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177130

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date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Qualifications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether military personnel are permitted to sit or re-sit GCSEs once their initial training has come to an end.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	222945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Members of the Armed Forces can sit, or re-sit, a GCSE at any point in their career, provided they do so through a recognised examination centre. Service Education centres are able to provide this facility free of charge in the UK and when serving overseas.</p><p>Where Service personnel choose to sit examinations at an external Examination Centre, for example where the examination is not offered by their Service Education Centre, financial support is provided through the Standard Learning Credit Scheme which allows Service personnel to claim 80% of course and examination fees (including GCSEs), up to a maximum of £175 per financial year. Standard Learning Credits are unable to be used for an examination resit only, as a course of instruction must be included.</p><p>Military personnel are also entitled to use Colleges of Further Education to attend a variety of education courses and to take examinations and resits, subject to payment of the appropriate fees.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2015 17:40:46 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

177131

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Corrective Training Centre Colchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether detainees aged under 18 years are accommodated separately from adults at the Military Corrective Training Centre.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	222946
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Detainees aged 16 years are always accommodated separately from adults.</p><p>Detainees aged 17 years may be accommodated with older detainees, but only if this is their stated wish. In that event, the decision is subject to a detailed risk assessment.</p><p>Over the 12 months to 31 December 2014, there were no detainees aged 16 years and two detainees aged 17 years held at the Military Corrective Training Centre.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2015 17:45:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

177133

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Protection of Military Remains Act 1986
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 10 November 2014 to Question 213663, when he plans to announce which of the 5,000 ships under construction will be designated under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	222936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department is currently planning to make a decision on the next tranche of ships to be designated under the Act by the end of 2015.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2015 17:42:46 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti

177134

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Falkland Islands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when a Defence Minister last visited the Falkland Islands.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Sir Bob Russell
uin	222935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>In June 2007, the then Minister for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram, visited the Falkland Islands.</p><p>In November 2011, Philip Dunne MP and I visited the Falkland Islands, during which time we visited the military base at Mount Pleasant. Whilst not in Ministry of Defence Ministerial positions at the time, we both subsequently joined the Department the following year.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 10/02/2015 17:55:18 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 43824 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	35 label Biography information for Sir Bob Russell

177135

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Islamic State
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) scale and (b) result is of recent air operations against ISIL.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	222901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>There are some 60 nations involved in the coalition and over a dozen in ongoing air activity over Iraq and Syria. The UK has deployed two types of armed aircraft in the operation against ISIL; the Tornado GR4 and the Reaper, Remotely Piloted Air System. As at 31 January 2015, these aircraft have flown 392 missions and released 206 weapons against ISIL targets. The UK have also provided other aircraft to perform surveillance, air refuelling and air transport roles. In concert with Iraqi and Kurdish ground units, coalition air activities have helped to check ISIL's advance and in some places begun to reverse that advance.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 09/02/2015 16:52:27 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 43241 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

177136

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of applications for (a) security clearance and counter-terrorist checks and (b) developed vetting have not met the performance targets set for DBS for the processing of such applications in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is given in the tables attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 26 January 2015 to PQ 221648.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name 222843 - Performance Targets of Security Clearance and Developed Vetting.doc title 222843 - Performance Targets on Vetting Applicatio 2 file name 20150126 - 221648 - Vetting.doc title 221648 - Vetting question first answered 23/02/2015 17:23:41 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 43820 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

177137

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Burma
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of providing training courses for the Burmese Army to date; and what funding for that purpose has been allocated for (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	222964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>To date, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has spent £105,905 on Defence Education activity with Burma. The MOD's allocated funding for financial year 2014-15 is £139,530 whilst funding for financial year 2015-16 is still under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 09/02/2015 16:51:47 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois previous answer version 43240 answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

176886

registered interest
date	30/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met the (a) Home Secretary, (b) Foreign Secretary and (c) Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to discuss cyber security; and what the outcome of those meetings was.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	222798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>Regular discussions take place between Ministers and others on cyber security issues. The Government's approach to cyber security issues was set out in the UK Cyber Security Strategy in November 2011. Progress against the strategy's objectives was set out for Parliament by the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude) on 11 December 2014 (<em>Official Report</em>, column 51WS).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 04/02/2015 16:59:49 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois attachment 1 file name Cyber Security Strategy.doc HOC 22798.doc title Hansard Extract 11 December 2014
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

176888

registered interest
date	30/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on its work on a cyber-security model to be implemented in its contracts.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian Lucas
uin	222800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence already includes information security clauses in its contracts; these are being augmented by the development of the cyber security model. Its first output - a set of cyber profiles which detail the measures suppliers will be required to comply with - is expected to be published by the end of March 2015. It is anticipated that implementation in contracts will begin in autumn 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 04/02/2015 17:00:27 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

176889

registered interest
date	30/01/2015
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Katrice Lee
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress the Royal Military Police have made in respect of Operation BUTE; and on what date he expects that investigation to conclude.
tabling member constituency	Gosport
tabling member printed	Caroline Dinenage
uin	222788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Royal Military Police continue to investigate Katrice Lee's disappearance from Paderborn in Germany in 1981. Over 11,500 documents have been registered onto the Home Office Large Major Enquiry System. Each of these documents is being reviewed, and over 2,000 investigative actions have so far been generated and followed up. The Royal Military Police are working hard to eliminate persons of interest. As the investigation is still under way, I cannot comment any further on precise details, including when it might be completed. However, Royal Military Police Liaison Officers remain in contact with Katrice's family to ensure that they are kept fully informed of developments.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2015 17:44:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage