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1415752

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Stonewall
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2022 to Question 106614 on Ministry of Defence: Stonewall, for what reason his Department did not maintain financial records of the £14,681 the Army spent on Stonewall in the 2017-18 financial year; and what his Department's requirements are for recording and retention of financial expenditure.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	110227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>In my response to Question 103509 on 18 January and to Question 106613 on 21 January, the Army spent £17,181 in FY2017-18. £2,500 of this was for Stonewall Membership. The remaining £14,681 was spent on Stonewall Conferences as well Stonewall training courses which are purchased on an ad-hoc basis by the Army LGBT+ network. As the full breakdown and specifics are held on archived IT systems it would take time to retrieve and collate the information in a more granular format.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>FY2017-18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Training</p></td><td><p>£13,641</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Conference Fees</p></td><td><p>£1,040</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Government policy is that financial records should be kept for up to seven years. Government departments and agencies’ accounts have to be laid before Parliament and are therefore preserved as published Parliamentary papers. Therefore, supporting documentation may be destroyed after any limitation periods have expired.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 27/01/2022 12:05:11 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1415847

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Mefloquine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department continues to apply the criteria introduced following the 2016 publication of the Defence Committee report (HC567) calling for restrictions on the prescribing of the antimalarial drug Lariam (Mefloquine) to Service personnel; if he will arrange for a consolidated table to be published of the twice-yearly data, subsequently compiled, showing the (a) number of individuals prescribed Lariam in each six-month period since such data began to be released, (b) percentages of those individuals prescribed Lariam who (i) did and (ii) did not receive face-to-face assessments, prior to the issuing of the prescriptions during each six-month period, and (c) totals of other antimalarials prescribed to Service personnel during each six-month period; whether it is his policy that the use of Lariam on a scale greater than that since 2016 should be permitted in future; and whether he accepts the original recommendation by the Defence Committee that Lariam should be designated as a drug of last resort, to be prescribed to Service personnel only (A) if an individual is unable to tolerate any of the available alternatives; (B) after a face-to-face individual risk assessment; and (C) after he or she has been made aware of the available alternatives and given the choice between such alternatives and Lariam; and whether his Department has an evidential basis for challenging evidence of serious side effects previously caused to some Service personnel when Lariam was widely dispensed within the Armed Forces.
tabling member constituency	New Forest East
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
uin	110226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) revised its malaria prevention policy in response to the Defence Select Committee Inquiry. As a result, it remains the policy that mefloquine only be prescribed to Service personnel by a doctor, after a face-to-face malaria health risk assessment and alternatives to mefloquine have been identified as unsuitable. There are no plans for this policy to change in the future.</p><p>The Government publishes official statistics every six months on Mefloquine Prescribing in UK Armed Forces. All future official statistics will include the supplementary table requested.</p><p>It is admitted, on the balance of probabilities, that as a prophylactic mefloquine can cause a range of minor to moderate psychiatric symptoms in certain individuals for a limited period of time. The causal relation between mefloquine and severe or long-term symptoms has not been shown. Whether it has caused any symptoms in individual cases will be a matter for expert evidence.</p><p>The issue of longer-term sequelae is currently being litigated and the MOD has the support of eminent experts in the fields of psychiatry, neuro-psychiatry, epidemiology, neurotoxicology and psychopharmacology whose evidence is privileged and will be disclosed in due course within the litigation. Their evidence is consistent in its conclusion that there is insufficient evidence to establish a link between taking mefloquine and long-term psychiatric illness or neurological damage.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 27/01/2022 10:30:13 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1415849

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	York: Military Bases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what value for money assessments he has conducted on the closure of his Department's barracks and facilities in York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	110455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The investment, and value for money, in providing modern and sustainable facilities for Armed Forces personnel moving from York has been and continues to be, evaluated at each stage of the project since it was announced in 2016. Further work is ongoing to assess requirements to effectively deliver Future Soldier. This work is being done in-line with Treasury and Department policy and guidance, to provide the facilities needed for a more agile Army.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 110456 110457 question first answered 27/01/2022 15:24:02 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1415850

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Imphal Barracks and Queen Elizabeth Barracks: Closures
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Joint Service Publication 507: Investment Appraisal and Evaluation, what steps he has taken to meet the requirements of that document while preparing to close (a) Queen Elizabeth Barracks and (b) Imphal Barracks.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	110456
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The investment, and value for money, in providing modern and sustainable facilities for Armed Forces personnel moving from York has been and continues to be, evaluated at each stage of the project since it was announced in 2016. Further work is ongoing to assess requirements to effectively deliver Future Soldier. This work is being done in-line with Treasury and Department policy and guidance, to provide the facilities needed for a more agile Army.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 110455 110457 question first answered 27/01/2022 15:24:03 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1415851

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	York: Military Bases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Joint Service Publication 507, what investment appraisal he has carried out on the proposed closure of (a) Imphal Barracks, (b) Queen Elizabeth Barracks and (c) other military facilities in York.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	110457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The investment, and value for money, in providing modern and sustainable facilities for Armed Forces personnel moving from York has been and continues to be, evaluated at each stage of the project since it was announced in 2016. Further work is ongoing to assess requirements to effectively deliver Future Soldier. This work is being done in-line with Treasury and Department policy and guidance, to provide the facilities needed for a more agile Army.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 110455 110456 question first answered 27/01/2022 15:24:03 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1415946

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department seeks references for candidates appointed to public positions which fall under the remit of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	110257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The Department has a robust recruitment process in place for appointments that are regulated by the Commissioner which is in line with the process and principles set out in the 2016 Governance Code on Public Appointments. It is Departmental policy to take up references for candidates shortlisted for interview and this is set out clearly in the candidate information pack for each recruitment campaign.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 27/01/2022 14:21:41 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

1416008

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Chinook Helicopters: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2021 to Question 10187, on Chinook Helicopters: Procurement, how many jobs are expected to be supported in the wider UK supply chain for manufacture and long-term support.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	110263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The current number of UK industry jobs supporting the Chinook helicopter fleet is estimated to exceed 450 across the UK defence supply chain. This includes around 100 jobs under the contract with BDUK to install state-of-the-art Infra-Red Suppression Systems across some of the Chinook fleet.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and US Governments reached agreement in March 2021 to procure a future Chinook Capability as part of the Chinook Capability Sustainment Programme. This long-term investment is highly likely to provide sustainment of UK supply chain jobs and opportunities in the support of the Chinook Platform.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 110264 question first answered 27/01/2022 10:51:15 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1416022

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Chinook Helicopters: Procurement
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 number of UK jobs created by the £64 million contract awarded to BDUK to improve the defence systems of the UK's Chinook fleet.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	110264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>The current number of UK industry jobs supporting the Chinook helicopter fleet is estimated to exceed 450 across the UK defence supply chain. This includes around 100 jobs under the contract with BDUK to install state-of-the-art Infra-Red Suppression Systems across some of the Chinook fleet.</p><p> </p><p>The UK and US Governments reached agreement in March 2021 to procure a future Chinook Capability as part of the Chinook Capability Sustainment Programme. This long-term investment is highly likely to provide sustainment of UK supply chain jobs and opportunities in the support of the Chinook Platform.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin grouped question UIN 110263 question first answered 27/01/2022 10:51:15 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1416028

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
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 veteran ID cards have been issued by his Department as of 24 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	110265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>Since December 2018, there have been 43,913 HM Armed Forces Veterans’ Recognition Cards issued to service leavers as part of phase one. Phase two will see the Cards made available to existing veterans. A forecast of the size of the veteran population is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/769727/20190107_Background_Quality_Report_-_Population_Projections_-_UK_Armed_Forces_Veterans_residing_in_Great_Britain_-_2016_to_2028.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/769727/20190107_Background_Quality_Report_-_Population_Projections_-_UK_Armed_Forces_Veterans_residing_in_Great_Britain_-_2016_to_2028.pdf</a></p><p>No estimate has been made as to how many of those are likely to apply for a Card.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 110266 question first answered 27/01/2022 11:59:18 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1416029

registered interest
date	24/01/2022
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 recent estimate has he made of the number of veterans eligible for a Veterans ID card who have yet to receive their Veterans ID card.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	110266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2022 answer text <p>Since December 2018, there have been 43,913 HM Armed Forces Veterans’ Recognition Cards issued to service leavers as part of phase one. Phase two will see the Cards made available to existing veterans. A forecast of the size of the veteran population is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/769727/20190107_Background_Quality_Report_-_Population_Projections_-_UK_Armed_Forces_Veterans_residing_in_Great_Britain_-_2016_to_2028.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/769727/20190107_Background_Quality_Report_-_Population_Projections_-_UK_Armed_Forces_Veterans_residing_in_Great_Britain_-_2016_to_2028.pdf</a></p><p>No estimate has been made as to how many of those are likely to apply for a Card.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 110265 question first answered 27/01/2022 11:59:18 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones