Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Combermere Barracks as of May 2024.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information required to answer the hon. Member’s questions is held by Ministry of Defence statisticians. Army officials are working with them to produce a consolidated response, which will take some time. I will write to him by mid-June, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Gibraltar Barracks as of May 2024.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information required to answer the hon. Member’s questions is held by Ministry of Defence statisticians. Army officials are working with them to produce a consolidated response, which will take some time. I will write to him by mid-June, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Hammersley Barracks as of May 2024.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information required to answer the hon. Member’s questions is held by Ministry of Defence statisticians. Army officials are working with them to produce a consolidated response, which will take some time. I will write to him by mid-June, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Denison Barracks as of May 2024.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information required to answer the hon. Member’s questions is held by Ministry of Defence statisticians. Army officials are working with them to produce a consolidated response, which will take some time. I will write to him by mid-June, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Ben Wallace (Conservative - Wyre and Preston North)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 10 May 2024 to Question 24424 on Armed Forces: Defence Equipment, for what reason his Department has linked the annual budget cycle in 2024 to the announcement for future funding in the 2025-26 financial year, in the context of the annual budget cycle being for in-year spending adjustments.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Department runs an Annual Budget Cycle (ABC) every year. However, this is not solely for in year spending adjustments, it is a financial planning exercise to review the Department's ten-year forecast.
The most recent ABC conducted in 2023 reviewed the ten-year forecast from 2023-24 to 2032-33 and the current ABC process underway is reviewing the ten-year forecast from 2024-25 to 2033-34. This will reflect the recent announcement of our planned trajectory to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of mobile phones used by (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department were manufactured by (i) Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor and (v) Xiaomi.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Department’s Core network doesn’t use any Huawei or ZTE Routers.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not use any laptops or desktops manufactured by Lenovo or Xiaomi.
The Department does not supply any mobile phones supplied by Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor or (v) Xiaomi. None of the device manufacturers listed are used on the MODs enterprise systems.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not permit the download or use of WPS Office on its devices.
None of the sim cards used on the Ministry of Defence’s enterprise systems are provided by CMLink.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) laptops and (b) desktops in his Department were manufactured by (i) Lenovo and (ii) Xiaomi.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Department’s Core network doesn’t use any Huawei or ZTE Routers.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not use any laptops or desktops manufactured by Lenovo or Xiaomi.
The Department does not supply any mobile phones supplied by Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor or (v) Xiaomi. None of the device manufacturers listed are used on the MODs enterprise systems.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not permit the download or use of WPS Office on its devices.
None of the sim cards used on the Ministry of Defence’s enterprise systems are provided by CMLink.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his Department's policy to allow the use of WPS Office on official electronic devices.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Department’s Core network doesn’t use any Huawei or ZTE Routers.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not use any laptops or desktops manufactured by Lenovo or Xiaomi.
The Department does not supply any mobile phones supplied by Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor or (v) Xiaomi. None of the device manufacturers listed are used on the MODs enterprise systems.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not permit the download or use of WPS Office on its devices.
None of the sim cards used on the Ministry of Defence’s enterprise systems are provided by CMLink.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of routers in his Department were manufactured by (a) Huawei and (b) ZTE.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Department’s Core network doesn’t use any Huawei or ZTE Routers.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not use any laptops or desktops manufactured by Lenovo or Xiaomi.
The Department does not supply any mobile phones supplied by Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor or (v) Xiaomi. None of the device manufacturers listed are used on the MODs enterprise systems.
The Department's main corporate IT system (MODNET) does not permit the download or use of WPS Office on its devices.
None of the sim cards used on the Ministry of Defence’s enterprise systems are provided by CMLink.
Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Duchess of Kent Barracks as of May 2024.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information required to answer the hon. Member’s questions is held by Ministry of Defence statisticians. Army officials are working with them to produce a consolidated response, which will take some time. I will write to him by mid-June, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.