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1611696

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the maximum level of Continuity of Education Allowance payments provided by his Department was for (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils in the financial year 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. This is because the Joint Personnel Administration system does not record the stage of education on individual claims.</p><p>JSP 752 details maximum rates payable per term, with effect from 1 August 2022, for each stage of education as follows:</p><p>Primary £6,380</p><p>Secondary £8,047</p><p>The figures have been taken from the published information available on the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jsp-752-tri-service-regulations-for-expenses-and-allowances</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 24/04/2023 14:47:09 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611697

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the cost to the public purse of private school fees for children of civilian employees in the financial year 2022-23; and and if he will provide a breakdown by pay grade of those who claimed that funding.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>From 31 March 2022 to 31 March 2023 £369,810.65 has been paid for the provision of boarding school or day school allowance in areas where there are no MOD schools or the curriculum does not provide appropriate courses.</p><p> </p><p>The pay grade of staff who have claimed this allowance are broken down in the table below. Please note that ~ denotes a number fewer than 5.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Grade</p></td><td><p>Number</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Head Teacher</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Assistant Head Teacher</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Teacher</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Engineer</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Physiotherapist</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Education</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 24/04/2023 15:51:17 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611699

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Boilers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the boilers replaced in (a) Service Family Accommodation and (b) Single Living Accommodation in the Financial Year 2022-23 were gas boilers.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>1,257 out of the total number of 1,446 boilers replaced in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) in the financial year 2022-23 were gas.</p><p>Data for boilers in Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is not held centrally; the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 24/04/2023 17:09:34 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611700

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Mould
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent in the Financial Year 2022-23 to (a) remove and (b) prevent incidents of damp and mould in (i) Service Family Accommodation and (ii) Single Living Accommodation.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>In Financial Year 2022-23, £4.3 million was spent on damp and mould remediation works in Service Family Accommodation (SFA). Over the last four years, the Department has invested a total of £150 million on works to prevent incidents of damp and mould in SFA.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Defence has a robust damp and mould management policy for SFA, and from the start of the Future Defence Infrastructure Services contract, let in April 2022, no properties with reported issues should have been allocated.</p><p> </p><p>Should damp and mould emerge during occupancy, we have set up a dedicated hotline for families to make a report. Reports are now investigated by a professional surveyor and, where appropriate, families should be offered alternative accommodation.</p><p> </p><p>Works to remove and prevent incidents of damp and mould in Single Living Accommodation (SLA) are dealt with as part of the core contract in place for the Built Estate and therefore, we are unable to provide a breakdown of the money spent on damp and mould removal or prevention.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 24/04/2023 14:57:44 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611444

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department allocated to the Continuity of Education Allowance in financial year 2022-23; how many children were covered by that funding; and if he will provide a breakdown of the ranks of the claimants of that allowance.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181072
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) assists Service personnel to achieve continuity of education for their children that would otherwise be denied in the state-maintained day school sector due to the mobility of their family, because of consecutive assignments. CEA is available to all Service personnel, irrespective of rank, subject to them satisfying the qualifying criteria. Service personnel may select from a wide variety of schools across the UK from within the independent and state-maintained sectors that meet set criteria. Each claimant is required to contribute at least 10 per cent of the fees at independent schools.</p><p> </p><p>As at 18 April 2023, the total spend on Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in Financial Year 2022-23 was £84.59 million. A total of 4,210 children were covered by that funding. The attached table details the number of children supported and the amount spent at each school on Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) by the Ministry of Defence in the financial year 2022-23.</p><p>The below table details the number of Service Personnel that have received CEA in 2022-23 broken down by NATO Rank.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NATO Rank</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count of Service Personnel</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF1</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF2</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF3</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF4</p></td><td><p>470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF5</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF6</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF7</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF8</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF9</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR2</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR3</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR4</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR6</p></td><td><p>370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR7</p></td><td><p>330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR8</p></td><td><p>220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR9</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>2,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>Rounded figures are to the nearest five, with numbers below five replaced by the tilde symbol ('~'). All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid systematic bias. Totals have been rounded separately and therefore may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.</p><p>Due to the possibility of rank changes in year between CEA claims, only the most senior rank for each individual has been retained in order to avoid counting the same individual twice.</p><p>An explanation of NATO rank equivalencies can be found at the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tri-service-pension-codes-april-2020/key-to-rank-codes-april-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tri-service-pension-codes-april-2020/key-to-rank-codes-april-2020</a></p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 181073 question first answered 20/04/2023 10:50:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name 20230418- PQN_22-23_2023_04879 (181073)- Pollard- Supporting table.xlsx title Continuity of Education Allowance
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611445

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will provide a breakdown of the (a) Continuity of Education Allowance allocated to each school in financial year 2022-23 and (b) number of places funded at each school in that year.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) assists Service personnel to achieve continuity of education for their children that would otherwise be denied in the state-maintained day school sector due to the mobility of their family, because of consecutive assignments. CEA is available to all Service personnel, irrespective of rank, subject to them satisfying the qualifying criteria. Service personnel may select from a wide variety of schools across the UK from within the independent and state-maintained sectors that meet set criteria. Each claimant is required to contribute at least 10 per cent of the fees at independent schools.</p><p> </p><p>As at 18 April 2023, the total spend on Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in Financial Year 2022-23 was £84.59 million. A total of 4,210 children were covered by that funding. The attached table details the number of children supported and the amount spent at each school on Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) by the Ministry of Defence in the financial year 2022-23.</p><p>The below table details the number of Service Personnel that have received CEA in 2022-23 broken down by NATO Rank.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NATO Rank</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Count of Service Personnel</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF1</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF2</p></td><td><p>270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF3</p></td><td><p>360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF4</p></td><td><p>470</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF5</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF6</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF7</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF8</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OF9</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR2</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR3</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR4</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR6</p></td><td><p>370</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR7</p></td><td><p>330</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR8</p></td><td><p>220</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OR9</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>2,800</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>Rounded figures are to the nearest five, with numbers below five replaced by the tilde symbol ('~'). All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10, numbers ending in 5 have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to avoid systematic bias. Totals have been rounded separately and therefore may not equal the sum of their rounded parts.</p><p>Due to the possibility of rank changes in year between CEA claims, only the most senior rank for each individual has been retained in order to avoid counting the same individual twice.</p><p>An explanation of NATO rank equivalencies can be found at the following website: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tri-service-pension-codes-april-2020/key-to-rank-codes-april-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tri-service-pension-codes-april-2020/key-to-rank-codes-april-2020</a></p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison grouped question UIN 181072 question first answered 20/04/2023 10:50:24 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison attachment 1 file name 20230418- PQN_22-23_2023_04879 (181073)- Pollard- Supporting table.xlsx title Continuity of Education Allowance
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611446

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many boilers were replaced in (a) Service Family Accommodation and (b) Single Living Accommodation in financial year 2022-23; and what the cost to his Department of those replacements was.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The total number of boilers replaced in Service Family Accommodation in the financial year 2022-23 was 1,446 at a cost of c£3.1 million.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the format in which Single Living Accommodation data is recorded, the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 20/04/2023 12:07:26 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611447

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 165250 on Ministry of Defence: Housing, if he will provide a breakdown of what the £73 million from the service family accommodation improvement budget spent by his Department for the financial year 2022-23 was spent on.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181075
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows how the £73 million Service Families Accommodation improvement budget for financial year (FY) 2022-23 was spent. Please note many projects span more than one FY, so figures also include expenditure attributed to a type of works which may have begun prior to the start of or after the end of FY 2022-23.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Type of Works</p></td><td><p>Costs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Damp and Mould Remediation Works</p></td><td><p>£4.3 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doors and Windows Replacement</p></td><td><p>£12.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>External Wall Insulation (includes new doors and windows and roof replacement)</p></td><td><p>£43 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heating replacements</p></td><td><p>£2.5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kitchen trials (updated kitchen specification trials)</p></td><td><p>£42,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Playparks</p></td><td><p>£5 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SFA Refurbishment</p></td><td><p>£1.8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Roof replacement</p></td><td><p>£8 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Streetlight replacement</p></td><td><p>£295,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Structural repair (bringing void properties back online)</p></td><td><p>£500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wire moves – to allow for handback of SFA to Annington Homes</p></td><td><p>£2.6 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Road Resurfacing</p></td><td><p>£1 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>c£81 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 20/04/2023 10:57:27 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1611448

registered interest
date	17/04/2023
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many boilers there are in (a) Service Family Accommodation and (b) Single living accommodation; and how many of those boilers are over (i) 10 and (ii) 15 years old.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	181076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2023 answer text <p>There are a total of 47,448 boilers in Service Family Accommodation (SFA). Of these, 1,366 have no boiler age recorded. The total number of boilers in SFA which are between 10 and 15 years old is 41,237.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 2,500 boilers are replaced annually within SFA.</p><p> </p><p>Due to the format in which Single Living Accommodation data is recorded, the information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 20/04/2023 11:00:03 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1609782

registered interest
date	14/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Military Bases: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many callouts have been made to (a) St George’s Barracks, (b) Kendrew Barracks and (c) RAF Wittering for maintenance issues relating to (i) roofing, (ii) heating, (iii) sewage and (iv) pest control in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	179915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Once Ministry of Defence officials have finalised collation of the necessary information my hon. Friend, the Minister for Defence Procurement, will write to the right hon. Member and place a copy of his letter in the Library of the House.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 24/04/2023 15:08:25 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard