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1178633

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding has been allocated to helping members of the armed forces transition back to civilian life in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	14981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 February 2020 to Question 13448 to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas).</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 17/02/2020 14:33:05 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer attachment 1 file name 13448 - MOD Veterans Employment.docx title 13448 - MOD Veterans Employment
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1173383

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the equity of paying the equivalent of (a) £6.28 an hour for a newly trained army reservist, or (b) £4.68 an hour for a new recruit to the army reserves.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	8320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer on 9 September 2019 to Questions 286771, 286772, 286773 and 286774.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 8321 question first answered 30/01/2020 14:51:09 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer attachment 1 file name 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay.docx title 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

1173384

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) army reserves rates of pay and (b) the method by which those rates are calculated from regular army pay scales.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	8321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2020 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my previous answer on 9 September 2019 to Questions 286771, 286772, 286773 and 286774.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer grouped question UIN 8320 question first answered 30/01/2020 14:51:09 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer attachment 1 file name 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay.docx title 286771 - Reserve Forces Pay
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

1301357

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many female service personnel had an abortion whilst serving between 2000 and 2020; and how many were subsequently discharged from service after the termination.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	166450
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>Between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2020, 1,275 Armed Forces personnel had a read code in their electronic medical record for a termination of pregnancy. Like for like data prior to 1 January 2010 is not held, as this preceded the roll-out of the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme, the source of electronic, integrated healthcare records of Armed Forces personnel.</p><p>Of the 1,275 personnel, 486 are no longer serving as at 1 January 2021. It is not possible to determine an association between their termination of pregnancy and subsequent discharge from service. However, between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2020 there were no medical discharges officially recorded with a principal or contributory cause of termination of pregnancy.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 15/03/2021 10:22:40 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1642118

	registered interest
	date	06/06/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Afghanistan Veterans' Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Afghanistan Veterans' Fund at achieving its objectives.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	188020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>In September 2021, the Government announced that Armed Forces charities would receive £5 million in additional funding to support veterans, including those who may be struggling following events in Afghanistan.</p><p> </p><p>Whilst a full qualitative and quantitative analysis of this funding will be undertaken by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (AFCFT), who have administered this on behalf of the Office for Veterans’ Affairs, at the appropriate time, the AFCFT has already seen positive impacts during their mid-programmes reviews.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 15/06/2023 09:17:57 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1309390

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Immigration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan (a) present and (b) former (i) interpreters (ii) other locally employed civilians have applied for resettlement to the UK and are currently awaiting a decision; whether all such applications will be fully decided before 11 September 2021; what arrangements will exist after that date to enable further applications to be made in the event that the security situation deteriorates; and if he will take immediate steps to ensure that applications to resettle in the UK made by bona fide former employees of UK armed forces receive positive responses.
	tabling member constituency	New Forest East
	tabling member printed	Dr Julian Lewis
	uin	181176
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Government has so far relocated 1,358 locally employed Afghan staff and their families to the UK. A total of 532 eligible locally employed staff have applied for relocation to the UK, of which 84 are currently awaiting a decision. Of these, all but six are interpreters and all are former locally employed staff. These applications will be fully decided before 11 September 2021. I cannot comment on arrangements to enable further applications to be made after that date in the event that the security situation deteriorates, as doing so would require me to reveal the details of live operational planning. I have tasked my officials to work in concert with partners across government to explore all options to ensure that current and former locally employed staff who are eligible for relocation under the terms of the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy and the Ex-Gratia Scheme are relocated.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 20/04/2021 14:14:01 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
	tabling member	54 label Biography information for Sir Julian Lewis

1242097

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Afghanistan: Interpreters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many locally employed civilian interpreters (a) began employment and (b) ended employment following (i) dismissal for disciplinary reasons, (ii) redundancy, (iii) expiry of their contract and (iv) another reason with the UK Government in Afghanistan in each month from October 2001 to December 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	101279
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2020 answer text <p>The requested data is provided in the attached spreadsheet.</p><p> </p><p>The data has been compiled by defence officials from a variety of sources, including pay records, Personnel files, patrol reporting and other archived records. Some data was destroyed in 2011 during a significant fire in the Camp Bastian Labour Support Unit which limits assurance. In particular there is a very small difference between the total recorded as commencing and of ceasing employment over the entire period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 14/10/2020 16:34:35 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer attachment 1 file name Copy of PQ101279 Afghan LEC.xlsx title Afghan Interpreters - Locally Employed Civilians
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1177997

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what changes to the duty of care for armed forces personnel have been introduced under the Defence Safety Authority since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	1174
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of our personnel remains our top priority. Many elements of our training carry risk, and it is regularly assessed and monitored. The Defence Safety Authority (DSA) works in tandem with the new Director of Health Safety and Environmental Protection (D HS&amp;EP), appointed in March 2019, to assist the Permanent Secretary in discharging his HS&amp;EP responsibilities. Since 2015, the DSA has made a significant contribution to the development of the Ministry of Defence's Safety approach, including:</p><p>a. Supporting the introduction of the Defence Safety &amp; Environmental Committee (DSEC), chaired by the Permanent Secretary, to improve oversight of the duty of care and risk associated with defence activities;</p><p>b. The establishment, in 2016, of a pan-domain standardised approach to Duty Holding for managing hazardous activities that represent a credible and foreseeable Risk to Life. The Duty Holder role being to balance and reduce the risk to as low as reasonably practicable and tolerable with due regard to the strategic benefits required from Defence; and</p><p>c. The publication of new guidance and regulations setting out rules and standards for Defence HS&amp;EP, in line with the Defence Secretary's Policy Statement for all HS&amp;EP matters in Defence. These include chapters on the duty holding construct and duty of care on deployments. Those appropriate for the Gov.uk website are available at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implementation-of-defence-policy-for-health-safety-and-environmental-protection-dsa-012</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 24/02/2020 14:54:20 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1175931

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent steps he has taken to ensure that people who leave the armed forces are prepared for civilian life.
	tabling member constituency	Slough
	tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
	uin	12321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>As part of the ten-year vision articulated in the <em>Strategy for our Veterans</em>, the Ministry of Defence introduced a 'Defence Holistic Transition' policy in October 2019. 'Defence Transition Services' (DTS) was established at the same time, to support those Service leavers who face the greatest challenges to making a successful transition to civilian life. The full-spectrum service is available to all Service leavers exiting the Armed Forces and is based on the needs of the individual, providing the specific support they may need and interventions to ensure issues are resolved. This support extends for two years after discharge and longer if necessary.</p><p>All Regular Service personnel leaving the Armed Forces are provided with employment support and training delivered through the Career Transition Partnership (CTP). Service personnel leaving the Regular Armed Forces are entitled to access CTP resettlement services two years prior to their discharge date and for two years post-discharge.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 10/02/2020 15:29:49 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
	tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1225796

	registered interest
	date	16/07/2020
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, how many claims for noise-related hearing loss were settled between 2015 to 2019; and what the total amount of compensation paid out through that scheme was for those claims.
	tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
	tabling member printed	John Healey
	uin	75198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2020 answer text <p>Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is considered under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS).</p><p>Between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2019, under the AFCS, 797 claims were awarded for NIHL. As at 31 May 2020, £5,868,720.00 had been awarded in lump sums and £1,023,931.00 in Guaranteed Income Payments.</p> answering member constituency Plymouth, Moor View answering member printed Johnny Mercer question first answered 21/07/2020 10:13:41 answering member 4485 label Biography information for Johnny Mercer
	tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey