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446255

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Yemen: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assistance British service personnel are providing to Saudi Arabian forces in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	23505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The UK and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have a long history of defence cooperation. As part of this long standing relationship, the RAF provides training and shares best practice to the Royal Saudi Air Force, including training on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) compliant targeting.</p><p>In addition we have provided guidance and advice to the Saudis on their processes to ensure continued compliance with IHL.</p><p>Finally the UK has deployed a small number of military personnel serving as Liaison Officers in Saudi headquarters. Their role is to build our relationship and provide insight into Saudi operations. Liaison Officers are not involved in directing or conducting operations in Yemen or selecting targets and are not involved in the Saudi targeting decision-making process.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 25/01/2016 16:24:51 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

446257

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how the movement of nuclear materials on roads in Scotland by his Department is supervised and regulated.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The transport of Defence Nuclear Material is regulated by the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator according to the provisions of Joint Service Publication 538, Regulation of the Nuclear Weapon Programme, available at: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/341332/20140801_JSP_538_V3_1_Pt_1.pdf</p><p>A wide range of safety and contingency measures are in place to ensure the safety of nuclear convoy operations. These are summarised in the Local Authority and Emergency Service Information document available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-emergency-services-information.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 23384 question first answered 25/01/2016 16:16:20 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

446258

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many movements of nuclear material there have been on roads in Scotland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>It is Ministry of Defence policy not to comment upon the frequency or routes used by nuclear material convoys, as to do so would, or would be likely to, prejudice national security. Nuclear material convoy movements are kept to the minimum necessary to maintain the operational effectiveness of the UK's nuclear deterrent.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 23385 question first answered 25/01/2016 16:17:44 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

446260

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what advisory notices of movements of nuclear material by road in Scotland his Department gives to (a) the Scottish Government and (b) Scottish local authorities in advance of any such movements.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The Scottish Government and local authorities are not given advance notice of movements that involve Defence nuclear material.</p><p>Police forces are always notified in advance of a convoy being routed through their area. Police may advise fire and rescue services of the presence of the convoy if it is moving into the vicinity of a fire service operation.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 25/01/2016 16:17:00 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

446261

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what safety and contingency measures his Department puts in place before nuclear materials are transported on roads in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The transport of Defence Nuclear Material is regulated by the Defence Nuclear Safety Regulator according to the provisions of Joint Service Publication 538, Regulation of the Nuclear Weapon Programme, available at: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/341332/20140801_JSP_538_V3_1_Pt_1.pdf</p><p>A wide range of safety and contingency measures are in place to ensure the safety of nuclear convoy operations. These are summarised in the Local Authority and Emergency Service Information document available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-emergency-services-information.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 23386 question first answered 25/01/2016 16:16:20 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

446262

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Radioactive Materials: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what road routes have been used for the movement of nuclear materials in Scotland in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23385
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>It is Ministry of Defence policy not to comment upon the frequency or routes used by nuclear material convoys, as to do so would, or would be likely to, prejudice national security. Nuclear material convoy movements are kept to the minimum necessary to maintain the operational effectiveness of the UK's nuclear deterrent.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt grouped question UIN 23374 question first answered 25/01/2016 16:17:44 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

446263

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Pakistan: 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 met his Pakistani counterpart.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	23338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>I met Pakistan's Defence Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, on 5 August 2015.</p><p>During my visit I also paid calls on the Prime Minister and other key interlocutors. Most recently, I met with Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif when he visited the UK last October.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 25/01/2016 16:24:07 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

446266

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Syria: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference his oral evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights of 16 December 2015, Question 20, HC 574, whether his Department's position was that the UK was in an armed conflict (a) before, (b) on the date of or (c) as a result of the drone strike that killed Reyaad Khan of 21 August 2015.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	23435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>An armed conflict was occuring in Syria at the time of the air strike on 21 August 2015.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 25/01/2016 16:18:29 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

446270

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
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 10 November 2015, 4 December 2015 and 12 December 2015 to Questions 17693, 18405 and 18552, when he plans to place in the Library the documents referred to in those Answers.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	23301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>The documents were placed in the Library of the House on Tuesday 19 January.</p><br /> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 25/01/2016 16:25:28 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

446273

registered interest
date	20/01/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Middle East: Military Intervention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the comments made by a spokesperson of his Department in an article published in The Herald newspaper on 10 January 2016, and pursuant to his oral contribution of 18 January 2016, Official Report, column 1118, if he will issue guidance to independent monitoring groups on how to contact his Department on, and how to submit evidence relating to, possible civilian casualties from air strikes in Syria and Iraq; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Mr Graham Allen
uin	23253
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p>Independent monitoring groups are free to contact the Ministry of Defence through the normal means of correspondence and any credible reports of civilian casualties will be investigated.</p><br /> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 25/01/2016 16:28:13 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	364 label Biography information for Mr Graham Allen