Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many flood support officers his Department employed in each of the last five years.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency (EA) does not have “flood support officers” as a role. The EA has numerous flood incident response roles that staff hold alongside their day jobs. Staff are regularly trained and exercised in these roles. Some of these roles are only activated during an incident and some are on standby 24/7 365 days a year.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the number of offenders who were subsequently convicted of murder in each year between 2010 and 2015, broken down by the type of index sentence originally given.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
I refer the honourable Member to the answer I gave on Monday 27 November to Question 2868: Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the number of pigeon infestations in the prison estate.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
HM Prison and Probation Service takes all reasonable steps to manage waste appropriately at prison sites to reduce the likelihood of infestation. Routine planned pest control regimes are in place, facilitated by the Facilities Management providers as part of their core service. In addition to this, reactive pest control visits are undertaken as required.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications to join the Royal Marines as an (i) Officer and (ii) non-commissioned Officer were made in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's Questions. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was for (a) abandoned and (b) postponed Royal Air Force training exercises in each year since 2018.
Answered by James Heappey
This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people left the (a) Army, (b) RAF, (c) Royal Navy and (d) Royal Marines in each calendar year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The requested information is provided in the attached table.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications to join the (i) Army as an officer, (ii) RAF as a commissioned officer and (iii) Royal Navy as an officer were made in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's Questions. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful applications to join the (i) Army as a NCO, (ii) RAF as an NCO and (iii) Royal Navy as a rated officer were made in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's Questions. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any (a) SA80 and (b) Glock 17 have been decommissioned in each year since 2015.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
SA80 and Glock 17s are decommissioned each year due to damage and wear outside of safe limits.
The ongoing SA80 A2 to A3 upgrade programme is also resulting in some SA80 A2s being decommissioned.
Asked by: Julie Elliott (Labour - Sunderland Central)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much was spent on pest control in the prison estate in each year since 2018.
Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice has significantly increased investment in custodial Facilities Management over the period, including in pest control activity. The amount spent on pest control in the prison estate for each financial year since 2018 is in the table below:
Financial Year | Total Pest Control Costs (£000) |
2018/19 | 568 |
2019/20 | 872 |
2020/21 | 1,227 |
2021/22 | 1,107 |
2022/23 | 1,172 |