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101 records in UK in 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made the effectiveness and reliability of small arms equipment issued as standard across the armed forces; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 December 2015
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 4.62 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, published on 23 November 2015, what areas his Department plans to sell to reduce the size of the built estate by 30 per cent; and by
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 4.62 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, published on 23 November 2015, what projection he has made of the savings to the public purse from the sale of 30 per cent of the bui
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 4.62 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, published on 23 November 2015, what estimate he has made of the revenue that will be received from the sale of 30 per cent of the bui
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what representations the UK has made to other NATO member states on committing two per cent of their gross domestic product to defence.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 4.98 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review, published on 23 November 2015; how many of the 10,000 military personnel available to assist civil authorities are (a) based in Scotl
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there is sufficient lift capacity to airlift the two new strike brigades to theatres of operation.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were (1) the targets for recruitment, and (2) the actual number of recruits, to each of the Armed Forces for each year from 2010 to 2015; and what action they are taking to increase the number of recruits to the Armed
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what expenditure has been allocated to the Ministry of Defence Police in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ministry of Defence Police Officers he estimates will be employed by his Department in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19 and (e) 2019-20.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many staff worked for the UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation on 1 April 2015; and what the budget of that organisation is for 2015-16.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the MoD’s book, transfer, target or purchase price for the defence lamp holder and cap assembly component, NATO stock number 9ACR6210 99 5622; what was their approximate stock holding of that component in depot as o
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what conditionality is attached to disbursements from the Joint Security Fund; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned schedule of disbursements from the Joint Security Fund is for (a) his Department and (b) the security and intelligence agencies in each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 4 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to retain or to return to the Consolidated Fund receipts from the sale of land and property assets over the Spending Review period.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 December 2015
To ask the Prime Minister, if the Government will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure any future decisions to deploy the armed forces requires a full debate and vote within the House.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the ratio of students to instructors in Force Development and Adventure Training is; whether there is a different ratio of students to instructors for each of those activities; whether that ratio has changed
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the ratio of students to instructors varies across his Department's centres which provide force development and adventure training; whether risk assessments have been carried out on the student to instruc
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 17694, how many training courses have been completed at (a) MOD Grantown-on-Spey, (b) MOD Llanrwst, (c) MOD Fairbourne and (d) MOD Crickhowell in each year f
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 17530, what information his Department holds on which foreign armed forces British military personnel were embedded within the last five years; and if he wil
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions a special adviser in his Department accompanied a Minister on an overseas trip since May 2015.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to version 4.3 of JSP 441 Defence Records Management Policy and Procedures, for what period training centres are required to maintain records in relation to (a) trainee attendance and (b) courses h
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2015 to Question 17682, what the cost per trainee is of the Eagle training scheme at (a) Force Development Training Centre (FDTC) Bavaria, (b) FDTC Grantown-on-Spey, (c) FDTC
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 2 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answers of 2 December 2015 to Questions 17676, 17682, 17679, 17694 and 17681, what statistical data was used in the assessment process to close (a) MOD Fairbourne and (b) MOD Llanrwst; and if he w
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 16 November. My Right Honourable Friend, Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Howe attended the Forei...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
My right Honourable Friend, Minister for Europe (David Lidington), has made the following written Ministerial statement:My Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs attended the Foreign Affairs Council on 16 Novem...
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2015 to Question 17694, if he will place in the Library documents his Department holds on the Force Development and Adventure Training review; and if he will make a statement
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how his Department assesses the cost per trainee for force development and adventure training; whether costs for force development are assessed separately to those for adventure training; what the cost is for (a)
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on interpreters working on behalf of the UK armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan who wish to seek resettlement in the UK.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 17695, how many studies have been completed under JSP507 in each year since 2005; what the title was of each such study; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 December 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civil servants in his Department are in the redeployment pool.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has estimated the cost to the public purse of making payments to support military veterans who retired with fewer than 22 years' service before 5 April 1975.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the standard of living of those military veterans who retired with fewer than 22 years' service before 5 April 1975 of the provisions of the Social Securit
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to assist financially those military veterans who retired with fewer than 22 years' service before 5 April 1975.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of the reduction in the number of civilians referred to in paragraph 4.61 of the National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, Cm 9161, will be made in Scotland.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they intend to assist members of the armed forces who are diagnosed with mesothelioma in the future; and what assessment they have made of whether those individuals should receive financial support at least equivalent t
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 30 November 2015
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what representations they have made to the government of Israel concerning the use of hollow-point bullets by the Israel Defence Forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what cost savings his Department plans to make from phasing out the commitment bonus for members of the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how he plans to reinvest the savings achieved by phasing out the commitment bonus for members of the armed forces in the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of how many serving members of each branch of the armed forces are likely to be affected by the phasing out of the commitment bonus for armed forces personnel.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what timetable he has set for phasing out the commitment bonus for members of the armed forces.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what training his Department has provided to staff on the family test; what other steps he has taken to raise awareness of the family test among staff of his Department; and if he will make a statement.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 33 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, how many posts he plans to lose in each section of his Department.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 33 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, what his timetable is for reducing his Department's civil service headcount.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 33 of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015, how much his Department plans to save by reducing the civil service headcount in his Department to 41,000.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Joint Security Fund; and how much his Department may draw from that fund in each year from 2015 to 2020.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 9 September 2015 to Question 9672, when he expects the investigation by the Ministry of Defence Police Professional Standards Department into disciplinary matters relating to police offi
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much money his Department gave to support armed forces charities in each region in 2014-15.
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 26 November 2015
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of his Department's receipts from land sales in each year until 2020.