defence and Equipment Plan 2021-31.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 03/03/2022 16:40:11 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Lord Beamish

1421205

registered interest
date	09/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Hunting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of trail hunting on the defence estate.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	121822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2022 answer text <p>Trail hunting is a legal and licenced activity and is treated in the same manner as all other licenced activities.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 22/02/2022 15:14:43 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1420228

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad
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 compatibility of his responses to Questions 116019 on Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad and 113243 on British Nationals Abroad: Afghanistan; and what his Department's policy is on answering on behalf of hon. Members from outside his Department.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	119769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my previous answer, which was in line with the Ministerial Code; 'Ministers have a duty to Parliament to account, and be held to account, for the policies, decisions and actions of their departments and agencies.'</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, as Operation Pitting was under MOD command, I have provided a response.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 119770 question first answered 10/02/2022 18:00:29 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1420229

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of 31 January and 4 February 2022 to Questions 113243 and 116019 on British Nationals Abroad: Afghanistan, who asked him to respond on behalf of the Prime Minister.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	119770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to my previous answer, which was in line with the Ministerial Code; 'Ministers have a duty to Parliament to account, and be held to account, for the policies, decisions and actions of their departments and agencies.'</p><p> </p><p>Therefore, as Operation Pitting was under MOD command, I have provided a response.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 119769 question first answered 10/02/2022 18:00:29 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1420352

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Vietnam
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he visited the historic battlefield of Dien Bien Phu during his visit to Vietnam from 21-23 July 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	119453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2022 answer text <p>I did not visit the Dien Bien Phu battlefield, or any other battlefield in Vietnam.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 10/02/2022 17:59:50 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry