Former Labour MP for Hove
Hon. Members will wish to be aware that with effect from 1 April 2005, the Queen Victoria School (QVS), Dunblane, Perthshire, will cease to hold agency status. QVS is presently the smallest of the Ministry of Defence agencies with a budget of less than £5 million per annum, compared to an average of £473 million. Following a recent review it has been decided that the additional overheads...
On 25 January 2005, Official Report, column 241W in response to the question raised by the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) about accidents at the army training ground at Otterburn, I stated that six people had been injured as a result of accidents at the Otterburn military training area. It has since come to light that this figure was incorrect. This was brought to my attention...
The following key targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (DMETA) for the financial year 2005–06: Key Target 1—Meeting Operational Manpower Requirements To meet 100 per cent. of the commanders-in-chief requirements for secondary care personnel under DMETA command for operational deployments. Key Target 2—Individual Military...
In my previous statement, 16 September 2004, Official Report, column 162WS, I gave an undertaking to keep the House informed of the progress with regard to the creation of the Ministry of Defence Medal Office. I am pleased to report that on 22 March I officially opened the MOD Medal Office which is now established at a single location within the Armed Forces Personnel Administration Agency...
My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced last week in his Budget statement that there would be a change to the tax regime for the new compensation scheme which will commence on 6 April 2005. I am pleased to confirm that because of the special demands of service in our armed forces, the Government have now decided that lump sums awarded to those who are able to remain in...
I congratulate the hon. Member for Croydon, South (Richard Ottaway) on securing this debate and welcome the contributions of the hon. Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) and my hon. Friend the Member for Monmouth (Mr. Edwards), who I know takes a close interest in such matters. I fully endorse the praise that has been given to our forces in this debate. I hope that the Chamber will...
The mobilisation of reservists in January 2003 to support United Kingdom operations in Iraq was the largest call-out of the reserve forces since the 1950s, as has been said. The initial phase saw 5,200 reservists mobilised in sufficient time to participate in the war-fighting phase of the operation. They served in formed reserve units and sub-units, and as individual reservists in both...
I was about to deal with the figures, but I spotted the hon. Member for Croydon, South first.
Both civilian and Service personnel data by agency are collated annually at 1 April and presented in Table 2.6 of UK Defence Statistics, a copy of which is held in the Library of the House. Further information on personnel figures is available on the DASA website at http://www.dasa.mod.uk The number of Service personnel employed by agency and location is not collated centrally, although the...
Total staff costs are published in the agencies' annual report and accounts for the relevant financial years, copies of which are available in the House and from the following agency websites at http://www.qvs.org.uk/and http://www.ppa.mod.uk/. Agency personnel costs on a regional basis are not recorded centrally or by the agency. However, the Queen Victoria school is based solely in...
holding answer 2 March 2005 Data on advertising contracts is not recorded by the categories requested and can be identified only from the UK Standard Industrial Classification Code 2003 allocated to the contract. The SIC code is used to record activities and products and is published and approved for use by the Office of National Statistics. Therefore, contracts and their values identified...
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
The Ministry of Defence does not hold complete records dating back to 1997. Since 1999, our records indicate that no redress of complaint decisions taken by the Army board have been overturned in a UK court of law.
These questions relate to information I gave to the hon. Member in a written answer on 18 November 2004, Official Report, column 1806W. It has subsequently been found that there was an error in the statistics given in that answer relating to the number of redress cases considered by the Army board. Officials have urgently been examining those records. I wrote to the hon. Member on 6 April...
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