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872276

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence: Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding his Department allocated to (a) submarines, (b) combat air, (c) air support, (d) ships, (e) helicopters, (f) land equipment, (g) weapons and (h) intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
	uin	134190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2018 answer text <p>A breakdown of the budgets issued to the eight main Defence Equipment and Support Operating Centres in financial year 2016-17 is shown below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Operating Centre</p></td><td><p>2016-17 (£millions)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Submarines</p></td><td><p>3,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Combat Air</p></td><td><p>2,229</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Air Support</p></td><td><p>1,374</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ships</p></td><td><p>2,008</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Helicopters</p></td><td><p>917</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Land Equipment</p></td><td><p>1,116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Weapons</p></td><td><p>1,262</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ISTAR</p></td><td><p>416</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 03/04/2018 15:08:02 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

872370

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Languages
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel in the (a) Army, (b) RAF and (c) Royal Navy are classed as level 3 or higher linguists in (i) Arabic, (ii) Russian, (iii) Ukrainian, iv) German and (v) French.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
	uin	134284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2018 answer text <p>There are approximately 850 Service personnel across the Ministry of Defence (MOD) trained in some 40 different languages. It is not possible to provide a detailed breakdown because of the strategic and operational sensitivities surrounding them. The MOD's language requirements are met from a Departmental pool of Armed forces and civilian personnel; the Department regularly reviews its future requirements for linguists and trains its personnel accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 05/04/2018 15:41:20 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

872318

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Galileo System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date he received correspondence from the European Commission on the UK's future relationship with the Galileo satellite project.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	134232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>On 24 January 2018 the UK Permanent Representative to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, received notice that the UK would no longer be allowed access to information about the future design of the Galileo satellite navigation programme because this could compromise the integrity of the system following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU.</p><p>Since receiving this letter, the Secretary of State for Defence has raised the issue with his EU counterparts on several occasions, including at February's meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, and in subsequent bilateral contacts. He emphasised that we have a world-leading space sector that has contributed a significant amount of specialist expertise, time and money to the Galileo programme, and that we have a shared interest in continuing a close partnership on Galileo. He made clear that the UK would seek to overturn this decision and expressed his belief that the UK's exclusion would not be in the interests of the Galileo programme or our EU partners. We are unambiguously committed to European security and we hope that an ambitious partnership on security matters will be a core component of our future relationship with the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb grouped question UIN 134233 question first answered 29/03/2018 14:04:17 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

872319

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Galileo System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on the UK's future relationship with the Galileo satellite project.
	tabling member constituency	Llanelli
	tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
	uin	134233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>On 24 January 2018 the UK Permanent Representative to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, received notice that the UK would no longer be allowed access to information about the future design of the Galileo satellite navigation programme because this could compromise the integrity of the system following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU.</p><p>Since receiving this letter, the Secretary of State for Defence has raised the issue with his EU counterparts on several occasions, including at February's meeting of NATO Defence Ministers, and in subsequent bilateral contacts. He emphasised that we have a world-leading space sector that has contributed a significant amount of specialist expertise, time and money to the Galileo programme, and that we have a shared interest in continuing a close partnership on Galileo. He made clear that the UK would seek to overturn this decision and expressed his belief that the UK's exclusion would not be in the interests of the Galileo programme or our EU partners. We are unambiguously committed to European security and we hope that an ambitious partnership on security matters will be a core component of our future relationship with the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb grouped question UIN 134232 question first answered 29/03/2018 14:04:17 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith