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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of officer cadets entering Sandhurst since 2015 attended a (a) state and (b) private school.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when a General of the Israel Defense Forces last visited his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the children of EU nationals serving in the armed forces in the UK are exempt from VAT on school fees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the children of US military families based in the UK are exempt from paying VAT on independent school fees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the military homes his Department bought back in December 2024 are in Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he last met a General of the Israel Defense Forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many death-in-service payments are paid to the families of deceased armed forces personnel each year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 20237 on Ministry of Defence: Employers’ Contributions, when his Department plans to publish the details of the funding set aside to cover the increased cost of N
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of medically unfit personnel are non-deployable for reasons of dental health in the (a) RAF, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Army.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December to Question 20237 on Ministry of Defence: Employers’ Contributions, whether the additional money provided to cover the cost of increased employer National Insurance Contribut
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many service personnel will be impacted by the decision to charge inheritance tax on death-in-service benefits for members of the Armed Forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 January 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether banks and insurance companies are discriminating against defence firms; and what steps they intend to take in response.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 January 2025
Australia No. 1 (2025)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) budget for and (b) amount spent on Defence medical services was in each year since 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many medical rank reservists there were in the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF in each year since 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 22 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of mental health provision for (a) serving members of the armed forces and (b) veterans (i) during the transition to civilian life and (ii) generally.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many nurses were in post in the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF in each year since 2010; and what the requirement was in each service in each of those years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether their Department offers its staff shared parental leave from their first working day.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department offers paternity leave to its staff from their first working day.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department offers protection to staff from unfair dismissal from their first working day.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to support minority groups serving in the armed forces in Surrey Heath constituency.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 21 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many engineers there were in post in the (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2025
Romania No. 1 (2025)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department issues guidance to the armed forces on the use of barracks to host MP constituency surgeries for serving personnel.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the Strategic Defence Review to complete its work and to publish its findings and recommendations.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department provided evidence to the Strategic Defence Review.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 9 December 2024 to Question 16652 on Military Bases, if his Department will now provide a response.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20117 on Defence Equipment Expenditure, when his Department plans to send that letter.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 January 2025
We are calling for the government to fund more support for armed forces veterans when they leave the military, particularly in relation to their recovery from accident and injury and the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme. We think it is clear that veterans feel let down on a wide range of areas including housing, healthcare, employment, mental health, accident and injury.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 January 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2024 to Question 22961 on Defence: Expenditure, whether the future fiscal event will take place before June 2025.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the potential cost to the defence industry of lost output arising from protests at (a) Glasgow Govan shipyard, (b) Glasgow Scotsoun and (c) Samlesbury aerospace factory in each of t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on (a) media and (b) voice training for Ministers between 4 July 2022 and 4 July 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) number of and (b) requirement for medical service personnel was on 1 April 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of GDP is the UK's defence spending excluding Trident.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, (a) how many visits to Israel and (b) for what purpose the (i) Chief of the Defence Staff, (ii) Chief of the Air Staff and (iii) Commander of Strategic Command have made since 1 January 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether (a) his Department and (b) each of its arms length bodies offers employees who are foster carers (i) flexible working, (ii) paid time off for (A) training and (B) settling a new child into their home and
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 January 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government how many Staff Officer 2 Military posts are vacant at (1) Army Headquarters and (2) the Defence Equipment and Support organisation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 January 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the established liability for Staff Officer 2 Military posts across the Ministry of Defence; and how many officers from all three services with a substantive rank of major or equivalent are available to fill them.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) internal policy reviews, (b) independent reviews, (c) external reviews, (d) taskforces, (e) public consultations, (f) investigations and (g) other reviews their Department launched between 5 July 202
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on recruitment consultants in each year since 2016; and how many personnel have been recruited to the (a) RAF, (b) Army, (c) Navy and (d) Marines in each year since 2016.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if his Department, will take steps to ensure the workforce that produced the Eurofighter Typhoon is retained for future defence projects.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 14 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what purposes (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have used AI in the last 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has reached agreement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the financial year when defence spending will reach 2.5% of GDP.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the Defence Medical Services cadre is operationally fit to deploy.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 January 2025
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to mark the 25th anniversary of the lifting of the LGBT+ ban in the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the contractual end date is for the principle members of the Strategic Defence Review team.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the delay to the publication of his Department's annual statistics on armed forces equipment will impact the scheduling of other departmental (a) reports and (b) reviews.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the annual armed forces equipment and formations statistics was not published on 31 October 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for publishing his Department's annual statistics on armed forces equipment and formations.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is for publishing his Department's annual statistics on armed forces equipment.