Defence

written question – answered on 12 June 2014.

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  • Afghanistan

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of when the Afghanistan Air Force will be ready to function independently of US and UK support.

  • Afghanistan

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of the Afghanistan National Army has deserted in each month since January 2010.

  • Africa

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 25 March 2014, Official Report, column 180W, on Africa, whether any service personnel are embedded with host forces or...

  • Africa

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any UK service personnel are embedded or otherwise stationed in (a) Ethiopia and (b) Chad.

  • Armed Conflict: Children

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what support his Department is giving to the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict for the campaign to eradicate the recruitment of...

  • Armed Forces Covenant: Northern Ireland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which charitable projects based in Northern Ireland have benefited from the armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.

  • Armed Forces: British Nationality

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Foreign and Commonwealth personnel from each country of origin who were made redundant from the armed forces in each year since 2010 were...

  • Armed Forces: Discharges

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many requests for discharge were made by soldiers aged (a) 19 and (b) 20 years who had served at least three years in the regular Army in the last...

  • Armed Forces: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what training programmes or qualifications are available to recruits who enlist as minors which are not available to those who enlist aged 18 years or over.

  • Armed Forces: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many recruits under the age of 18 years at (a) enlistment and (b) the point of submitting their application to join the armed forces who stated in...

  • Armed Forces: Young People

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many recruits enlisting in the armed forces under the age of 18 years had previously (a) been convicted of a criminal offence, (b) received a caution...

  • Armoured Fighting Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the MRV-P programme concept phase to be completed; whether funding for a demonstration has been approved; and what funds have been...

  • Army

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers who enlisted in the Army aged (a) under 18 and (b) 18 years and above dropped out before completing phase two training in the last 10...

  • AWE Aldermaston

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has spent on Atomic Weapons Establishment facilities at Aldermaston in each of the last five years.

  • Boskalis

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many contracts have been awarded by his Department to Boskalis over the last five years; and on how many occasions during the contract period such...

  • Defence: Procurement

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 18 December 2013, Official Report, column 636W, on defence: procurement, what the final costs are of establishing a Golo...

  • Djibouti

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 4 February 2014, Official Report, column 169W, on Djibouti, from which squadron armed forces have been deployed at Camp...

  • Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what modifications to the original design of the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers were necessary to accommodate repeated vertical landings by the Joint...

  • Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence at which RAF bases the Joint Strike Fighter can regularly land vertically.

  • Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Joint Strike Fighter 35-B will be equipped with a collision warning system.

  • Military Aircraft

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to mitigate the risks to defence aviation safety systems and culture referred to in the Defence Air Safety Annual Report July 2012 to...

  • Military Aircraft

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to put out to tender the contract to provide military air traffic management at British and overseas bases.

  • Risk Assessment

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what records his Department keeps of the monthly 2-star assessments of its risk registers.

  • Somalia

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will take steps to recognise the service of members of the Royal Navy in patrolling operations to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia.

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 473W, on unmanned air vehicles, when the Joint User Group for Reapers will...

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if his Department will carry out an independent qualitative assessment of the psychological and workplace stresses on the operators of remotely piloted...

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether Joint Services Publication 398 on UK Rules of Engagement has been amended to reflect use of remotely piloted aircraft systems.

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 10 February 2014, Official Report, column 474, on unmanned air vehicles: guided weapons, if his Department will publish...

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department maintains (a) mission reports, (b) guided missile firing reports, (c) weapon system videos and (d) any other munitions release...

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 15 January 2014, Official Report, column 578W, on unmanned air vehicles, whether his Department maintains munitions...

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether his Department has procured any contracts for life cycle maintenance of the Reaper fleet; and for what periods.

  • Usa

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the advice provided by Jemima Stratford QC to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on drones, if his Department will take steps to...

  • Usa

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions his Department has had with its US counterpart on identifying how the US will support the new Joint User Group for Reaper. [R]

  • Yemen

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 30 January 2014, Official Report, column 691W, on Yemen, whether his Department has undertaken any impact assessment of...

  • Yemen

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the answer of 4 February 2014, Official Report, column 169W, on Djibouti, whether the UK personnel embedded with US forces under US...

  • Yemen

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many UK service personnel are stationed in Yemen; and what the (a) rank, (b) squadron and (c) function is of each officer stationed in that country.