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100805

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on security and hostile environment training in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	211815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office provides a wide range of security courses. Most are conducted in-house. A three-day Security Awareness in Fragile Environments (SAFE) residential training course, with an additional one-day SAFE+ Close Protection module, is provided by an external contractor.</p><p>Costs for all security and hostile environment training were as follows:</p><p>2010/11 : £414,028.32<br>2011/12 : £500,164.52<br>2012/13 : £484,826.55<br>2013/14 : £535,437.82</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 29/10/2014 15:52:55 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

101392

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2014
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Lord Mayor of London
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many times the Lord Mayor of London has travelled overseas on an official visit organised and funded by his Department; for what purpose each visit was undertaken; what class of travel was used in each case; and at what cost on each occasion.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	212236
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/11/2014 15:16:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176442

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Communication
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's communications budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	222587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office budgets are devolved to London departments and overseas posts so there is no central Departmental budget for communications and to establish this figure would incur disproportionate cost. Budget outturns for the period requested for the central Communications Directorate, and for the preceding year for comparison, are as follows:</p><p>09/10: 4,510,480<br>10/11: 2,686,945<br>11/12: 2,189,789<br>12/13: 2,131,324<br>13/14: 2,037,680<br>14/15: 1,698,461</p><p>Between 2009-10, the last year of the previous administration, and 2014-15, costs have been reduced by 62%.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/02/2015 15:26:02 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176443

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his Department's advertising budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	222573
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not have a dedicated advertising budget. Budgets are delegated to Posts across the world and departments in London and it would not be possible to aggregate any spending without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 05/02/2015 17:58:59 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

390302

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Defence: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department will receive from the Joint Security Fund for each year to 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	7386
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced in Budget 2015 the creation of a joint security fund of £1.5 billion by the end of the parliament.</p><p>The Strategic Defence and Security Review will decide how the fund should be best used. The Review will be published towards the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2015 15:12:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

432787

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	BBC World Service: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding his Department has provided to the BBC World Service in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	17810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text In each year from 2010 the department provided the following funding to the BBC World Service: 2009/2010 – £268,043,000 2010/2011 – £268,523,000 2011/2012 – £255,200,000 2012/2013 – £244,200,000 2013/2014 – £238,480,000 answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 01/12/2015 15:03:18 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

448301

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Russia: Navy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Romanian government about a NATO Black Sea fleet.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24456
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK holds regular discussions with our NATO Allies, including Romania, about security issues across the Euro-Atlantic space, including in the Black Sea region. In July 2015 the Deputy Permanent Representatives Committee in Brussels held a session on the security situation in the Black Sea in which the UK, Romania and a large number of NATO Allies participated.</p><p>In November 2015 HMS Duncan, the Royal Navy’s newest destroyer, visited Romania and provided a visible British and NATO presence in the Black Sea. HMS Duncan also participated in a Passing Exercise with the Romanian navy with the aim of increasing NATO interoperability.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 04/02/2016 15:48:15 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

453251

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Transcaucasus: Armed Forces
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the situation on the line of contact between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	27538
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>The UK is concerned about regular ceasefire violations and the increasing use of heavy weaponry both on the line of contact around Nagorno-Karabakh and on the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. We encourage both Armenia and Azerbaijan to exercise restraint and accelerate efforts to reach a negotiated settlement of the conflict.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 24/02/2016 16:09:03 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

458084

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Transcaucasus: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which projects in (a) Georgia, (b) Armenia and (c) Azerbaijan have received funds from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	29953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>There are 34 projects worth £3,188,896 in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, funded under the Caucasus Programme of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) in Financial Year 2015-16. These projects are listed in the attached table, broken down by country.</p><p>CSSF Programme work in the region has focused on maintaining stability by supporting conditions for on-going reconciliation mechanisms. Projects are focused on peace-building initiatives, demining, strengthening civil society, security sector reform, and strategic communications.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/03/2016 14:57:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington attachment 1 file name CSSF Projects for PQ.docx title Projects by country.
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

458090

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	Kosovo: Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which projects in Kosovo have received funds from the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	29999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2016 answer text <p>There are 39 projects worth £4,236,948 in Kosovo, funded under the Western Balkans Programme of the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) in Financial Year 2015-16. These projects are listed in the attached table. CSSF programme activity in Kosovo has focused on promoting political, economic and security sector reform - including in the areas of rule of law, reconciliation, addressing corruption and increasing cross-border cooperation with Serbia – in order to address the causes of instability and to help support Kosovo’s Euro-Atlantic accession path.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/03/2016 16:19:37 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington attachment 1 file name CSSF Projects for PQ.docx title CSSF Projects
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones