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49851

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
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 increase the number of Apache helicopter pilots for deployment in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	197958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The final deployment of Apache helicopters to Helmand has sufficient pilots and crews to undertake the required tasks. <br><br>Sufficient personnel will continue to be trained to ensure future tasks can be met.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

49021

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions (a) photographs have been taken of intercepted aircraft on Quick Reaction Alert flights and (b) such photographs have been released to the public in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	197167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Photographs are routinely taken during Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) interceptions. There is strong public and media interest in the RAF Quick Reaction Alert deterrent capability. MOD policy is to release a limited amount of non-sensitive information on QRA launches, sometimes including photographs. This provides the public with strong examples of how the RAF is able to respond to this kind of incident. It also provides public awareness of the RAF's ability to defend the UK through the effectiveness of its air defences and to maintain the full deterrence value of the QRA mission. Media enquiries regarding QRA launches also often include requests for photographs. <br><br>Consequently, RAF Operations Staffs in coordination with MOD officials, including the MOD Directorate of Media and Communications, will occasionally consider these photographs for public release. <br><br><br><br>Photographs of a recent QRA mission were released on 25 April 2014. The previous release of photographs of intercepted aircraft from a recent mission was in March 2010; additionally for other QRA information releases in the last three years, MOD have utilised stock images from the Defence Image Library.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 9115 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

49022

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who authorises the public release of photographs of aircraft that are intercepted during Quick Reaction Alert flights.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	197166
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Photographs are routinely taken during Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) interceptions. There is strong public and media interest in the RAF Quick Reaction Alert deterrent capability. MOD policy is to release a limited amount of non-sensitive information on QRA launches, sometimes including photographs. This provides the public with strong examples of how the RAF is able to respond to this kind of incident. It also provides public awareness of the RAF's ability to defend the UK through the effectiveness of its air defences and to maintain the full deterrence value of the QRA mission. Media enquiries regarding QRA launches also often include requests for photographs. <br><br>Consequently, RAF Operations Staffs in coordination with MOD officials, including the MOD Directorate of Media and Communications, will occasionally consider these photographs for public release. <br><br><br><br>Photographs of a recent QRA mission were released on 25 April 2014. The previous release of photographs of intercepted aircraft from a recent mission was in March 2010; additionally for other QRA information releases in the last three years, MOD have utilised stock images from the Defence Image Library.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 9114 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

49129

registered interest
date	29/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's recruitment targets are for its Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	197005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Rt hon. Member to the answer I gave on 24 March 2014, (Official Report, column 56W) to the hon. Member for Makerfield (Yvonne Fovargue).</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois attachment 1 file name 20140324 - Hansard extract on Cyber Recruitment[1].doc title Hansard extract 24 March 2014
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

48785

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the costs of the (a) Baha Moussa inquiry and (b) Al-Sweady inquiry are classified by his Department as being operational and reclaimable from the Treasury Special Reserve.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	196971
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p>The costs of the Baha Mousa and Al-Sweady inquiries were not deemed by the Department to be true net additional costs associated with activity to support specifically authorised operations and were not reclaimed from the Treasury Special Reserve.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

48789

registered interest
date	28/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who all the core participants in the Al-Sweady Inquiry were; and what the name and firm was of each of those participants' legal representatives.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Nicholas Soames
uin	196972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2014 answer text <p>The following Iraqi nationals have been designated as core participants in the Al-Sweady Inquiry as they were either detained, or are related to those who died, during the engagements on 14 May 2004. All are represented by Public Interest Lawyers (PIL):<br><br>1. Hamzah Joudah Faraj ALMALJE<br>2. Mahdi Jasim Abdullah AL-BEHADILI <br>3. Ibrahim Gattan Hasan AL-ISMAEELI<br>4. Kadhim Abbas Lafta AL-BEHADILI <br>5. Abbas Abd Ali Abdulridha AL-HAMEEDAWI <br>6. Ahmed Jabbar Hammood AL-FURAIJI <br>7. Hussein Fadhil Abbas AL-BEHADILI <br>8. Atiyah Sayyid Abdulridha AL-BAIDHANI<br>9. Hussein Gubari Ali AL-LAMI <br>10. Kahz'al Jabratallah Khalad Mulla AL-HELFI <br>11. Hatar Moutashar Zeidan Shamekhy AL-LAMI <br>12. Khudhur Al-Swaiedi <br>13. Jasem Khalloufi Khreibet Al Alyawi AL-JAMINDARI <br>14. Ali Ati Raheemah AL-MOZANI<br>15. Rashak AL-AMSHANI<br>16. Sabrah Maryoosh HUSSEIN<br>17. Kamil Mowat Mohammed AL-MOZANI<br>18. Saad Radhi Khafeef AL-KEEMY<br>19. Yousef Ouda BADAY<br>20. Qassim Ghelan Neema Sahn AL-MAJIDI<br>21. Bareq Mohammed Hussein AL-KHALIFA <br>22. Ahmed Mshatat KAZEM<br>23. Karam Yaseen Laheet Sneshee AL-MOZANI <br>24. Zahra Resan MUHSIN<br>25. Abdelzahra Atti DAWOOD <br>26. Mahud Jihaijeh Dawood AL-MOZANI <br>27. Ali Jaseeb Ghazi AL-MUHAMMADAWI <br>28. Jabra Abdulah MOHSIN <br>29. Nasser Ali Husain AL-DOUGHAAN <br><br>The remaining Iraqi witnesses, most of whom are also represented by PIL, are considered by the Inquiry to be witnesses rather than core participants.<br><br>The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is also a core participant in the Inquiry as it is the Government Department that was responsible for the conduct of the British Servicemen who are the subject of allegations.<br><br>Although the Treasury Solicitor's Department is not a core participant, the Inquiry Chairman has accorded them equivalent status in recognition of the very large number (over 500) of current and former service personnel that they represent in this Inquiry. <br><br>A smaller number of military witnesses were either unrepresented or represented by Kennedy's and are considered witnesses, not core participants.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 07/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

48182

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether military training given to the Burmese Army by UK advisers advises soldiers to refuse orders that could result in human rights abuses.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
uin	196319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>This issue was covered in a panel discussion during the export version of the Managing Defence in the Wider Security Context course that was delivered in Burma, in January 2014, by a mixed civil-military team from the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and one of their academic providers, Cranfield University. The discussion sat within a lecture on Rules of Engagement. An international law academic from Cranfield University, who specialises in the law of armed conflict, set out the legal position with regards to obeying illegal orders and the consequences of disobeying them.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

48185

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
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 readiness to defend its Overseas Territories in the event of attack.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	196321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) regularly consults with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other Government Departments and intelligence agencies, as well as our allies and partners, constantly to review or identify potential threats to UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). In the first instance the MOD seeks to deter such attacks using deterrence measures including, where necessary, permanently based military garrisons or dedicated patrols, visits by deployed military forces, and more broadly the maintenance of world class deployable military forces. Should deterrence fail to prevent an attack, the Department remains confident that it has the necessary contingency plans and high readiness deployable forces in the UK and elsewhere to respond accordingly to any attack on a UKOT.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

47926

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of armoured fighting vehicles which will be (a) returned to the UK, (d) destroyed or (c) sold by the time of the main withdrawal from Afghanistan; and what the costs associated with each of those categories are to date.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
uin	196076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>All armoured fighting vehicles deployed to Afghanistan will be returned to the UK. None of these have been destroyed and none are currently due to be sold.</p><p> </p><p>The information on costs associated with this activity cannot be readily broken out from the wider costs of all equipment and personnel recovery.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

47931

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the names and causes of death of all UK service personnel who died in the course of or in connection with operations in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 2007.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	196154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>A definitive central list of those Service personnel who lost their lives on operations in Northern Ireland between 1969 and 2007 has not been formally produced to date, though the respective regimental or service histories and records are available, together with Defence's central data and the Armed Forces Memorial lists maintained by the tri-Service Joint Casualty and Compassionate Cell. The Department intends to produce a single centrally collated document in due course, however, which will be made available through gov.uk once complete.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn