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438036

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	USA: Military Aircraft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on his Department leasing Lockheed Orion P-3 aircraft from the US administration.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	19774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>I met Secretary Carter at the Pentagon on 11 December 2015 where we discussed our approach to delivering Maritime Patrol capability against the demanding timelines set out in the Strategic Defence and Security Review.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 21/12/2015 14:27:32 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438055

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving members of the regular Army have been transferred to the staff and personnel support branch in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	19815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Since 2010 the numbers of trained regular officers and soldiers transferring to the Adjutant General's Corps Staff and Personnel Support Branch, AGC(SPS), each calendar year are as follows:</p><p>2010 - 130</p><p>2011 - 160</p><p>2012 - 50</p><p>2013 - 40</p><p>2014 - 60</p><p>2015 to 31 October - 150</p><p>Where there is a shortage of key personnel, the Army offers a transfer bonus which is payable to soldiers upon successful completion of the transfer into the specified trade.</p><p>From 2010 to 2013, transfer bonus payments of £1,500 each were made to 73 soldiers who transferred into the AGC(SPS) as Military Clerks or Combat Human Resource Specialists. No payments were made from 2014 onwards. The amount spent each calendar year since 2010 is as follows:</p><p>2010 - £52,500</p><p>2011 - £51,000</p><p>2012 - £3,000</p><p>2013 - £3,000</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19816 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:11:35 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438056

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Army: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on bonuses for regular Army personnel who have been transferred to the staff and personnel support branch in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	19816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Since 2010 the numbers of trained regular officers and soldiers transferring to the Adjutant General's Corps Staff and Personnel Support Branch, AGC(SPS), each calendar year are as follows:</p><p>2010 - 130</p><p>2011 - 160</p><p>2012 - 50</p><p>2013 - 40</p><p>2014 - 60</p><p>2015 to 31 October - 150</p><p>Where there is a shortage of key personnel, the Army offers a transfer bonus which is payable to soldiers upon successful completion of the transfer into the specified trade.</p><p>From 2010 to 2013, transfer bonus payments of £1,500 each were made to 73 soldiers who transferred into the AGC(SPS) as Military Clerks or Combat Human Resource Specialists. No payments were made from 2014 onwards. The amount spent each calendar year since 2010 is as follows:</p><p>2010 - £52,500</p><p>2011 - £51,000</p><p>2012 - £3,000</p><p>2013 - £3,000</p> answering member constituency Milton Keynes North answering member printed Mark Lancaster grouped question UIN 19815 question first answered 18/12/2015 12:11:35 answering member 1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

438058

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Maritime Patrol Aircraft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Boeing P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft he expects to enter service in 2019-20.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	19776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Ministry of Defence is currently engaged in detailed negotiations on the Boeing P-8 Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft. As the Prime Minister announced to the House on 23 November 2015 (Official Report, column 1059), we intend for at least three of the aircraft to be in place by the end of the Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 21/12/2015 14:23:44 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1672201

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Leadership: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people in his Department have taken part in the Leading with Empowerment initiative since it was introduced.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	3107
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>1,531 people registered to take part in the Leading with Empowerment initiative, which ran across Defence from October 2021 to December 2022.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 27/11/2023 17:32:30 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1674375

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Personal Injury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 122 of his Department's publication entitled Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023, how many Settlements of Other Personal Injury were agreed in the 2022-2023 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	4625
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <p>13 cases were agreed in financial year 2022-23. The answer is based solely on the 'Other Personal Injury' claims category where damage payments over £300,000 were made in 2022-23 as published in MOD's Annual Report and Accounts but only those where the final settlement payment on damages has been made in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 05/12/2023 16:08:40 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1683453

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Defence Equipment & Support: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 18 of the Defence Equipment and Support Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, how many staff members have undertaken training in forensic accounting as of 18 January 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	10391
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>20 Defence Equipment and Support employees have undertaken training in forensic accounting as of 18 January 2024.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 26/01/2024 14:29:43 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1677760

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Training
	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 1 December 2023 to Question 3432 on Ministry of Defence: Fraud, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department have completed the Defence version of the Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption training package as of 13 December 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	6737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>83,085 (37%) Defence staff are recorded as having completed the Defence version of the Fraud, Bribery and Corruption training package hosted on the Defence Learning Environment since 13 December 2022 up to 13 December 2023. This does not include over 22,000 members of staff who have undertaken the Fraud, Bribery and Corruption course hosted on Civil Service Learning over the same period. Therefore some 47% of Defence staff have undertaken counter fraud awareness training in the past 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>Defence staff numbers are taken as 225,920, as set out in UK Defence in Numbers 2022 (page 17).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 20/12/2023 14:09:40 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1672714

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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 and War Pensions: Pain
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications were received under the (a) War Pensions and (b) Armed Forces Compensation scheme for (i) primary and (ii) secondary chronic pain conditions attributable to service in the last three years; and how many such applications were (A) granted, (B) refused and (C) outstanding.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	3439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p><strong>War Pension Scheme</strong></p><p>Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2023, a total of 1,403 people had a disablement claim for at least one chronic pain condition under the War Pension Scheme, as detailed in the tables below:</p><p> </p><p>War Pension Scheme claims for at least one chronic primary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 1-100%</p></td><td><p>656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 0%</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at an unknown disablement percentage</p></td><td><p>188</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>862</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>509</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,371</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>War Pension Scheme claims for at least one chronic secondary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 1-100%</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at a disablement percentage of 0%</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Received an award for their condition at an unknown disablement percentage</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>23</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>32</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Armed Forces Compensation Scheme </strong></p><p>Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2023, a total of 536 people registered an injury/illness claim for at least one chronic pain condition under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS), as detailed in the tables below:</p><p><br> AFCS claims for at least one chronic primary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Claim accepted and award received for their claim</p></td><td><p>320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Condition accepted, however no award received</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>340</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>183</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>523</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>AFCS claims for at least one chronic secondary pain condition, 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Claim accepted and award received for their claim</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Condition accepted, however no award received</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total accepted</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total rejected</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total cleared</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>13</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not possible to obtain condition information on outstanding claims under the WPS and AFCS. This is because the accepted/rejected medical condition information is only available to search once a claim has been cleared.</p><p> </p><p>Due to how the data is held and processed, the following should be noted:</p><p> </p><p><strong>WPS and AFCS<br> <br> </strong></p><ol><li>The information presented on WPS and AFCS relates to the number of people who have claimed for chronic pain.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Claimants identified with both a chronic primary and secondary pain condition have only been counted towards a primary condition to manage the risk of double counting.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="3"><li>Claimants who have multiple chronic pain related conditions within either primary or secondary have an outcome of ‘accepted’ if any of the conditions have been accepted; otherwise, they are recorded as an outcome of ‘rejected’.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 01/12/2023 12:03:19 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

1672632

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 79 of his Department's Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, how many people participated in the fraud, bribery and corruption training package in each year from 2019 to 2023 as of 23 November 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
	uin	3432
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>A Defence version of the Fraud Bribery &amp; Corruption online training package was launched in 2021 for civil servants with the single Service specific versions launched in May 2022. The participation data for these courses is only available from May 2022 for all 4 combined variants as set out below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>55,401</p></td><td><p>69,139</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to these figures, a proportion of Defence workers have continued to undertake the standard Civil Service version of the course hosted on the Civil Service Learning (CSL) platform. Defence continues to signpost its people to the MOD versions of the courses and has taken steps to remove the automatic reminders on CSL. Data for CSL is only available from 2021:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>2023</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>49,000</p></td><td><p>44,000</p></td><td><p>22,013</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Prior to May 2022, the training was only formally mandated for civil servants and service personnel who line managed civilian or contractors where their employer did not provide equivalent training.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 01/12/2023 12:00:55 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
	tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle