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657052

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to include worker representation on its departmental board.
tabling member constituency	Rossendale and Darwen
tabling member printed	Jake Berry
uin	57006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the oral statement on the Corporate Governance Green Paper of 29 November 2016, Official Report, Column 1408.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Sir Michael Fallon question first answered 16/12/2016 13:01:29 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon attachment 1 file name 20161129_Oral_Statement_on_Corporate_Governance.docx title Oral Statement on Corporate Governance
tabling member	4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry

657054

registered interest
date	12/12/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what measures his Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Faversham and Mid Kent
tabling member printed	Helen Whately
uin	57217
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>Maintaining good levels of mental health and wellbeing is achieved using a 'through life approach' and the application of a wide range of measures based around a model of prevention, early detection and treatment. No system can guarantee to detect every individual at risk of mental health problems. Nevertheless, measures are in place to increase awareness at all levels.</p><p>Mental health support to members of the Armed Forces includes pre and post-operational stress management training, a wide range of psychiatric and psychological treatments, and initiatives such as Trauma Risk Management. We currently have 16 military Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs), which are located to be convenient for major centres of military population, and which support the provision of healthcare that is available through Service primary care facilities. In-patient care is provided in dedicated psychiatric units through a central contract the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has with a partnership of eight NHS Trusts, led by South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Foundation Trust.</p><p>The Armed Forces Covenant makes it clear that all members of the Armed Forces community deserve to receive the very best support and care that we can offer and it is vital to ensure that they are not disadvantaged when accessing healthcare, including treatment for mental health needs.</p><p>Civil Service Employee Policy provides a central health and well-being service to support departments in their well-being work. In 2015, the People Board agreed a strategic approach to health and well-being for the Civil Service. This identified mental health as a key priority. This strategic approach was developed into a Strategic Action Plan, which has now been successfully implemented.</p><p>The MOD has its own bespoke Employee Wellbeing Service that offers support to Civilian employees who experience mental health problems. Wellbeing Consultants are fully trained to provide support and information on a wide range of issues. We also offer a range of tools and information for employees who are experiencing mental health problems.</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 19/12/2016 15:57:46 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately

632763

registered interest
date	09/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the National Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, how the Ministry of Defence plans to reduce its civilian staff to 41,000 by the end of this Parliament.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL3161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The 30 per cent reduction in Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilian headcount will be achieved by making Defence significantly more efficient overall. A Future Defence Civilian Programme (FDCP) has been set up to identify and deliver the reductions; its first priority is to ensure that military capability and other key Defence outputs are not adversely impacted by these changes.</p><p>We do not anticipate an increased requirement for consultants to advise the MOD following the reduction in civilian headcount.</p><p>The Department is developing a Civilian Workforce Strategy for 2020 and beyond. This will set the vision for creating the future shape of the civilian workforce and for civil servants working at the MOD, and will be published before the end of the year. This Strategy is informing our initial study to scope a range of Departmental functions and activities that present opportunities for greater efficiency and productivity, smarter working within and across organisational boundaries, improved exploitation of technology, and better delivery models. The initial scoping study is due to conclude in early 2017.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3162 HL3163 HL3164 question first answered 17/11/2016 16:46:35 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

632764

registered interest
date	09/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the need to recruit consultants to advise the Ministry of Defence following the cuts in civilian staff.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL3162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The 30 per cent reduction in Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilian headcount will be achieved by making Defence significantly more efficient overall. A Future Defence Civilian Programme (FDCP) has been set up to identify and deliver the reductions; its first priority is to ensure that military capability and other key Defence outputs are not adversely impacted by these changes.</p><p>We do not anticipate an increased requirement for consultants to advise the MOD following the reduction in civilian headcount.</p><p>The Department is developing a Civilian Workforce Strategy for 2020 and beyond. This will set the vision for creating the future shape of the civilian workforce and for civil servants working at the MOD, and will be published before the end of the year. This Strategy is informing our initial study to scope a range of Departmental functions and activities that present opportunities for greater efficiency and productivity, smarter working within and across organisational boundaries, improved exploitation of technology, and better delivery models. The initial scoping study is due to conclude in early 2017.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3161 HL3163 HL3164 question first answered 17/11/2016 16:46:35 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

632766

registered interest
date	09/11/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to their response to the conclusion in paragraph 64 of the report by the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy <i>National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015</i> (1st Special Report, HL Paper 56), how the work outlined will constitute a review of the impact of the proposed 30 per cent reduction in civilian headcount by 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Touhig
uin	HL3164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The 30 per cent reduction in Ministry of Defence (MOD) civilian headcount will be achieved by making Defence significantly more efficient overall. A Future Defence Civilian Programme (FDCP) has been set up to identify and deliver the reductions; its first priority is to ensure that military capability and other key Defence outputs are not adversely impacted by these changes.</p><p>We do not anticipate an increased requirement for consultants to advise the MOD following the reduction in civilian headcount.</p><p>The Department is developing a Civilian Workforce Strategy for 2020 and beyond. This will set the vision for creating the future shape of the civilian workforce and for civil servants working at the MOD, and will be published before the end of the year. This Strategy is informing our initial study to scope a range of Departmental functions and activities that present opportunities for greater efficiency and productivity, smarter working within and across organisational boundaries, improved exploitation of technology, and better delivery models. The initial scoping study is due to conclude in early 2017.</p> answering member printed Earl Howe grouped question UIN HL3161 HL3162 HL3163 question first answered 17/11/2016 16:46:35 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
tabling member	542 label Biography information for Lord Touhig

620876

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department (a) has directly employed and (b) plans to directly employ additional staff as a result of the decision of the UK to leave the EU.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Kirsten Oswald
uin	50276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has allocated four internal staff specifically to deal with work arising from the UK's decision to leave the European Union so far as it affects Defence. The Department is not currently planning to directly employ any additional staff. Any future decision to recruit personnel into the Department to address specific issues resulting from the UK's departure from the EU will be made on a case by case basis</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 31/10/2016 17:00:45 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4413 label Biography information for Kirsten Oswald

604749

registered interest
date	18/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) senior officials and (b) Ministers of his Department are over the age of 45.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	49158
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2016 answer text <p>A total of 235 of the 315 Senior Civil Servants (SCS), including those in equivalent posts and SCS personnel in DE&amp;S Trading Entity employed by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) were aged 46 or above as at 1 July 2016. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5. All MOD Ministers are over the age of 45.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 21/10/2016 11:09:56 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

595474

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, approximately how many (a) British and (b) non-British nationals are employed cleaning the Westminster estate of his Department.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	47558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held by the Ministry of Defence. Cleaning staff are provided through a Private Finance Initiative Contract with Modus</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster question first answered 14/10/2016 12:54:36 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

595480

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of staff on the payroll of his Department who work in Westminster are (a) British nationals and (b) nationals of another country.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	John Pugh
uin	47580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.</p><p>Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with business to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 47411 question first answered 17/10/2016 16:45:13 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

542134

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 36 of the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, how many members of staff are employed in his Department's commercial specialist team designed to act as the single sponsor for aspects of the defence nuclear enterprise.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	43905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence's (MOD) new Director General Nuclear organisation was established on 1 April this year. The acting Director General was appointed in May and we expect to make a permanent appointment by the end of the year. The MOD Head Office staff working on different aspects of nuclear-related matters have transferred into the new organisation and additional recruitment to strengthen and deepen the capabilities of the team is also taking place. At present, the new organisation has around 120 staff and it is envisaged that this will rise to about 175 staff over the course of the next year.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 05/09/2016 14:44:08 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones