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819060

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armoured Fighting Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was paid from the public purse to civilian staff from (a) Network Rail and (b) the German Federal Railway Die Bahn to oversee the loading of armoured vehicles to trains and certifying them as safe to move in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	121737
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>This information is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 17/01/2018 15:22:37 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

819057

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armoured Fighting Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department's Investment Approvals Committee plans to confirm its acquisition strategy for the planned Mechanised Infantry Vehicle programme.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	121734
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>An announcement on the acquisition strategy for the Mechanised Infantry Vehicle programme is expected shortly.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 17/01/2018 15:23:11 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

819058

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Armoured Fighting Vehicles
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the first delivery of vehicles from the Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) programme will take place in 2021; and whether the date for the first MIV-equipped battlegroup to reach an initial operational capability is set for the start of 2023.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	121735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>The precise delivery schedule of the Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) is yet to be confirmed. The project assessment phase will determine the timing and delivery sequence for the Army's new Strike Brigades.</p> answering member constituency Aberconwy answering member printed Guto Bebb question first answered 17/01/2018 15:23:40 answering member 3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

78182

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	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	Social Media
	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 Twitter accounts are run by his Department; how much his Department spends annually on (a) Twitter accounts and (b) all social media; and how many people in his Department are employed to work on social media.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has 17 corporate twitter accounts, including a central @foreignoffice account. The other accounts are for support to British nationals overseas, work on forced marriage, communications in Arabic and Urdu, and a range of other priorities such as recruitment, ending sexual violence in conflict and our policy on Europe. Six Ministers and the Permanent Under Secretary are also on twitter in an official capacity, as well as most of our 270 posts overseas, many of our Ambassadors and some other senior officials. The FCO does not spend anything on its Twitter accounts.</p><p>The FCO runs a range of other social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Weibo, Flickr, Google+, YouTube but does not pay for any of these.</p><p>The FCO occasionally uses paid-for advertising on its social media channels to promote key content. Any such advertising is subject to Cabinet Office marketing and advertising spending controls and is cleared in line with Cabinet Office procedures. It is not possible to breakdown exact spending, although details of overall exemptions to marketing and advertising controls are available on GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/exceptions-data</p><p>One FCO official in London maintains the main Foreign Office corporate social media accounts. Staff from across the FCO contribute to other social media channels. For example, a number of staff in our Consular team contribute to the @FCOTravel twitter account as part of our customer service to British Nationals, and staff at posts contribute to overseas channels. It is not possible to give precise numbers across our network as this information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/07/2014 15:20:30 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

77135

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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 has spent on (a) media training and (b) social media training for (i) him and (ii) other Ministers in his Department; and what specific training was provided in each such case.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk (Mr Bellingham), on 16 July 2012, Official Report, column 569W.<br> <br>The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Mr Simmonds), attended media training in July 2013. The cost was £1,150.<br> <br>Since then we have not provided any training on media or social media for any Ministers in the Department.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 11:57:26 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

77138

	registered interest
	date	10/07/2014
	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	Buildings
	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 has spent on refurbishing (a) gym and leisure facilities, (b) cafeterias and (c) interior decoration within buildings (i) used and (ii) owned by his Department in (A) 2013 and (B) 2014 to date.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	205239
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) new gym facility within the King Charles Street office was part of a combined project which also delivered a new Diplomatic Service Language Centre. It has replaced the staff gym in the Old Admiralty Building office which has closed as part of the FCO's office relocation. Figures for the gym alone could not be extracted from these totals without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>Expenditure on refurbishing cafeterias during 2013 was nil. During 2014 to date, the total was £189,682.</p><p>Expenditure on the refurbishment of interior decoration is not specifically identified as such within the Department’s records and could not be extracted without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>Overseas, the FCO runs an estate in over 270 locations worldwide. It would not be possible to provide the information requested on overseas properties without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/07/2014 11:53:33 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

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

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

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