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1128816

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	There but Not There: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment has she made of the impact of money from the public purse disbursed to There But Not There.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	259465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2019 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 5 June 2019, to Question 257678.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 07/06/2019 11:21:07 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood attachment 1 file name Hansard Extract 5 June 2019, UIN 257678..docx title There But not There: Finance
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1128596

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	There but Not There: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding from the public purse her Department has allocated to the charity, There But Not There.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	257675
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The sum of £1,255,365 was spent on the Armistice and Armed Forces Communities programme awarded by the independent, LIBOR-funded Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust. The awards funded the purchase from There But Not There of silhouettes of First World War soldiers. A full list of community groups that received awards is published at:</p><p>https://www.covenantfund.org.uk/armistice-and-armed-forces-communities-programme-awards/</p><p>The purchased silhouettes of First World War soldiers are the property of the community groups, and they will be able to display them in years to come.</p><p>A report has been produced by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, published at:</p><p>https://www.covenantfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Armistice.pdf</p><p>2,773 awards were made across the United Kingdom. An evaluation of the programme showed that 69% of projects had brought communities together more than they were expecting; and that 75% of projects planned to do follow up work as a result of their event. Communities were highly positive about the impact the soldier silhouettes had on their events, reporting that they encouraged engagement between children and veterans.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 257678 question first answered 05/06/2019 14:57:58 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1128598

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what criteria her Department uses for making decisions on awarding money to charities through the Forces Covenant Fund.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	257677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>The Armed Forces Covenant Fund has £10 million per year to support Armed Forces communities and has four broad funding themes: removing barriers to family life; extra support after service for those that need help; measures to integrate military and civilian communities and allow the Armed Forces community to participate as citizens; non-core healthcare services for veterans.</p><p>The Fund is delivered by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, and Trustees decide on programme recommendations which are submitted to the cross-government Covenant Reference Group (CRG). Following approval by the CRG, these are delivered as priorities. Open and transparent criteria is published in the programme guidance documents and interested organisations apply in line with the published criteria. Applications are assessed, and expert advice may be sought where appropriate. Decisions on grants are made by the Trustees, and when funding is limited, grants are awarded to those applications which are based on a national portfolio perspective.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 04/06/2019 15:03:28 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1128599

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	There but Not There: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps her Department takes to assess the effectiveness of grants awarded to There But Not There.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	257678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>The sum of £1,255,365 was spent on the Armistice and Armed Forces Communities programme awarded by the independent, LIBOR-funded Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust. The awards funded the purchase from There But Not There of silhouettes of First World War soldiers. A full list of community groups that received awards is published at:</p><p>https://www.covenantfund.org.uk/armistice-and-armed-forces-communities-programme-awards/</p><p>The purchased silhouettes of First World War soldiers are the property of the community groups, and they will be able to display them in years to come.</p><p>A report has been produced by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust, published at:</p><p>https://www.covenantfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Armistice.pdf</p><p>2,773 awards were made across the United Kingdom. An evaluation of the programme showed that 69% of projects had brought communities together more than they were expecting; and that 75% of projects planned to do follow up work as a result of their event. Communities were highly positive about the impact the soldier silhouettes had on their events, reporting that they encouraged engagement between children and veterans.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood grouped question UIN 257675 question first answered 05/06/2019 14:57:58 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1128600

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces Covenant: Charities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if she will publish a list of all charities that have received support through the Forces Covenant Fund.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	257679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>A list of all charities that have received support through the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust is available on the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Website, published at: https://www.covenantfund.org.uk/grants-weve-funded/</p><p>Additionally, full reports of funding by year and annual summaries are published at: https://www.covenantfund.org.uk/our-impact/</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 04/06/2019 15:08:45 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1126065

registered interest
date	13/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which defence contracts were granted exemption from the single source regulation regime in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18; and what was the value of each of those contracts.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	253527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2019 answer text <p>All exemptions from the Single Source Contract Regulations have to be personally authorised by the Secretary of State, who only does so under exceptional circumstances. Between April 2015 and March 2018, fewer than 10 contracts were exempted, valued at less than 1% of the 19.4 billion worth of single source defence contracts brought under the regime during that period. These were exempted from the regulations on a variety of grounds, including when value for money assurance could be achieved through, for example, purchasing commercially priced items.</p><p>Details of individual contracts and the numbers exempted in each year have not been provided because disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of the companies involved or the Ministry of Defence.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 16/05/2019 15:18:14 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1125900

registered interest
date	10/05/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 31 Frigates: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the export strategy for the Type 31 frigate following increases to the construction costs of that frigate.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	252838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2019 answer text <p>We still want all five Type 31e Frigates at an average production price of £250 million per ship. We are confident that it will be competitively priced in the global export market.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 252885 252886 question first answered 15/05/2019 16:18:36 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1122642

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Type 26 Frigates
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 ensure that UK suppliers are supported during the manufacture of the Type 26 Frigate programme.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	246960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Procurement programmes do not routinely set the requirements on where equipment or components are manufactured or assembled, unless there is a national security requirement to do so. This is a matter for the equipment and component suppliers, and the lead contractors.</p><p>In both cases, the Aircraft Carrier Alliance whose membership consists of BAE Systems, Babcock and Thales UK, and the lead contractor for the Type 26 Frigate programme, BAE Systems, have selected the majority of sub-contractors for the programmes through competition. UK suppliers have had an equal opportunity to bid for work on the two programmes, with selections based on price and the ability of suppliers to meet schedule and performance requirements.</p><p>The majority of the structural steel for the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier programme was supplied by Tata UK and the programme as a whole sustained thousands of jobs throughout the UK supply chain. On the Type 26 programme to date, 64 sub-contracts have been awarded to UK based companies including the gas turbines (Rolls Royce), propulsion system (General Electric) and gearboxes (David Brown Gear Systems) and air weapons handling system (Babcock). We anticipate that more UK based sub-contractors will continue to be appointed as the programme progresses.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 246961 question first answered 29/04/2019 15:23:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1122644

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Aircraft Carriers: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department took to ensure that UK suppliers were supported throughout the concept, development and manufacturing phase of the Aircraft Carrier Programme.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	246961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2019 answer text <p>Procurement programmes do not routinely set the requirements on where equipment or components are manufactured or assembled, unless there is a national security requirement to do so. This is a matter for the equipment and component suppliers, and the lead contractors.</p><p>In both cases, the Aircraft Carrier Alliance whose membership consists of BAE Systems, Babcock and Thales UK, and the lead contractor for the Type 26 Frigate programme, BAE Systems, have selected the majority of sub-contractors for the programmes through competition. UK suppliers have had an equal opportunity to bid for work on the two programmes, with selections based on price and the ability of suppliers to meet schedule and performance requirements.</p><p>The majority of the structural steel for the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier programme was supplied by Tata UK and the programme as a whole sustained thousands of jobs throughout the UK supply chain. On the Type 26 programme to date, 64 sub-contracts have been awarded to UK based companies including the gas turbines (Rolls Royce), propulsion system (General Electric) and gearboxes (David Brown Gear Systems) and air weapons handling system (Babcock). We anticipate that more UK based sub-contractors will continue to be appointed as the programme progresses.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 246960 question first answered 29/04/2019 15:23:29 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1122803

registered interest
date	24/04/2019
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	KBR: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of whether the PFI arrangement with KBR to maintain a fleet of 92 heavy equipment transporters for the British Army will be renewed beyond 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	246963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2019 answer text <p>The current Heavy Equipment Transporter Private Finance Initiative contract expires in 2024. The requirement for the future transportation of heavy equipment will be developed prior to the expiry date with an appropriate contractual arrangement placed accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 03/05/2019 13:42:15 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones