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United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Ministry of Defence Police budget is in the (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-26 financial year; and whether he undertook a risk assessment before determining the budget for the next financial year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of removing the prohibition on coeliac disease sufferers serving in the Armed Forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing the recommendations of the report by the Defence Safety Authority entitled Service Inquiry into the alleged exposure of UK Defence Personnel to asbesto
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has plans to identify alternatives to the bearskins worn by the Household Division's Regiments of the Foot Guards.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of 6 September 2024 to Questions 2306 and 2308 on Ministers: Official Cars, which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have (i) been allocated a dedicated vehicle and (ii) acc
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is on the allocation of Government Car Service cars to senior officials; what the policy was on 24 May 2024; and which senior officials have been granted access to the service since 4
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations he has received on the potential impact of applying VAT to independent school fees on the families of military service personnel.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Sherlock on 7 August (HL344), how many staff in the Ministry of Defence are permitted to undertake diversity-related network time during core working hours; what is the percentage
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the total cost of school fees paid in the last year by the Government for UK private education for the children of military personnel serving overseas.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what (a) meetings and (b) communications via electronic messaging (i) he and (ii) his special advisers have had with representatives of Arden Strategies.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Test and Evaluation Transformation Programme being undertaken within the Ministry of Defence has completed its first phase; if not, when is the projected date of completion; and what is proposed for the next pha
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made in the renovation and refurbishment of service accommodation and service family accommodation; and what remains outstanding in relation to those works.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask the Solicitor General, if she has provided advice on whether F-35 components supplied by the UK to Israel via a third party are used by Israel in Gaza in compliance with international humanitarian law.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions police have been required to be present at the picketing of defence factories in the last twelve months; and what the cost was to the public purse.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on cooperation with the EU on defence procurement; and if he will list PESCO agreements with which the UK (i) is currently cooperating and (ii) has indicated in meetings an interest in reviewin
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Strategic Defence Review on the Hydra 400 jet-propelled drone development programme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which procurement programmes are affected by the Joint Declaration on Enhanced Defence Cooperation between Germany and the United Kingdom, signed on 24 July 2024.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his proposed timetable is for UK defence spending reaching 2.5% of GDP.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, by what date he expects UK defence spending to reach 2.5 per cent of GDP.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Strategic Defence Review will conclude in its entirety before the next Spending Review commences.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many positions in his Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such job
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an estimate of how many (a) serving armed forces personnel and (b) veterans have benefitted from the Right to Buy scheme in each of the last five financial years
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will prohibit trail hunting across the Defence estate.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department purchased combat arms earplugs from 3M.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many combat arms earplugs his Department purchased from 3M; and what the cost was.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will ensure that the upcoming Strategic Defence Review (a) begins with a statement of Britain's (i) interests, (ii) role in the world and (iii) military ambitions over the next 10 years and (b) matches avai
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which (a) agencies and (b) departments are authorised to manage defence research and development projects.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support UK defence manufacturing through government procurement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has a target for increasing the use of UK steel in defence.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the assumed spending envelope for the Strategic Defence Review.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of providing (a) eyewear and (b) eye tests for Ukrainian troops being trained in the UK on the health and wellbeing of those troops; and what estimate he has ma
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the scale of innovation in the UK’s defence and security sector, in the light of the success of non-legacy defence contractors in recent US procurement rounds.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will estimate the cost to the defence industry of lost output resulting from disruption linked to political protest in the last 12 months.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 September 2024
A Bill to support women in UK-sponsored and supported conflict prevention, peace processes, mediation and diplomatic delegations; to ensure systematic gender consideration and responsiveness in UK foreign and defence policy; and for connected purposes.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British Army service personnel (a) live and (b) work in Northern Ireland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of maximising the geo-strategic potential of Northern Ireland in the defence of the UK (a) in general and (b) in the context of its position relative to weste
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
Ukraine No. 2 (2024)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to review the inclusion of military compensation as income in the means test for Pension Credit.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to strengthen her Department's compliance with the Armed Forces Covenant.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) armed forces, and (2) diplomatic families, currently receive support via the Continuity of Education Allowance; and what were the numbers supported each year since 2019.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to reduce the training budget for (a) the Army, (b) the Royal Air Force and (c) the Royal Navy in the current financial year.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much he plans to spend on defence research and development in (a) this financial year and (b) the next four financial years.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make an estimate of the number of supply chain jobs supported by his Department’s contract with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual increase for furniture charges was in Single Living Accommodation in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has written to defence contractors to seek efficiency savings.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the percentage increase for Single Living Accommodation charges was for grades (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3 and (d) 4 in each year since 2010.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made changes to the threshold of financial approvals for defence expenditure requiring ministerial sign off.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 August 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports of the outsourcing by a commercial subcontractor of work to coders based in Belarus; what remedial steps he has taken; whether he has ma
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 August 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to resume calculations of Cash Equivalent Transfer Valuations frozen as a result of the McCloud judgement for members of the Armed Forces Pension Scheme.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 August 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of removing the VAT exemption on independent school fees on deployed armed forces personnel and their families.