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1361131

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date	19/10/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in Afghanistan are still waiting for their applications for the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy to be processed as at 19 October 2021.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	58938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>We have received a huge number of applications for the ARAP scheme, the vast majority since the beginning of August. Substantial resource has been dedicated to processing these applications, which is a very high priority.</p><p>To date some 85,000 applications have been received. Of those, processing is complete for 57,000, in progress for 4,000 and has not yet started on 24,000.</p><p>The ARAP team are working hard to process these applications, with older applications being the first priority.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 27/10/2021 07:02:10 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1361154

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Taliban: Social Media
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment the Government has made of the role of (a) Whatsapp, (b) Signal, (c) Telegram and (d) other social media messaging services in Taliban military command, control and communications in (i) totality and (ii) the summer 2021 advance on Kabul; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	58996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>It is not Ministry of Defence policy to comment on intelligence matters.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 22/10/2021 09:23:29 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1361205

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aid: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many military personnel deployments there have been in Scotland to assist the Scottish Health and Scottish Ambulance Services, by local authority area.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	David Duguid
uin	58986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>From 1 March 2020 to 20 October 2021, there have been 32 military personnel deployments to support the Scottish Health and Scottish Ambulance Services through Military Aid to the Civil Authority (MACA) requests. These MACA tasks ranged from supporting the COVID-19 vaccination and testing programme in Scotland, providing Service personnel to drive ambulances, as well as the use of defence estate and military planners.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of military deployments broken down by local authority area. The total exceeds 32 as some tasks spanned over several local authority areas.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Location</p></td><td><p>Number of MACA tasks</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Borders</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Belt</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fife</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highlands &amp; Islands</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kinloss</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lothian</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rosyth</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nationwide (Scotland)</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 27/10/2021 16:46:13 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4606 label Biography information for David Duguid

1361212

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Aid: Scotland
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 cost of deploying of military personnel to assist the Scottish Health and Scottish Ambulance Service during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Banff and Buchan
tabling member printed	David Duguid
uin	58991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Since 22 March 2020, the estimated cost of assisting the Scottish Government in support of Op RESCRIPT (MoD's COVID-19 response) is £15 million.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 26/10/2021 12:11:37 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4606 label Biography information for David Duguid

1361220

registered interest
date	19/10/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Training
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 October 2021 to Question 52414, how many and what proportion of his Department's staff have received their refresher training for information security.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	58730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2021 answer text <p>All Ministry of Defence (MOD) personnel are required to undertake initial and refresher training to ensure they can recognise threats to security and can respond appropriately. The mandated training is the Defence Information Management Passport (DIMP) online course, which must be retaken every three years, and annual attendance at a General Security Threat Brief (this covers all elements of protective security and includes information and cyber security).</p><p>In the period 1 February 2021 (when Version six was introduced) to 4 October 2021, a total of <del class="ministerial">81,306</del><ins class="ministerial">12,520</ins> MOD <ins class="ministerial">civil service</ins> staff completed or refreshed their DIMP in accordance with the three-yearly cycle. Completion data is not held by grade within the Defence Learning Environment. Longer term training records will be held locally by business units, but collating this information would involve going out to all sites across MOD, and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>General Security Threat Briefs are delivered locally, and no data regarding attendance is held centrally. Again, collating this information would involve going out to all sites across MOD, and this would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 22/10/2021 13:11:07 question first ministerially corrected 25/01/2022 12:13:41 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty previous answer version 26264 answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey