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1729642

registered interest
date	12/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Army: Recruitment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether they (1) are reviewing, or (2) plan to review, current Armed Services recruitment policy to allow those who have previously worked for UK forces in Afghanistan in any capacity, but who are not British or Commonwealth citizens, to apply to join the British Army if they have relocated to the UK.
tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
uin	HL1048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2024 answer text <p>We fully acknowledge and value the contribution of Afghan nationals who supported the UK mission in Afghanistan, and we are determined to honour our nation’s commitment to relocate and resettle eligible individuals. The nationality requirements for joining the UK Armed Forces are set out in legislation, namely the Armed Forces Act 2006. We are not currently reviewing the extant nationality requirements. Recruitment policies are reviewed regularly to ensure that Defence continues to be an employer which is representative of wider UK society.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 26/09/2024 10:03:38 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

1729049

registered interest
date	11/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Technology
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Test and Evaluation Transformation Programme being undertaken within the Ministry of Defence has completed its first phase; if not, when is the projected date of completion; and what is proposed for the next phase of the programme after that date.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goldie
uin	HL961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The Test and Evaluation (T&amp;E) Transformation Programme will conclude its first phase in March 2025. The focus of the second phase will be establishing the foundations of a modern T&amp;E enterprise that is fit for the future, as set out in the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) recently published paper on the future of T&amp;E:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-test-and-evaluation-future-advantage-through-evaluation-fate/test-and-evaluation-te-future-advantage-through-evaluation-fate" target="_blank">Test and Evaluation (T&amp;E): Future Advantage Through Evaluation (FATE) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p>The T&amp;E Transformation programme is currently collecting feedback from the Front Line Commands, defence industry and other organisations to inform the detailed design of its second phase, which is planned to commence in April 2025 subject to internal MOD approval.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 25/09/2024 13:11:45 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker attachment 1 file name Test and Evaluation in Defence.pdf title Test and Evaluation in Defence
tabling member	4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie

1729050

registered interest
date	11/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	South East Asia: Patrol Craft
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the deployment of HMS Tamar and HMS Spey or successor ships in south-east Asia will continue.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goldie
uin	HL962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>Yes, the current intent is to retain a persistent forward presence with HMS TAMAR and SPEY in the Indo Pacific. The ships regularly engage in activities with Southeast Asian states, including participation in military exercises, maritime activity with the Five Power Defence Arrangements, and defence and diplomatic engagement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 25/09/2024 10:50:19 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie

1729051

registered interest
date	11/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Attachés
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many defence attachés are currently operating in host countries; and whether the numbers of UK defence attachés (1) increased, or (2) decreased, in (a) 2022, (b) 2023, and (c) 2024 to date.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goldie
uin	HL963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2024 answer text <p>The current number of Defence Attachés (as of September 2024) who reside in host countries and lead Defence Sections in UK Embassies and High Commissions are 91. The numbers for the years 2022 and 2023 are:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Year Number of Defence Attachés</strong></p><p><strong>2022 </strong> 87</p><p><strong>2023</strong> 89</p><p> </p><p>Note: The UK Defence Attachés for the Russian Federation and Yemen have been temporarily relocated due to local circumstances and conduct their duties from other locations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 25/09/2024 10:51:22 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie

1729091

registered interest
date	11/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in the renovation and refurbishment of service accommodation and service family accommodation; and what remains outstanding in relation to those works.
tabling member printed	Baroness Goldie
uin	HL964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2024 answer text <p>The Department, through its contractors, continuously renovates, refurbishes, improves, and maintains its estate, including accommodation.</p><p>With regards to Service Family Accommodation (SFA):</p><p>In Financial Year (FY) 2023-24, the Department invested £578 million on maintaining and improving SFA, including £220 million which was spent on remediating damp and mould in c4,000 homes, refurbishing c1,000 long term empty homes, replacing doors and windows in c3,000 homes, providing c1,100 homes with External Wall Insulation, c1,000 homes with replacement kitchens and bathrooms, and upgrading heaters and boilers in c1,500 homes.</p><p>In FY2024-25, £619 million is to be spent on maintaining and improving SFA, including £180 million to improve insulation in c600 homes, remediate c1,000 long-term damp and mould homes and refurbishing 200 long-term empty homes. Circa 1,700 minor damp and mould packages are planned, and 30 homes will receive upgraded heating.</p><p>With regards to Single Living Accommodation (SLA):</p><p>In FY 2023-24, £37.8 million was spent on improvements to SLA, with another £3.2 million spent on SLA Safe &amp; Legal compliance works.</p><p> </p><p>During FY2024-25 expenditure of £41 million is planned to improve the condition of SLA including refurbishment, heating upgrades and room conversions to additional bedspaces. £7.5 million has also been ringfenced for internal improvements to SLA condition and heating. In addition, £14.3 million of Safe &amp; Legal compliance works are planned. Further to this, a further £66.6 million of SLA expenditure is planned for FY2025-26.</p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 26/09/2024 10:06:41 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	4306 label Biography information for Baroness Goldie

1727909

registered interest
date	06/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Veterans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to put the posts of the four Veterans Commissioners on a statutory footing; and on what timescale.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hoey
uin	HL844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2024 answer text <p>Veterans' Commissioners are currently appointed by Ministers. The Ministry of Defence, through the Office for Veterans' Affairs, continues to work closely with the Veterans’ Commissioner for Wales (VCfW), and the Scottish Veterans’ Commissioner (SVC), who is appointed by and reports to the Scottish Government (SG). The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) is working through the next steps to appoint a new Northern Ireland Veterans’ Commissioner.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 20/09/2024 12:40:47 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	210 label Biography information for Baroness Hoey

1727769

registered interest
date	05/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Egypt: World War I
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Goldie on 25 January 2023 (HL4903), what progress they have made towards (1) identifying and marking the graves of Egyptians who died serving the UK during the First World War, including in the Egyptian Labour Corps, and (2) recovering the records of all Egyptians who served with UK forces.
tabling member printed	Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
uin	HL783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2024 answer text <p>In its work to identify and mark the graves of the Egyptian Labour Corps and Camel Transport Corps, the Commonwealth War Graves Committee (CWGC) has established that more than 327,000 Egyptians served alongside Commonwealth forces across the Middle East, Turkey, and Western Europe. Of those, the CWGC now know that more than 16,500 died in service. Fewer than 400, however, have been commemorated by name, with the remainder commemorated collectively on the CWGC’s Giza Memorial.</p><p> </p><p>The CWGC has determined that during the Second World War, the Ministry of Interior sent thousands of notifications of death to the fallen personnel's next of kin. The CWGC believes these records are likely to be held either by the Egyptian State archives or possibly by one or more departments of the Government of Egypt. Although this is yet to be confirmed, the CWGC have approached the Egyptian authorities and are working to gain access the relevant archives.</p><p> </p><p>The CWGC's wider historical research in archives across Africa and Europe continues to make positive progress in revealing the names of those previously not commemorated, and in mapping potential burial sites. To date, almost 7,000 names have been recovered and the CWGC are actively working to commemorate these individuals in a manner befitting their service and loss.</p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 19/09/2024 14:57:18 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	4719 label Biography information for Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

1727464

registered interest
date	04/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence and Security: Innovation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the scale of innovation in the UK’s defence and security sector, in the light of the success of non-legacy defence contractors in recent US procurement rounds.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Ladyton
uin	HL741
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) recognises the importance of engaging with non-traditional defence suppliers and is working closely with UK Industry and Academia to identify and invest in innovative technologies that address our most pressing capability challenges.</p><p>This includes initiatives such as the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), which is designed to find and fund innovative solutions to defence and security challenges, for example through Regional Defence and Security Clusters (RDSCs)</p><p>This Government is committed to bringing forward a Defence Industrial Strategy, working closely with industry to support UK resilience and innovation.</p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 18/09/2024 14:18:47 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	620 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Ladyton

1726496

registered interest
date	02/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Electronic Warfare
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of UK capabilities in electronic warfare; and what steps they are taking to improve such capability.
tabling member printed	Lord Kempsell
uin	HL644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>The UK has a number of excellent electromagnetic warfare capabilities; given the highly competitive nature of electromagnetic warfare, the Ministry of Defence will consider how best to keep pace with this challenge as part of the Strategic Defence Review.</p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 16/09/2024 13:40:13 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	4988 label Biography information for Lord Kempsell

1726541

registered interest
date	02/09/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces and Diplomatic Service: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) armed forces, and (2) diplomatic families, currently receive support via the Continuity of Education Allowance; and what were the numbers supported each year since 2019.
tabling member printed	Lord Kempsell
uin	HL645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence currently has <strong>2,666*</strong> Armed Forces personnel receiving MOD’s Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) The number supported since 2019 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Armed Forces Personnel</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>2,908</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>2,843</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>2,826</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>2,759</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*as at Academic Year 2023-24</p><p> </p><p>(2) The FCDO currently have <strong>328</strong> diplomatic families claiming Continuity of Education Allowance. The number supported since 2019 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of FCDO Civil Servants</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019-20</p></td><td><p>281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020-21</p></td><td><p>315</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021-22</p></td><td><p>349</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022-23</p></td><td><p>341</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Coaker question first answered 16/09/2024 13:07:17 answering member 360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker
tabling member	4988 label Biography information for Lord Kempsell