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Information between 9th August 2025 - 19th August 2025

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Select Committee Documents
Thursday 14th August 2025
Correspondence - Letter dated 5th August to Chair from the Secretary of State providing requested information in relation to the Israel/Gaza conflict

Defence Committee


Petitions

Make the Armed Forces pension tax free

Petition Open - 25,490 Signatures

Sign this petition 18 Feb 2026
closes in 5 months, 2 weeks

Make the Armed Forces pension at age 60 tax free.

Stop arms sales and any military support to Ukraine and Israel.

Petition Open - 43 Signatures

Sign this petition 11 Feb 2026
closes in 5 months, 1 week

We demand the government cease all arms sales to these countries along with any military support. We believe we should end our part in the pain and destruction inflicted by war, and that we should not support weapons but instead, invest the money in our own citizens and services.



Department Publications - News and Communications
Sunday 10th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Pets for heroes: new measures to transform military housing into family homes
Document: Pets for heroes: new measures to transform military housing into family homes (webpage)
Tuesday 12th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Understanding Injury: DASA seeks innovations in Conflict Wound research
Document: Understanding Injury: DASA seeks innovations in Conflict Wound research (webpage)
Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Chief of the Defence Staff speech to CSIS
Document: Chief of the Defence Staff speech to CSIS (webpage)
Monday 18th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: New multi-million pound Army support deal for North-East firm to boost national security and growth
Document: New multi-million pound Army support deal for North-East firm to boost national security and growth (webpage)
Tuesday 19th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: How we protected the UK and space in July 2025
Document: How we protected the UK and space in July 2025 (webpage)


Department Publications - Transparency
Tuesday 12th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Service Inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding alleged unacceptable behaviour by UK Service Personnel in Kenya in contravention of MoD and Army policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Document: (PDF)
Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Service Inquiry into the death of a soldier while driving a MAN Support Vehicle 6 tonne truck near Sennybridge Training Area on 20 September 2023
Document: Service Inquiry into the death of a soldier while driving a MAN Support Vehicle 6 tonne truck near Sennybridge Training Area on 20 September 2023 (webpage)
Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Service Inquiry into the death of a soldier while driving a MAN Support Vehicle 6 tonne truck near Sennybridge Training Area on 20 September 2023
Document: (PDF)


Department Publications - Guidance
Wednesday 13th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Global Support Organisation overseas guides: Mons
Document: Global Support Organisation overseas guides: Mons (webpage)
Wednesday 13th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: Global Support Organisation overseas guides: Mons
Document: (PDF)


Deposited Papers
Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: I. Letter dated 08/08/2025 from Luke Pollard MP to Derek Twigg MP in response to a Written Parliamentary Question regarding the numbers by category for the most frequent reasons for new applicants to the Army being refused on medical grounds each year, since 2020. 1p. II. Table detailing the above information.
Document: 20250509_IWW_PQ_Data.pdf (PDF)
Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Defence
Source Page: I. Letter dated 08/08/2025 from Luke Pollard MP to Derek Twigg MP in response to a Written Parliamentary Question regarding the numbers by category for the most frequent reasons for new applicants to the Army being refused on medical grounds each year, since 2020. 1p. II. Table detailing the above information.
Document: IWW_PQN24_25_2025_10162_Derek_Twigg_MP.pdf (PDF)



Ministry of Defence mentioned

Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 13th August 2025
Correspondence - Letter to the Secretaries of State for Business and Trade, for Defence and for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs relating to suspended arms exports to Israel, 13 August 2025

Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls

Found: We note that the provision of such information to Parliament is not unprecedented as in 2006 the MoD



Parliamentary Research
Defending UK airspace - POST-PN-0751
Aug. 08 2025

Found: VLO Very low observable, often referred to as ‘stealth’ MOD Ministry of Defence EW Electronic warfare



Department Publications - News and Communications
Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Secretary of State ‘opinion’ on Imperative Reasons of Overriding Public Interest (IROPI) to Portsmouth City Council
Document: (PDF)

Found: Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (HIWWT), Ministry of Defence

Thursday 14th August 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Source Page: Secretary of State ‘opinion’ on Imperative Reasons of Overriding Public Interest (IROPI) to Portsmouth City Council
Document: (PDF)

Found: A key part of the City Deal was the transfer of land at the Site from the Ministry of Defence to PCC



Department Publications - Guidance
Wednesday 13th August 2025
Home Office
Source Page: Immigration Rules archive: 6 August 2025 to 12 August 2025
Document: (PDF)

Found: An application must first be made, by the applicant, to the Ministry of Defence, who will decide if



Department Publications - Statistics
Monday 11th August 2025
Home Office
Source Page: Report 6: offensive weapons homicide review, Birmingham
Document: (PDF)

Found: ICB. 8 Nil IMR return from BCC- Community Safety Partnership, Housing Management Central, Ministry of Defence



Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications
Aug. 18 2025
Council for Science and Technology
Source Page: Council for Science and Technology advocates for UK sovereign AI chip design industry
Document: Council for Science and Technology advocates for UK sovereign AI chip design industry (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: Recommendation 3: DSIT and MOD should set clear strategic objectives on semiconductors to send a strong

Aug. 14 2025
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
Source Page: CWD 2025: the next step in ridding the world of chemical weapons
Document: CWD 2025: the next step in ridding the world of chemical weapons (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: Munition venting The Ministry of Defence (MOD) conference, supported by the Defence Science and Technology

Aug. 12 2025
Defence and Security Accelerator
Source Page: Understanding Injury: DASA seeks innovations in Conflict Wound research
Document: Understanding Injury: DASA seeks innovations in Conflict Wound research (webpage)
News and Communications

Found: Exploration is being run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the UK Ministry of Defence



Non-Departmental Publications - Statistics
Aug. 18 2025
Council for Science and Technology
Source Page: Building a sovereign AI chip design industry in the UK
Document: (PDF)
Statistics

Found: Recommendation 3: DSIT and MOD should set clear strategic objectives on semiconductors to send a strong



Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation
Aug. 12 2025
Defence and Security Accelerator
Source Page: Market Exploration: Modelling and Monitoring Conflict Wounds
Document: Market Exploration: Modelling and Monitoring Conflict Wounds (webpage)
Guidance and Regulation

Found: Conflict Wounds On behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the UK Ministry of Defence



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Aug. 11 2025
National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
Source Page: NISTA Annual Report 2024-2025
Document: (webpage)
Transparency

Found: Military Capability MODNET Evolve provides the essential base IT infrastructure needed by the MOD at




Ministry of Defence mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Tuesday 19th August 2025
Justice Directorate
Safer Communities Directorate
Source Page: Scottish Crime Recording Standard: Crime Recording and Counting Rules
Document: Scottish Crime Recording Standard crime recording and counting rules (PDF)

Found: comprises members of Police Scotland, Scottish Police Authority, British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence

Wednesday 13th August 2025

Source Page: Copy of cycle path design that runs between Baillieston and Shawhead: FOI release
Document: FOI 202500475330 - Information released - Annex G - L (PDF)

Found: (v) Photomicrograph A typical photomicrograph of the mod ified binder and binder using ultra -violet

Monday 11th August 2025
Marine Directorate
Source Page: Mowi, Salmon Scotland and Loch Hourn correspondence: EIR release
Document: EIR 202500467787 - Information released - Annex (PDF)

Found: Please find attached responses received from MCA, NLB, MOD, NatureScot and RYA.

Monday 11th August 2025
Marine Directorate
Source Page: Proposal to designate the Scapa Flow Historic Marine Protected Area – Final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment – 18 July 2025
Document: Historic MPAs Scapa Flow BRIA (PDF)

Found: Kronprinz Wilhelm, Markgraf, Karlsruhe) who advised that, in 1981, with the permission of the Ministry of Defence

Monday 11th August 2025
Marine Directorate
Source Page: Proposal to designate two Historic Marine Protected Areas Consultation report
Document: Proposal to designate two Historic Marine Protected Areas: Consultation report (PDF)

Found: List of organisations who responded to the consultation: • Law Society of Scotland • Ministry of Defence