Asked by: Chris Elmore (Labour - Ogmore)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the level of unemployment of former armed service personnel.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 17 October 2016 to Question 46795 to the hon. Member for East Renfrewshire (Kirsten Oswald).
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-10-07/46795/
Asked by: Chris Elmore (Labour - Ogmore)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether recruitment to posts in his Department have included Welsh language skills as an essential or desirable criteria.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Armed Forces personnel posted to Wales are not required to have Welsh language skills.
Civilian posts in the Ministry of Defence which are based in Wales have been advertised with requirements for Welsh language skills, both as essential and as desirable. Recruitment is generally conducted by managers at a local level and they are responsible for setting job criteria. However, the Department would expect a vacancy holder with a post in Wales to specify, as a minimum, Welsh language skills as desirable. If the post was public facing we would expect it to be essential.
Asked by: Chris Elmore (Labour - Ogmore)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value of current contracts is between his Department and suppliers based in Wales.
Answered by Harriett Baldwin
The value of direct contracts alone that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) currently holds with suppliers in Wales is £6.957 billion. This value is based on direct contracts currently held where the prime location of work is identified as Wales, and also includes the share of other contracts where some work is identified as taking place in Wales.
The value excludes any work that we have been able to identify as having been sub-contracted to other locations, even where the main supplier is situated in Wales. It also excludes contracts with MOD Trading Funds; miscellaneous payments; pan-Government enabling contracts and other enabling contracts that cover the whole of the MOD estate.