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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 November 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the commitments set out in the Autumn Budget, by how much the Continuity of Education Allowance will increase.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 November 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the appointment of the independent Armed Forces Commissioner for the UK will take place this year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 November 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the progress made over the last 18 months in improving the maintenance of the accommodation of military personnel.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 November 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that armed forces accommodation is sufficiently prepared for winter.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 November 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made regarding the ownership and upgrading of married accommodation for serving personnel.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2024
The UK is exploring options to re-establish a nuclear fuel cycle for reactor fuel for defence purposes. The Government is committed to modernising defence nuclear fuel production under the Defence Nuclear Enterprise. We are commencing engagement with indu...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2024
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence (John Healey) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The UK is exploring options to re-establish a nuclear fuel cycle for reactor fuel for defence purposes. The Government is committed...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timeline is for bringing the Armed Forces Covenant fully into law.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2024 to Question 9611 on Ministry of Defence: Buildings, how many individual desks were occupied in his Department’s HQ office in the most recent four weeks for which figures
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 November 2024
A Bill to establish, and confer functions on, the Armed Forces Commissioner; to abolish the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2024 to Question 11939 on Ministry of Defence: Employers' Contributions, whether the £216 million figure given is the (a) direct cost of his Department’s Ministry of Defence:
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to reduce instances of post traumatic stress disorder within the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve retention rates in his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help increase productivity within his Department through the use of (a) artificial intelligence and (b) effective use of data.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will make an estimate of planned defence spending in the next two years as a share of GDP using NATO's definition of defence expenditure.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he takes to ensure joint defence projects are compatible with the UK’s (a) arms export control system and (b) international obligations.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to increase value for money in procurement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 November 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, HC 295, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of the increase to employer's national insurance contributions on the Ministry of Def
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the potential cost of funding pay rises for armed forces personnel in each of the next three financial years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the additional funding for Continuity of Education Allowance to compensate for introducing VAT on private school fees will come from the Ministry of Defence budget.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to continue providing funding for NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic into 2025/26.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his timetable for reaching 2.5% GDP of expenditure on engineer retention in the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Research and Development programmes were listed under the Defence Sourcing Portal in the last twelve months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his timetable for reaching 2.5% GDP of expenditure on helicopter pilot training in the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact that closing blast furnaces in (a) Port Talbot and (b) Scunthorpe on the UK's (i) virgin steel supply and (ii) defence industry.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the ratio of STEM-related MOD Apprenticeship schemes to Civilian MOD Apprenticeship schemes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October to Question 10454 on Strategic Defence Review, whether all submissions by Parliamentarians will be read in the first instance by human beings, before the use of artificial int
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to (a) continue and (b) amend the Defence STEM Undergraduate scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies recommendation of the Haythornthwaite Review that the Armed Forces trial new total reward approaches for (a) engineers and (b) othe
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has met with his New Zealand counterpart.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 31 October 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government, following the announcement in the Autumn Budget of £2.9 billion additional funding for the Ministry of Defence, how this amount is broken down, and what restrictions will be placed on how it can be spent.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to footnote 1 to table 4.8 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, published on 30 October 2024, what the (a) financial quantum, (b) relevant programme, (c) Other Government Departments involved in and
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the increase in (a) direct and (b) indirect costs to his Department of the 1.2% rise in employer national insurance contributions announced in the budget.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of when Defence spending will reach 2.5% of GDP, and whether he has issued subsequent guidance to (a) Lord Robertson and (b) the external reviewers of Strategic Defence Review 2004-05.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what (a) policy reviews, (b) new and revised strategies, (c) green papers and (d) white papers relating to the policy areas covered in the (i) The Integrated Review 2021, published on 16 March 2021, and (ii) Int
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2024 to Question 7008 on Ministry of Defence: Official Cars, how many of those vehicles are electric.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 7009 on Ministry of Defence: Official Cars, if he will publish a list of senior officials with access to a government car.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to assist recipients of the Continuity of Education Allowance with payment of VAT on school fees.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing assistance with VAT on school fees to children of service families not currently in receipt of the Continuity of Education Allowance.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many trained military personnel were ready to deploy in a combat role in each branch of the armed forces in each of the last five years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assumed increase in the UK's defence budget his Department is using for the purposes of estimating its 10-year Equipment Plan, calculated (a) in cash terms and (b) as a percentage of gross domestic product.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will outline the UK's defence budget for (a) this and (b) the next two financial years expressed as a (i) total cash amount and (ii) percentage of gross domestic product, excluding expenditure related to Uk
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recruitment targets there were in each branch of the armed forces in each of the last five years; and how many people were recruited to each branch in the same period.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to Question 8178 on British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty, tabled by the Hon. Member for South Suffolk on 9 October 2024 for answer on 14 October 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what definition his Department uses of Sovereign Capability.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 October 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government how much was spent by the Ministry of Defence on consultancies in the last year for which figures are available, and in each of the preceding four years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether each of the armed forces has diversity targets.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many times (a) his Department and (b) each agency sponsored by his Department has experienced a cyber attack in each year since 2010; what the cost to the public purse was of each cyber attack; and who the pe
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 October 2024
Earlier today I, together with my German counterpart Boris Pistorius, signed an Agreement on Defence co-operation between the United Kingdom and Germany. The Agreement will strengthen bilateral defence co-operation and will enhance our mutual security. It...