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48178

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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 levels of stock his Department holds of (a) stationery, (b) printer cartridges, (c) treasury tags and other fasteners and (d) other office consumables.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	196201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

48179

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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 recent assessment he has made of the (a) associated costs and (b) utility of the Trident Alternatives Review.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	196225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>I have made no such assessment.</p> answering member constituency Runnymede and Weybridge answering member printed Mr Philip Hammond question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 105 label Biography information for Lord Hammond of Runnymede
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth

48180

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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, when Ministers in his last met their counterparts from (a) Norway, (b) Finland and (c) Sweden.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	196262
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>Defence Ministers meet their counterparts regularly at multinational meetings throughout the year. The Secretary of State for Defence most recently met the Defence Ministers of Norway, Finland and Sweden at the Northern Group meeting in Helsinki in December 2013, and I had a bilateral meeting with the Defence Minister of Sweden at the EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) meeting in Luxemboug in April 2014.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

48181

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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 recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in (a) Latvia, (b) Lithuania and (c) Estonia about strengthening defence and security relationships with those countries.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	Mr John Spellar
uin	196264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>I regularly engage with my Baltic counterparts, including through EU and NATO meetings. I visited Latvia and Lithuania in September 2013; and I intend to visit the region again in the very near future.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2013 I visited Estonia where I signed the General Defence Engagement Memorandum of Understanding between our two countries.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Runnymede and Weybridge answering member printed Mr Philip Hammond question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 105 label Biography information for Lord Hammond of Runnymede
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

48183

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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 members of the service complaints investigation teams there are in each branch of the armed forces; what their qualifications are; what training is provided to them; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	196362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry Of Defence maintains a cadre of Harassment Investigation Officers who investigate complaints raised within the Services and by MOD civilians concerning bullying and harassment, and who are not permanent employees of the Department; Appendix six to the 2013 Annual Report of the Service Complaints Commissioner provides further details. Beyond this centrally-managed team, the three Services maintain teams of investigators, many of whom are drawn from their own Service police force, who can investigate complex complaints.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Navy has one Complaint Investigation and Mediation Team (CIMT), comprising two members of the Royal Navy Police with many years of investigative experience. In addition to their extensive police investigative training, they are Equality and Diversity Advisers, and have undertaken the MOD Harassment Investigation Course and professional Mediation Training (through an external training provider).</p><p> </p><p>The Army currently has six permanent members and three temporary assigned (12 months) soldiers in its Service Complaints Investigation Team (SCIT), which replaced the Equal Opportunities Investigation Team. All members of the SCIT are serving Senior Non-Commissioned Officers from the Royal Military Police, and hold the following qualifications:</p><p> </p><p>Initial Military Police Investigation Course</p><p>Volume Crime Investigation Course</p><p>Management Investigation Course</p><p>Police and Criminal Evidence Act Interviewing Course</p><p>Disclosure Officers Course</p><p>Equality &amp; Diversity Advisor Course</p><p> </p><p>On arrival in the SCIT, investigators receive work place training and are allocated a supervising investigator for a period of three months or as necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The RAF has a Service Complaints Team, and an Equal Opportunities Investigation Team (EOIT), which investigates complex equality and diversity complaints. The latter team comprises a Warrant Officer and a Flight Sergeant, both members of the RAF Police, and an administrator. The investigators complete the following courses as part of their role training:</p><p> </p><p>Equality and Diversity Advisor</p><p>Harassment Investigation Officer</p><p>Fundamentals of Employment Law (through CIPD)</p><p>Preparing for Employment Tribunal (through CIPD)</p><p>Certificate in Bullying and Harassment Investigation – City and Guilds</p><p>Level 4</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 196361 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

48184

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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 equal opportunities investigation officers there are in each branch of the armed forces; what their qualifications are; what training is provided to them; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	196361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry Of Defence maintains a cadre of Harassment Investigation Officers who investigate complaints raised within the Services and by MOD civilians concerning bullying and harassment, and who are not permanent employees of the Department; Appendix six to the 2013 Annual Report of the Service Complaints Commissioner provides further details. Beyond this centrally-managed team, the three Services maintain teams of investigators, many of whom are drawn from their own Service police force, who can investigate complex complaints.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal Navy has one Complaint Investigation and Mediation Team (CIMT), comprising two members of the Royal Navy Police with many years of investigative experience. In addition to their extensive police investigative training, they are Equality and Diversity Advisers, and have undertaken the MOD Harassment Investigation Course and professional Mediation Training (through an external training provider).</p><p> </p><p>The Army currently has six permanent members and three temporary assigned (12 months) soldiers in its Service Complaints Investigation Team (SCIT), which replaced the Equal Opportunities Investigation Team. All members of the SCIT are serving Senior Non-Commissioned Officers from the Royal Military Police, and hold the following qualifications:</p><p> </p><p>Initial Military Police Investigation Course</p><p>Volume Crime Investigation Course</p><p>Management Investigation Course</p><p>Police and Criminal Evidence Act Interviewing Course</p><p>Disclosure Officers Course</p><p>Equality &amp; Diversity Advisor Course</p><p> </p><p>On arrival in the SCIT, investigators receive work place training and are allocated a supervising investigator for a period of three months or as necessary.</p><p> </p><p>The RAF has a Service Complaints Team, and an Equal Opportunities Investigation Team (EOIT), which investigates complex equality and diversity complaints. The latter team comprises a Warrant Officer and a Flight Sergeant, both members of the RAF Police, and an administrator. The investigators complete the following courses as part of their role training:</p><p> </p><p>Equality and Diversity Advisor</p><p>Harassment Investigation Officer</p><p>Fundamentals of Employment Law (through CIPD)</p><p>Preparing for Employment Tribunal (through CIPD)</p><p>Certificate in Bullying and Harassment Investigation – City and Guilds</p><p>Level 4</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 196362 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

48185

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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 readiness to defend its Overseas Territories in the event of attack.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	196321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) regularly consults with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and other Government Departments and intelligence agencies, as well as our allies and partners, constantly to review or identify potential threats to UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs). In the first instance the MOD seeks to deter such attacks using deterrence measures including, where necessary, permanently based military garrisons or dedicated patrols, visits by deployed military forces, and more broadly the maintenance of world class deployable military forces. Should deterrence fail to prevent an attack, the Department remains confident that it has the necessary contingency plans and high readiness deployable forces in the UK and elsewhere to respond accordingly to any attack on a UKOT.</p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

47925

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
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 his Department spent on (a) armed forces recruitment and (b) armed forces recruitment marketing in 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Belfast East
tabling member printed	Naomi Long
uin	196069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence does not report the costs of recruitment marketing separately. The costs detailed in the following table show the total cost of regular recruiting by Service and include manpower costs; marketing campaigns (specific advertising); marketing operations (provision of the recruiting process i.e. call centres and website maintenance), and contract costs (i.e. medical and fitness testing).It should be noted that despite the redundancy notice, the Armed Forces are required to constantly recruit every year to maintain the levels of young personnel entering the three services.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Royal Navy</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Army</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Royal Air Force</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>TOTAL </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£33.2million</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£122.8million</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£35.4million</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£191.4million</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3920 label Biography information for Naomi Long

47926

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
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 estimate he has made of the number of armoured fighting vehicles which will be (a) returned to the UK, (d) destroyed or (c) sold by the time of the main withdrawal from Afghanistan; and what the costs associated with each of those categories are to date.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
uin	196076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>All armoured fighting vehicles deployed to Afghanistan will be returned to the UK. None of these have been destroyed and none are currently due to be sold.</p><p> </p><p>The information on costs associated with this activity cannot be readily broken out from the wider costs of all equipment and personnel recovery.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rayleigh and Wickford answering member printed Mr Mark Francois question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois
tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

47927

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
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, when he last discussed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty with his counterparts from the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	196027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Secretary of State discusses a range of topics with his counterparts from the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council, including subjects related to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. However, engagement with our international partners on this Treaty is led by the Foreign Secretary.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby