Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label attachment file name title
tabling member	label

Search

1150810

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will introduce a statute of limitations to protect servicemen and women from prosecution.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	900016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The prosecution of veterans is something that we take very seriously. Our Service personnel are of course subject to the law, but veterans should not have to face repeated investigations many years after the events in question. This is why we have just completed a public consultation on proposed legal protections measures for serving personnel and veterans. Once we have analysed the responses, we will bring forward legislation.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 21/10/2019 16:42:04 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

1150811

registered interest
date	21/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	If he will take steps to ensure that veterans who served before 1975 for less than 22 years are granted a service pension.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	900020
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>I understand and sympathise with the veterans affected. However, the issue of pre-1975 pensions is common to all contemporary public service schemes. Given the likely number of former employees, the financial impact of resolving legacy pension issues is expected to be very significant. There would also be potentially overwhelming practical and administrative difficulties in recreating precise service and pay records and calculating pension awards for people who served about half a century ago, or for their surviving dependants.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 21/10/2019 16:41:21 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

1150514

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Trident: Costs
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 to the public purse of maintaining the Trident Nuclear Weapons programme in (a) 2019 and (b) the lifetime of that programme.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	1697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 9 September 2019 to Question 286283 to the hon. Member for North East Fife (Stephen Gethins).</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 22/10/2019 15:06:31 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 9 September 2019 UIN 286283.docx title 286283 - Trident
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1150535

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Personation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of online sales of counterfeit military veteran ID cards; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	1594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is not aware of a trade in the sale of counterfeit Veterans' ID Cards and has made no assessment of such sales' trends. If an individual becomes aware of a counterfeit Veterans' ID Card, they should inform their local police force.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 22/10/2019 15:05:04 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1149990

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Housing and Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to support veterans through (a) housing and (b) mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) works closely with both the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Health and Social Care to ensure that veterans feel supported on these issues. However, the MOD does not have primary responsibility for housing veterans or treating their mental health.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD strongly believes that no-one should be homeless, least of all someone who has served their country. As part of the Strategy for our Veterans and its consultation, the Government has made clear its commitment to tackling rough sleeping and homelessness and ensuring that all veterans have a secure place to live: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ strategy-for-our-veterans. There is, however, no substantive evidence to suggest that veterans are over-represented in the homeless population.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD works with other service providers to ensure there is a coordinated and structured approach to homelessness amongst the small minority of veterans who are without homes. Our aim is both to prevent new Service leavers becoming homeless and to provide an effective safety net for existing homeless veterans. Former Service personnel with urgent housing needs are always given high priority for social housing.</p><p> </p><p>Service personnel can also be provided with a certificate of cessation six months before they leave the Armed Forces. The certificate contains the date Service personnel stop being entitled to Service accommodation and can be considered by local authorities as evidence of impending homelessness, arising from cessation of entitlement to Service accommodation. If Service personnel think they will become homeless they can show the certificate to their Local Authority, which will then conduct an assessment of individual housing needs.</p><p> </p><p>For those veterans who may be experiencing mental health difficulties, in addition to their mainstream mental health services NHS England has commissioned two bespoke services. The first is the Transition, Intervention and Liaison Service (TILS) which supports serving personnel who need additional support as they are leaving the Armed Forces and veterans who have mental health issues. The TILS is also the entry point to the Complex Treatment Service (CTS), the second service commissioned by NHS England. The CTS is able to provide a range of more intensive care and treatment for veterans with military-related complex mental health difficulties, many of whom will have experienced trauma.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, the new Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA) in the Cabinet Office has been created to ensure the full power of Government is harnessed to help veterans. The OVA will use the convening power of the Cabinet Office within Whitehall to ensure better coordination of support. This will include helping veterans access services, such as training, housing, healthcare and mental health services. The OVA will also be a champion for veterans. On 16 October 2019 the Cabinet Office announced the appointment of retired Colonel David Richmond CBE, a former Commanding Officer of 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and subsequently became the Recovery Director at Help for Heroes, to lead the OVA. One of the first tasks of the OVA will be to consider responses to the Strategy for our Veterans public consultation and announce a detailed work programme and implementation plan to take the Strategy forward across the various Government Departments with an interest in veterans’ issues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 22/10/2019 15:01:26 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch

1150107

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent from the Continuity of Education Allowance on placements at (a) Eton, (b) Charterhouse, (c) Harrow, (d) Rugby, (e) Shrewsbury, (f) Westminster, (g) Winchester, (h) St Paul's and (i) Merchant Taylors in the last financial year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
uin	1129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) payments made by Service personnel to the schools in question during Financial Year 2018-19 were as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>School</p></td><td><p>£</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Eton College</p></td><td><p>184,592</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Charterhouse School</p></td><td><p>14,814</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Harrow School</p></td><td><p>249,726</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rugby School</p></td><td><p>155,547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shrewsbury School</p></td><td><p>355,978</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Westminster School</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Winchester College</p></td><td><p>60,925</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>St Paul’s School</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Merchant Taylor’s School</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Service personnel may select from a wide variety of schools across the UK from within the independent and state-maintained sectors. To qualify for the purposes of CEA, a school must: offer full boarding facilities; be registered with the appropriate UK education department; be subject to Ofsted inspection and, in the case of independent schools, be a member of an organisation affiliated to the Independent Schools Council or the Scottish Council for Independent Schools. Each claimant is required to contribute at least 10 per cent of the fees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 21/10/2019 10:57:20 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1150160

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department uses Office for National Statistics estimates of personal well-being in formulating policy; and what policies his Department has introduced to improve personal well-being in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) consults relevant National Statistics when formulating policy.</p><p>The MOD takes the health and wellbeing of its personnel very seriously. A Health and Wellbeing Strategy for all MOD employees, military and civilian, was published in mid-2015 (updated in August 2016) and is designed to provide guidance to the Chain of Command and civilian line managers on how to manage the health needs, both mental and physical, of their people. The aim is to maximise the number of people fit to work, managing people back to work after a period of sickness, so that they are fit and able to meet the requirements of Defence outputs, including operational effectiveness.</p><p>For personnel returning from conflict, the MOD continues to fund the large scale, ongoing independent study from the King's Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR), King's College London, which has become an important source of data on the impact of deployment on the overall health and wellbeing of military personnel and veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2003, MOD has contributed over £9 million to this study.</p><p>A considerable number of research papers, relating to issues such as wellbeing, depression, alcohol abuse, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, can be accessed on the KCMHR area of the King's College London website at https://www1.kcl.ac.uk/kcmhr/pubdb/. This work continues to produce high quality evidence upon which we can make considered decisions about the way we manage and treat our personnel.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 22/10/2019 15:06:01 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1149211

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Military Aid
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps the Government is taking to fulfil the commitment to provide military assistance to Saudi Arabia made in the Written Statement of 23 May 2019, Official Report HCWS716.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 1 April 2019 to Question 237783.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 21/10/2019 10:58:09 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton attachment 1 file name 237783 - Yemen - Overseas workers.docx title Yemen:Overseas Workers
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1149245

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Trident
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether there is a statutory requirement for a (a) military and (b) legal review of the Trident Replacement Decision.
tabling member constituency	Inverclyde
tabling member printed	Ronnie Cowan
uin	661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>There is no statutory requirement for a military or legal review of the decision to maintain the United Kingdom's nuclear deterrent.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 21/10/2019 10:58:30 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4465 label Biography information for Ronnie Cowan

1149267

registered interest
date	15/10/2019
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it remains his policy to increase (a) female personnel to 15 per cent of intake and (b) Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic personnel to at least 10 percent of total intake by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Defence Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, published in October 2018, is based on achieving a vision that reflects our recognition that the recruitment, and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to Defence and wider society.</p><p>The Armed Forces continue to work towards targets of 10 per cent of recruits to come from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds and 15 percent to be women by 2020.</p><p>Work to increase representation in the Armed Forces includes better understanding and greater engagement with these communities, reviewing recruitment processes; and better targeted marketing and communications towards potential applicants.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 21/10/2019 11:01:28 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake