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1699283

registered interest
date	27/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Chinook Helicopters: Accidents
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they will release the documents relating to the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash.
tabling member printed	Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
uin	HL3674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Noble Lord to the answers given by my Right Honourable Friend, The Minister for Defence People and Families, in the other place on 26 February 2024 (UIN 13866) and on 15 March 2024 (UIN 17490).</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 09/04/2024 09:53:52 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto attachment 1 file name Chinook Helicopters Accidents.docx title Chinook Helicopters
tabling member	1141 label Biography information for Lord Forsyth of Drumlean

1699225

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	NATO: Gender
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by The Earl of Minto on 18 March (HL2986), who represents the UK on the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives and how they were chosen.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hodgson of Abinger
uin	HL3615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2024 answer text <p>The Human Security policy team in the Ministry of Defence are the policy owners and experts on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in Defence. They provide one civilian or active duty representative for the UK at the NATO Committee on Gender Perspectives (NCGP). This representative regularly attends NCGP meetings and has supported the revision of NATO’s updated WPS Policy (due to be published in 2024), and the revision of roles and relationships between the NCGP and the NATO Military Committee. UK representation in the NCGP will continue to be provided by the Ministry of Defence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 11/04/2024 13:40:57 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	4301 label Biography information for Baroness Hodgson of Abinger

1699237

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what action they propose to take to reduce the approximately 71 per cent of candidates who drop out of the application process for the Armed Forces, and whether the primary cause of such drop outs is the slow process of recruitment.
tabling member printed	Lord Naseby
uin	HL3627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2024 answer text <p>Recruitment and retention are absolute priorities and we have introduced a range of measures to respond to the current recruitment challenge, which is affecting many other militaries across the world. While it does take time to recruit the right people to our Armed Forces, we have sped up Army recruitment by 9% in the last year, and the majority of regular soldiers join in less than 140 days. There are a multitude of factors which impact on a candidate’s engagement with Armed Forces recruiting systems, and we are actively seeking to address these within our measures.</p><p> </p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 11/04/2024 13:41:34 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	1251 label Biography information for Lord Naseby

1699246

registered interest
date	26/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Expenditure
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how much they have spent on defence as a share of gross domestic product in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Lord Rogan
uin	HL3636
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2024 answer text <p>NATO’s published figures for UK defence spending as a percentage of GDP spend since 2010 are below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Share of gdp</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2.47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2.38</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2.16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2.03</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2.09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2.08</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2.10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2.08</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2.35</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>2.28</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 12/04/2024 13:46:03 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	2478 label Biography information for Lord Rogan

1698284

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	France and Germany: Tanks
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they were invited to participate in the recently announced Franco-German Main Ground Combat System which is intended to jointly provide a successor tank to the Leopard and Leclerc.
tabling member printed	Lord Lee of Trafford
uin	HL3588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has requested observer status for the Main Ground Combat System programme.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 09/04/2024 09:56:20 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	1132 label Biography information for Lord Lee of Trafford

1698104

registered interest
date	22/03/2024
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 23 January 2024 to Question 10351 on Armed Forces: Housing, if he will provide a regional breakdown of those figures.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	20104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>The table below provides a breakdown per region of the number of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) which have been treated for damp and mould, loss of heating, loss of hot water, loss of water supply, electrical faults, and pest infestation since 1 April 2022.</p><p> </p><p>As previously advised, the damp and mould figures are provided from February 2023 and issues relating to the loss of heating and hot water are not recorded separately as boiler faults often affect both.</p><p> </p><p>The 1,674 SFA properties which had been treated for damp and mould was reported as at 10:00 hours on 18 January 2024 from the live reporting system. The end of day final figure recorded for 18 January 2024 was 1,679, as shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Issue</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of SFA in South East</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of SFA in South West </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of SFA in Central</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of SFA in North</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total no. of SFA properties </strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Supporting Notes</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Damp and mould (provided from February 2023)</strong></p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>656</p></td><td><p>174</p></td><td><p>149</p></td><td><p>1,679</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Loss of heating and hot water</strong></p></td><td><p>8,120</p></td><td><p>9,117</p></td><td><p>3,330</p></td><td><p>3,535</p></td><td><p>24,102</p></td><td><p>This figure includes all repairs associated with heating such as condensate pipes freezing in extremely cold weather, a faulty single radiator valve, a lack of hot water to individual taps and are not limited to just a total loss of heating or water loss.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Loss of water supply</strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>48</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Electrical faults</strong></p></td><td><p>8,981</p></td><td><p>9,490</p></td><td><p>7,371</p></td><td><p>4,044</p></td><td><p>29,886</p></td><td><p>The electrical fault figure includes faults such as light bulb changes, one hob of an electric oven not working and electric shower issues. It does not always relate to any safety issue or total loss of electricity.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Pest infestation</strong></p></td><td><p>1,874</p></td><td><p>1,473</p></td><td><p>1,125</p></td><td><p>651</p></td><td><p>5,123</p></td><td><p>Pest control requests are responded to within 3 hours if an emergency, and within 15 days if routine.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 03/04/2024 14:46:28 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1698131

registered interest
date	22/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Rwanda: Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the use of RAF planes to transport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	20105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Defence has frequent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on issues affecting their Departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 03/04/2024 15:22:22 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1698170

registered interest
date	22/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Dstl: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department provided for the Influence and Command programme at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in each financial year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	20007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 2 April 2024 to Question 19791.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 20008 20009 20010 20011 20012 20013 20014 20015 20016 20019 20022 20023 20024 question first answered 03/04/2024 10:57:07 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 19791 - Dstl Costs.docx title Dstl Costs
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1698171

registered interest
date	22/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Dstl: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department provided for the Land Systems programme at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in each financial year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	20008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 2 April 2024 to Question 19791.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 20007 20009 20010 20011 20012 20013 20014 20015 20016 20019 20022 20023 20024 question first answered 03/04/2024 10:57:07 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 19791 - Dstl Costs.docx title Dstl Costs
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1698172

registered interest
date	22/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Dstl: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department provided for the Maritime Systems programme at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in each financial year since 2019.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	20009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2024 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 2 April 2024 to Question 19791.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge grouped question UIN 20007 20008 20010 20011 20012 20013 20014 20015 20016 20019 20022 20023 20024 question first answered 03/04/2024 10:57:07 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge attachment 1 file name 19791 - Dstl Costs.docx title Dstl Costs
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle