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1544354

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Intellectual Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with regard to the Fleet Solid Support Ship Contract, whether any aspects of intellectual property will be transferred to the UK under that contract.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The Fleet Solid Support ships have been designed in the UK by BMT, a leading firm of Naval Architects. Intellectual Property rights in the design rest with BMT. The terms of the contract will give the Ministry of Defence free user rights under the FSS contract to operate, support and maintain the vessels through life.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:37:00 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544382

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Challenger Tanks
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of Challenger 2 main battle tanks due to be upgraded to Challenger 3 in the context of the War in Ukraine; and whether he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	93491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for the Armed Forces (James Heappey) on 14 March 2022 to Question 135702 to the hon. Member for Stockton South (Matt Vickers).</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 12:37:25 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name UIN 135702.docx title Tanks: Procurement
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1544582

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Harland and Wolff: Fleet Solid Support Ships
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 November to Question 89762 on Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts, whether his Department has asked Harland & Wolff what the average duration of the 1200 shipbuilding jobs will be.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The duration of contracts offered to employees of companies contracted by the Ministry of Defence is a matter for those companies.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:12:38 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544583

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Testing
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 18 November to Question 87760 on Ajax Vehicles: Testing, whether any neurological tests of any sort are required of Army crews as part of user validation trials for Ajax family vehicles.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The trials are conducted under a safe system of work endorsed by the Ajax Safety Assurance Panel. This safety protocol includes the use of the live monitoring of crew noise and vibration exposure levels to ensure exposure remains within the appropriate legislative action value.</p><p> </p><p>In my previous Answer of 18 November to Question 87760 I stated that Army crews are not required to undertake neurological tests as part of the trial protocol. It has now become clear that the enhanced audiometric surveillance used to assure the User Validation Trials’ safety protocol in fact meets the definition of neurological testing. The enhanced audiometric surveillance (hearing tests) are tests of which the House is already aware since the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 May 2022 (HCW42).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 93474 question first answered 25/11/2022 12:39:43 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544584

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ajax Vehicles: Testing
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 18 November to Question 87759 on Ajax Vehicles: Testing, what protocols are in place in case noise levels exceed values outlined in the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 and the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The trials are conducted under a safe system of work endorsed by the Ajax Safety Assurance Panel. This safety protocol includes the use of the live monitoring of crew noise and vibration exposure levels to ensure exposure remains within the appropriate legislative action value.</p><p> </p><p>In my previous Answer of 18 November to Question 87760 I stated that Army crews are not required to undertake neurological tests as part of the trial protocol. It has now become clear that the enhanced audiometric surveillance used to assure the User Validation Trials’ safety protocol in fact meets the definition of neurological testing. The enhanced audiometric surveillance (hearing tests) are tests of which the House is already aware since the Written Ministerial Statement of 19 May 2022 (HCW42).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk grouped question UIN 93473 question first answered 25/11/2022 12:39:43 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544587

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, why the design contract for the Fleet Solid Support Ship was paid to Navantia if the Fleet Solid Support Ship design was undertaken by BMT.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The structure of the winning team is a matter purely for the companies themselves.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:13:21 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544589

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the £5 million design contract for the Fleet Solid Support Ship was paid to (a) Navantia UK or (b) Navantia.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer given by my predecessor on 23 September 2021 to Question number 51616.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:11:02 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name UIN 51616.docx title Fleet Solid Support Ships: Procurement
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544591

registered interest
date	22/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts
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 November 2022 to Question 89763 on Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts, what estimate he has made of when the prime contractor for the Fleet Solid Support Ship contract will be decided.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	93478
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer given on 22 November 2022 to Question 88827.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:11:56 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk attachment 1 file name 88827 - Fleet Solid Support Ships.docx title Fleet Solid Support Ships: Contracts
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1543941

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence Equipment: Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of the UK Defence Budget was spent on equipment manufactured outside the UK in financial years (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	92337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence publishes information on gov.uk for all expenditure with UK commerce and industry since 2013-14. From this it is possible to extract an overall estimate of expenditure overseas, including equipment, between 2016-17 and 2020-21, which is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The industry expenditure figures below are based on the location of contracted work and exclude expenditure with foreign governments. Expenditure with the US Government through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) is available from 2018-19 onwards and has been provided separately.</p><p> </p><p>Orders placed in the UK may include those placed with the UK arms of multinational companies.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UK Defence Budget (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>UK Industry Expenditure (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Overseas Industry Expenditure (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FMS expenditure with US (£million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>35,283</p></td><td><p>18,547</p></td><td><p>2,414</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>36,605</p></td><td><p>18,853</p></td><td><p>3,123</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>38,026</p></td><td><p>19,238</p></td><td><p>2,334</p></td><td><p>460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>39,834</p></td><td><p>20,260</p></td><td><p>2,944</p></td><td><p>808</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>42,365</p></td><td><p>20,500</p></td><td><p>2,473</p></td><td><p>976</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for overall and UK expenditure can be found within Table 1 of the latest bulletin which can be accessed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-regional-expenditure-with-uk-industry-and-supported-employment-202021" target="_blank">MOD regional expenditure with UK industry and supported employment: 2020/21 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>FMS expenditure data is set out in Table 9 of the statistics covering MOD Trade, Industry and Contracts 2022, which can be accessed via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-trade-industry-and-contracts-2022" target="_blank">MOD trade, industry and contracts: 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:06:21 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1543942

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Foreign Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many foreign countries received orders from his Department in financial years (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21; and which were the top five countries that received the most orders from his Department in those years.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	92338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The information needed to answer the hon. Member's question is taking time to collate. I will write to him with an answer shortly, and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 25/11/2022 10:06:41 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan