Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his Ministerial colleagues on the £9.2 million Scottish Government funding for (a) skills and (b) training in BAE.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
I welcome Scottish Government‘s support for this vital investment into skills and training in BAES and the contribution it will make to shipbuilding on the Clyde.
The Ministry of Defence announced £182 million of skills funding as part of the Defence Industrial Strategy, which will be used across Scotland and the rest of the UK to support the growth of skills in the defence sector.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces serving in England who are considered not medically deployable are awaiting treatment; and how many have been waiting for longer than six months.
Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
As of 8 November 2025, there were 2,375 UK Armed Forces personnel graded as Medically Not Deployable (MND), awaiting an NHS or private healthcare appointment following a referral from a Defence Medical Centre in England. Of these, 930 have been waiting longer than six months.
Information on the number of UK Armed Forces personnel graded as MND awaiting an NHS or private healthcare appointment following a referral from a Defence Medical Centre in Wales or Northern Ireland is not held centrally.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces serving in Northern Ireland who are considered not medically deployable are awaiting treatment; and how many have been waiting for longer than six months.
Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
As of 8 November 2025, there were 2,375 UK Armed Forces personnel graded as Medically Not Deployable (MND), awaiting an NHS or private healthcare appointment following a referral from a Defence Medical Centre in England. Of these, 930 have been waiting longer than six months.
Information on the number of UK Armed Forces personnel graded as MND awaiting an NHS or private healthcare appointment following a referral from a Defence Medical Centre in Wales or Northern Ireland is not held centrally.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces serving in Wales who are considered not medically deployable are awaiting treatment; and how many have been waiting for longer than six months.
Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
As of 8 November 2025, there were 2,375 UK Armed Forces personnel graded as Medically Not Deployable (MND), awaiting an NHS or private healthcare appointment following a referral from a Defence Medical Centre in England. Of these, 930 have been waiting longer than six months.
Information on the number of UK Armed Forces personnel graded as MND awaiting an NHS or private healthcare appointment following a referral from a Defence Medical Centre in Wales or Northern Ireland is not held centrally.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the (a) manufacturing and (b) assembly for the 20 Typhoons to be exported to Turkiye will be carried out in Turkiye.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Manufacturing for the Typhoons for Türkiye will be done by the Eurofighter partner nations (Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK), with 37% of the workshare and final assembly done in the UK.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Oral Statement of 29 October 2025 on UK-Türkiye Typhoon Export Deal, Official Report, column 338, where the 800 jobs created in Scotland will be located.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Typhoon programme supports 800 jobs in Scotland, the majority of these are based at Leonardo UK in Edinburgh.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what offset agreements have been signed with Turkiye; and what equipment is included in those agreements in order to conclude the export of 20 Typhoon aircraft from the UK to Turkiye.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
There was no offset package as part of the Türkiye Typhoon agreement.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the time on wing was for the engines damaged by Palestine Action at Brize Norton.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The time on the wing for the engines that were damaged are - engine (a) 35 months 24 days, since 27 June 2022; engine (b) 15 months 8 days since 12 Mar 2024.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether engines damaged by Palestine Action at Brize Norton were removed from the aircraft following the incident.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The affected engines have been removed following the incident.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus and Perthshire Glens)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if her Department will issue guidance on whether a transgender person with a birth certificate which states their re-assigned sex is female is entitled to use female toilets.
Answered by Olivia Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
The independent Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is developing its updated statutory Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations to support service providers in this area.
The EHRC has submitted the draft updated Codes to the Minister for Women and Equalities. The Government will consider the draft updated Code and, if the decision is taken to approve it, the minister will lay it before Parliament. Parliament will then have a 40 day period to consider the Code.