Written questions

735 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Hawk Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 610, what steps he is taking to secure future orders of the Hawk aircraft and, which countries he is talking to about such orders.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Air Force: Re-employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister for the Armed Forces of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 605, how many former pilots who had left the RAF have applied to re-join since the announcement t

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Navy

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Minister for the Armed Forces’ oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 596, how many personnel he plans to increase the Royal Navy by and over what period.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Islamic State: Military Intervention

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has to re-examine the criteria for medallic recognition for Operation Shader.

16 Jan 2018 · Cabinet Office

Armed Conflict

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the National Security Risk Assessment 2015, whether International Military Conflict is still considered a Tier One risk.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 592, what plans he has for future defence policy refreshes.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 599, whether rental allowances for armed forces personnel under the Future A

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

CarillionAmey

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the effect of Carillion’s entering liquidation on the operation of CarillionAmey; and what contingencies his Department has in place to take account of those effects.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the value of the (a) land and (b) housing stock at the sites identified for disposal under the Better Defence Estate strategy.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Military Bases

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the housing stock at those of his Department's sites which were identified for disposal under the Better Defence Estate strategy.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 617, what the personnel will be for the(a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force in each of the next two years.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

National Security Capability Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column 616, whether he plans to ask the Chief of the Defence Staff to appear before the Defence Committee to give evidence on the National Se

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

F-35 Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column. 621, whether the Government still plans to purchase 138 F-35s.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column.614 whether his Department plans to maintain the Armed Forces at the size they were at the 2017 General Election; and if he will make

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his oral contribution of 15 January 2018, Official Report, column.613, at what number the Government has made a clear commitment to maintaining personnel in the Armed Forces.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Fire and Rescue Service: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to review the adequacy of pensions arrangements for his Department's fire-fighters.

16 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

RAF Lossiemouth: Fire and Rescue Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions RAF fire personnel based at Kinloss have been used to support the civilian manned fire station at RAF Lossiemouth in each of the last five years.

12 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2018 to Question 121442, on Armed Forces: Recruitment, when those system defects will be fixed; and what assessment he has made of the effect of those defects on recruitment.

10 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Defence Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department will publish the Defence Equipment Plan 2017-2027.

10 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Chancellor of the Exchequer and (b) the Secretary of State for International Trade on the Mechanised Infantry Vehicle programme.

8 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) planned and (b) actual savings to his Department were under the Army Recruiting Partnership Project in each financial year between 2012-13 and 2016-17.

8 Jan 2018 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the performance of new online recruitment system for the Armed Forces.

19 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Military Exercises

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, (a) when and (b) for what reasons the decision was taken to cancel (i) Exercise Black Horse, (ii) Exercise Curry Trail, (iii) Exercise Orange Marauder, (iv) Exercise Southwest Sword and (v) Commando Strike.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Air Force: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many men (a) applied for, (b) were accepted on and (c) completed the Initial Officer Training Course at RAF College Cranwell for each course since the start of 2015.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Army: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many men (a) applied for, (b) were accepted on and (c) completed the UK Officer Commissioning Course at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for each course since the start of 2015.

12 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Navy: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many men (a) applied for, (b) were accepted on and (c) completed the Initial Naval Training (Officer) course at Britannia Royal Naval College for each course since the start of 2015.

6 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Strike Experimentation Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress has been made on establishing the Strike Experimentation Group.

5 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Military Exercises

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, (a) when and (b) for what reasons, the decision was taken to reduce the number of joint warrior exercises from two to one in 2018.

5 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2017 to Question 438, when his Department plans to publish its new strategic equality objectives.

5 Dec 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Army

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the planned number of personnel is for each Strike brigade.

Source: official written-questions record.