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1338480

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2021
	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, whether it is the Government's policy to work to a target date of September 2021, in alignment with the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy, to extract the wives and children of the Afghan interpreters who are currently in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	19672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2021 answer text <p>We are significantly accelerating the pace of relocations in parallel with the military withdrawal, this includes eligible spouses and families who were left in Afghanistan when the staff member relocated to the UK. Our commitment to those who are eligible under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP), and the process to deliver it, is not time-limited and will endure.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 28/06/2021 13:33:23 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1338483

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2021
	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, what support the Government is providing to Afghan interpreters who have fled that country and are now processed in third-country asylum systems, in circumstances where they cannot apply for relocation to the UK from a third country.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	19674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2021 answer text <p>Our priority is to relocate those applicants currently in Afghanistan where they are likely to face the greatest risk. Applications are made online or by phone initially. We will always consider exceptionally compelling and compassionate circumstances on a case-by-case basis.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 28/06/2021 13:33:47 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1348445

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Wrecks: Protection
	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 potential merits of using underwater drones to protect sunken Royal Navy ships.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	35880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) considers the wrecks of many Royal Navy ships to be the final resting place of Service personnel, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and should be allowed to rest in peace.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Navy is accelerating its drive towards un-crewed and fully autonomous capabilities for the underwater, surface and air environments, and is exploring as part of its future capability planning work the operational opportunities new technologies provide.</p><p> </p><p>No formal discussions have taken place with the US Government regarding the joint provision of underwater drones to monitor the wrecks of Royal Navy warships.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 35881 35882 question first answered 27/07/2021 13:27:37 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1348446

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Wrecks: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what funding he has allocated to projects that protect and monitor sunken Royal Navy ships from scavengers in the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	35881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) considers the wrecks of many Royal Navy ships to be the final resting place of Service personnel, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and should be allowed to rest in peace.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Navy is accelerating its drive towards un-crewed and fully autonomous capabilities for the underwater, surface and air environments, and is exploring as part of its future capability planning work the operational opportunities new technologies provide.</p><p> </p><p>No formal discussions have taken place with the US Government regarding the joint provision of underwater drones to monitor the wrecks of Royal Navy warships.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 35880 35882 question first answered 27/07/2021 13:27:37 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1348447

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Wrecks: Protection
	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 US counterpart on the joint provision of underwater drones to monitor wrecks of sunken Royal Navy warships.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	35882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) considers the wrecks of many Royal Navy ships to be the final resting place of Service personnel, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and should be allowed to rest in peace.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Navy is accelerating its drive towards un-crewed and fully autonomous capabilities for the underwater, surface and air environments, and is exploring as part of its future capability planning work the operational opportunities new technologies provide.</p><p> </p><p>No formal discussions have taken place with the US Government regarding the joint provision of underwater drones to monitor the wrecks of Royal Navy warships.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 35880 35881 question first answered 27/07/2021 13:27:37 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1361380

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: Radicalism
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has a strategy to tackle incel culture in the Armed Forces.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	59027
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) ​has a broad programme of work to drive culture change; this does not specifically focus on an incel (involuntary celibate) culture.</p><p> </p><p>The MOD has made it absolutely clear there is no place for unacceptable behaviour in the Armed Forces. Anyone found to fall short of the Services’ high ​values and standards or ​found to have committed an offence is dealt with appropriately, which may include imprisonment and dismissal from Service.</p><p> </p><p>Defence set up the Directorate of Diversity and Inclusion (D&amp;I) in April 2021, which brings together D&amp;I, behaviours, service complaints and the service justice policy areas for the first time. This D&amp;I Directorate has a pan-Defence responsibility for D&amp;I and through cohering activity, sharing leading practice, assessing and assuring progress, it will support ​a more inclusive and operationally effective ​organisation.</p><p> </p><p>Defence ​continues to implement the recommendations from the Wigston Review into inappropriate behaviour and those made in the 2020 progress review led by Danuta Gray, which concluded that good progress had been made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 27/10/2021 16:48:14 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1361386

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Falkland Islands: Devonport Dockyard
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to recognise the contribution of dockyard workers in Devonport from 1982 in the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands in 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	59033
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2021 answer text <p>Her Majesty's Naval Base Devonport is working with organisations across the city of Plymouth on a series of events to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict. Within Devonport Dockyard an event and commemorative plaque will mark the occasion of the departure of the first Task Force units from Plymouth, the people that made it possible, and the loved ones they left behind.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 25/10/2021 12:36:56 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1365958

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Ministry Of Defence: Ivory
	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 ivory items in the possession of his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	69188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence has not made any estimates of the number of ivory items owned by or collated by the Department or institutions owned or managed by the Government.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 09/11/2021 13:33:59 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1384281

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many armed forces personnel from each service have been discharged because of their HIV status in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	86186
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2021 answer text <p>Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2021, 30 UK Regular Armed Forces personnel were medically discharged with an ICD-10 code for HIV cited as the principal or contributory cause. The following table provides a breakdown by service and year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year (1 April to 31 March)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Royal Navy</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Army</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>RAF</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>~</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>~</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Both principal and contributory causes have been included as it is possible for personnel to be medically discharged for multiple medical reasons.</p><p> </p><p>The figures provided include Regular service personnel (trained and untrained). Army Regular personnel include Gurkha and Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS). Reserve personnel were not included. Royal Navy personnel include both Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Figures fewer than five have been suppressed and are represented by a ~.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 10/12/2021 12:01:01 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard

1418447

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armed Forces: HIV Infection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on what date the new policy allowing people living with HIV to join the UK Armed Forces will be implemented.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
	uin	114925
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2022 answer text <p>Recognising advancements in its medical management, on World AIDS Day last year the Government announced that being HIV positive will no longer be a barrier to serving in uniform. As a modern and inclusive employer, we are making changes that will make it easier for those with HIV to pursue an Armed Forces career.</p><p>Since the announcement on World AIDS day, those using PrEP have been able to join and serve in the Armed Forces without restrictions. Armed Forces employment policies and recruitment processes have been revised to allow this.</p><p> </p><p>For those living with HIV who wish to join and serve without restrictions, a number of medical policy changes are expected to be agreed by the end of March 2022, with implementation following shortly after. A further Government announcement will be made about this to inform the public.</p><p> </p><p>Serving personnel living with HIV can already be considered fully fit for operations, subject to a satisfactory risk assessment outcome. Proposed policy changes will remove the requirement for a formal risk assessment. Implementation of the revised policy will see affected personnel reviewed in accordance with existing processes, with medical restrictions being removed as appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to these important policy changes, Defence has committed funding to extend and improve its sexual health promotion and testing campaign. Defence primary healthcare and other clinical care providers are continuing to receive enhanced education, in order to broaden the access to sexual health services for all serving Armed Forces personnel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 114926 114927 114928 114929 114930 question first answered 04/02/2022 10:41:13 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
	tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard