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1687941

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Identity Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of the HM Veterans Card to veterans living in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	13467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2024 answer text <p>The new digital application and verification service for all pre-2018 service leavers went live at 00:01 on Sunday 28 January 2024. Alongside the launch, a promotional campaign to raise awareness of the HM Armed Forces Veteran recognition card's availability has been conducted covering social media, GOV.UK, Defence HQ and MOD-specific sites, Ministerial statements and the Sunday Express.</p><p> </p><p>For veterans in Northern Ireland, an additional service will also soon be implemented whereby cards can be delivered to one of a number of MOD locations for those who do not wish to receive delivery at their home address. The Northern Ireland Veterans Welfare Service (VWS) continue to provide support to veterans and promote the card's delivery options via their links with local charities, support service and ex-Service organisations.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/02/2024 16:36:08 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1687946

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to increase recruitment to the armed forces in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	13472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2024 answer text <p>The Armed Forces recruit nationally and do not operate a specific policy of increasing recruitment from particular geographic areas. Armed Forces Career Offices are spread across the UK, including in Northern Ireland, and continue to provide core support to the Armed Forces’ national recruiting activities. The geographic footprint of Armed Forces Career Offices across the UK is complemented by dedicated call centres and online recruiting operations, ensuring that all UK communities have the same opportunity to join the Armed Forces as anyone else. In addition, the Services conduct outreach engagement programmes across the whole of the UK, delivering events such as career fairs, tactical campaigns and roadshows, supported by web-based information services and social media campaigns. These recruitment activities are further supported through strategic partnerships such as with JobCentrePlus, who provide additional face-to-face touchpoints with potential Armed Forces applicants.</p><p> </p><p>The Armed Forces regularly review their recruiting activities and associated resource in accordance with the requirement. A range of tangible short-term deliverables are being actioned to increasing the inflow into Armed Forces recruitment pipelines, all intended to increase the breadth of potential candidates and to drive efficiencies into recruitment systems. These ongoing and new initiatives are focused upon engaging the broad range of skills, experience and diversity needed to deliver that which our nation demands of our Armed Forces; and in the range of roles that are critical to enable this.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 15/02/2024 16:36:48 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1686016

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Identity Cards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans from Northern Ireland have (a) received and (b) had an application denied for a Veteran's ID card as of 30 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	12207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's Question. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/02/2024 14:18:21 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1523159

registered interest
date	17/10/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Cadets and Reserve Forces: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department has taken to increase awareness of the potential merits of joining the Reserve Forces and Cadets in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	64393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The single Services have provided the following information:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Royal Navy</strong></p><p> </p><p>Based in Lisburn, HMS Hibernia is Northern Ireland's Royal Naval Reserve Unit. This Unit has a proactive recruiting posture and is regularly represented in colleges and careers fairs, as well as through online recruiting events. HMS HIBERNIA has also participated in Northern Ireland Armed Forces Day activities, as well as delivering Employer Engagement events.</p><p>The Royal Navy Cadet Forces are well represented in Northern Ireland with three units of the Combined Cadet Force and eleven units of the Sea Cadet Corps (SCC) across the Province, and a further two SCC units currently under consideration.</p><p> </p><p><strong>British Army</strong></p><p> </p><p>Advertising opportunities in Northern Ireland for Army roles takes shape in the exact same way as it does in the rest of the UK. In addition, the Army's Recruiting Group support three large events in Northern Ireland which cover both Regular and Reserve streams, providing recruiting literature which is specific to Northern Ireland. At a tactical level, the Army's Recruiting Group provides unit-specific recruiting literature and the last order saw around 15,000 personalised leaflets sent to units in Northern Ireland.</p><p>For Cadets, the #NoFilter campaign to recruit both new Cadets and adult volunteers ran for two weeks in Northern Ireland in February 2022, using outdoor media, streamed radio advertising and social media targeting. There was a marked increase in applications submitted during the two weeks the campaign was run.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Royal Air Force (RAF)</strong></p><p> </p><p>Air Officer Northern Ireland has an extensive, ongoing, regional Engagement Strategy to raise awareness of the RAF in Northern Ireland, often using 502 (Ulster) Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force in its delivery. This provides the RAF Reserves with the opportunity to show who they are, tell their story, and highlight the benefits of Reserve Service. Activity and events that raise awareness are underpinned by regional recruiting and selecting radio advertisements and national television adverts which also promote the opportunities and benefits.</p><p>There is also a continual focus on promoting the benefits, values and experience that Royal Air Force Air Cadet membership brings to youth in Northern Ireland, as well as a direct effort to enlarge the footprint of Cadet units.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wrexham answering member printed Sarah Atherton question first answered 25/10/2022 11:20:53 answering member 4855 label Biography information for Sarah Atherton
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1457260

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ukraine: Antitank Missiles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral statement to the House of 9 March 2022 on Ukraine, whether the Government has successfully delivered the consignment of anti-tank Javelin missiles to Ukraine; and how many of those missiles it will supply.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	154515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>I can confirm that 218 anti-tank Javelin missiles, have been successfully delivered to Ukraine. The Prime Minister announced, on 8 April 2022, that a further consignment of Javelin missiles will be delivered in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 25/04/2022 10:31:21 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1303896

registered interest
date	18/03/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	National Security: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria his Department uses to determine good faith security research, as outlined in his Department’s Vulnerability Disclosure Policy.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	171780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2021 answer text <p>A Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP) is a 'see something, say something' process to allow security researchers to report a vulnerability in MOD systems (found through e.g. ethical hacking). MOD launched its VDP in December 2020.</p><p>Practically, 'to act in good faith' means working to find vulnerabilities in IT systems without causing damage to them, disrupting their operation, or exfiltrating data in an unauthorised manner. There are no set criteria for acting in good faith because the situations are context dependent. However, it does not give researchers permission to act in any manner that is inconsistent with the law, or which might cause the MOD or partner organisations to be in breach of any legal obligations.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 24/03/2021 15:16:23 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1282173

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Civil Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What progress is being made with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on bringing forward legacy legislation on tackling vexatious claims against veterans who have served in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	911634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>This Government is committed to bringing an end to vexatious claims against the Armed Forces. We have introduced the Overseas Operations Bill to reduce the uncertainty faced by our Service personnel and veterans in relation to historical allegations and claims arising from overseas operations. We have also been clear that we will bring forward separate legislation to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland - including delivering on our commitment to Northern Ireland veterans - as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 01/02/2021 16:39:02 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1234554

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Reserve Forces: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to circumstances which where a member of the auxiliary reserve forces lives in Northern Ireland but is part of a GB based military unit, that does not have an operating base in Northern Ireland, what support those service personnel get with travel costs to attend their regular training at their unit.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	90298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>Volunteer Reserve personnel are eligible to claim Home to Duty Travel allowance which provides a contribution towards the costs incurred when they travel between their normal civilian place of work to attend training. Payment of this allowance is capped at a maximum travelling distance of 50 miles, regardless of any greater distance travelled, and this is in line with what is paid to Regular Service personnel. Some specialist Reservists may be eligible for rates in excess of 50 miles due to the location of certain Specialist Units. This extended mileage concession is only available on permission of Commanding Officers and after obtaining financial authority and applies to all specialist Reservists in the UK. The exceptional nature of this concession is because the Ministry of Defence needs to balance the cost of such travel with operational needs.</p><p>Not all Volunteer Reserve personnel live in the vicinity of their Unit. There will be some, for example, who have had to relocate for civilian employment reasons but who cannot, or choose not to, change to a new Unit. Where Volunteer Reserve personnel are unable to attend for training because of travel issues, they would not qualify for pay or be likely to earn a bounty, but that does not automatically mean they have to leave their Service. Units will do what they can to keep in touch with Volunteer Reservists in this situation.</p><p>Where Volunteer Reserve personnel are required to travel away from their normal Unit (e.g. for annual training) then they are eligible to claim Duty Travel allowance for the cost of the travel to and from their Unit to the temporary duty station where the training is due to take place.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 22/09/2020 10:04:47 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1226909

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of providing free meals to armed forces personnel who have been mobilised during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	77855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>When Armed Forces personnel are mobilised or deployed away from their permanent duty station, it is normal practice that they are provided with access to meals, either directly or via an allowance which permits them to claim back reasonable expenses on food that they have purchased themselves. This applies to Service Personnel deployed in support of the COVID-19 response.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 01/09/2020 13:24:57 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart

1195618

registered interest
date	13/05/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support improved mental health amongst veterans in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	Carla Lockhart
uin	46824
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>Upon discharge from the Armed Forces, the provision of healthcare, including mental healthcare, is the purview of the NHS in England, and the Devolved Administrations in the rest of the UK. We are currently working with the NI Veterans Support Office (VSO) to take forward the important work of delivering the Armed Forces Covenant to our veterans in NI. The VSO has developed strong links between the NI Government Departments, Local Government Veterans’ Champions and the voluntary and charitable sector. This work with the VSO is key in building coherence and co-ordination among services through the NI Veterans Support Committee (NIVSC). The NIVSC was set up to improve cooperation between those organisations who are permanently based in NI and are committed to delivering support services to veterans.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 18/05/2020 14:30:20 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
tabling member	4857 label Biography information for Carla Lockhart