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1643359

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	A400M Aircraft: Parachuting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Royal Air Force's A400M aircraft have received clearance for low level parachuting capability.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The generation of evidence to support an initial clearance for the Low Level Parachute on Atlas is complete. However, a parachuting incident experienced by one of the Partner Nations has required mitigating action to be taken across the programme on safety grounds. Swift collaboration across the international programme has produced a minor modification for the aircraft but revised the transfer of the initial capability to the Front Line until September 2023. The full clearance of Low Level Parachute capability remains planned for January 2024.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 14/06/2023 16:56:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1643375

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2023 to Question 186306 on Office for Veterans' Affairs: Photography, what was the budget for the Cabinet Office Communications team in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>Setting out the budget may lead to inaccurate figures due to in-year budget changes. Instead, I can provide the actual spend.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office Communications team employs two Digital Media Officers who support all Ministers in the Department. This is an essential part of helping to explain the Department's policies and priorities to a wider audience, such budgets have existed under successive administrations.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The budget for Communications team staff, including the two Digital Media Officers, is held by the Director of Communications and is accounted for in line with Cabinet Office personnel budget management processes.</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>The total actual expenditure for the Cabinet Office Communications cost centre, for the periods in question is as follows:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FY</p></td><td><p>Total expenditure (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18/19</p></td><td><p>2,105,850.23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19/20</p></td><td><p>2,018,372.96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20/21</p></td><td><p>2,077,533.20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21/22</p></td><td><p>2,124,742.32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22/23</p></td><td><p>2,659,096.71</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 14/06/2023 16:43:59 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642540

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Submarines: Decommissioning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many decommissioned nuclear submarines were dismantled in each of the last five calendar years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Good progress continues to be made with dismantling decommissioned submarines in Rosyth. The first stage of dismantling, including the removal of all Low-Level radioactive Waste, has been completed on four platforms, Swiftsure, Resolution, Revenge and Repulse. Swiftsure will be the first submarine to be fully dismantled by the end of 2026.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 12/06/2023 14:48:48 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642541

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Nuclear Submarines: Decommissioning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many decommissioned nuclear submarines are yet to be dismantled as of 1 June 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188206
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>There are 22 decommissioned submarines awaiting disposal as of 1 June 2023.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 12/06/2023 14:40:15 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642542

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Antiship Missiles
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 when Sea Venom will reach Full Operating Capability.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Full Operating Capability will be delivered after the completion of the aircraft certification process, once the full number of aircraft and ships have been modified to carry Sea Venom, and the number of crews required support operating the capability have been trained.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 12/06/2023 16:02:38 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642659

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to answer Question 185195 tabled by the Rt hon. Member for North Durham on 16 May 2023.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>I responded to the right hon. Member on 9 June 2023.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 12/06/2023 08:17:14 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642756

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	English Channel: Surveillance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 7 June to Question 187056 on English Channel: Surveillance, what her Department's budget was for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations over the English Channel in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	188209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>This complex operating and budgetary landscape means that the question could only be definitively answered at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/06/2023 14:47:12 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642228

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government: Workplace Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will introduce regulation changes to protect current Local Government Pension Scheme members from planned changes to the national minimum pension age in April 2028.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	187913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Announcements will be set out in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 12/06/2023 16:33:32 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1642251

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Health: Working Hours
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the implementation of health checks on a regular basis by employers of night workers in the context of the Working Time Regulations; and what guidance his Department holds on the interpretation of what a regular basis constitutes to in carrying out these checks.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	187914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for the <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/contents/made" target="_blank">Working Time Regulations (WTR) 1998</a> which place duties on employers in respect of health assessments for night workers. <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1833/regulation/7/made" target="_blank">Regulation 7</a> requires employers to ensure that each night worker employed by them has the opportunity of a free health assessment at regular intervals. It is not mandatory for workers to take up this offer.</p><p> </p><p>There is no prescribed procedure for conducting a health assessment, but as a minimum, employers should construct a screening questionnaire compiled with guidance from a qualified health care professional. HSE <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/ocs/001-099/1_6-apendices/index.htm" target="_blank">online guidance</a> does not define the term “regular basis” but states that “the requirements in Regulation 7 complement the duty in the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 reg.3 to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of employees.” The frequency of the health assessment should therefore be guided by an assessment of the specific risks to each individual worker. HSE would review health assessments on a case-by-case basis as required.</p><p> </p><p>HSE <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/hsg256.htm" target="_blank">guidance</a> on shift working supports employers by outlining their legal duties. Where workers are concerned about risks to their health and safety, they can raise this with HSE via its website.</p><p> </p><p>Employers should seek specialist advice from a suitably qualified health care professional, when devising and assessing the results of health assessments. If a worker suffers from health problems that are caused or made worse by night work, the employer should, where possible, transfer the employee to day work.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 12/06/2023 15:44:46 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1641138

registered interest
date	02/06/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Surveillance: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what is the total budget allocated by her Department for the provision of a fixed-wing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance service by PAL Aerospace Ltd between April 2023 to October 2024.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	187055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2023 answer text <p>Specific expenditure on ISR contracts is considered commercially and operationally sensitive information and is not published.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 07/06/2023 15:23:46 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones