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Written Question
Courts Martial: Prison Sentences
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, how many of those members of the armed forces tried before a military court received a military custodial sentence in each calendar year since 2016.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, what proportion of those members of the armed forces tried before a military court were tried for (a) military only offences and (b) military and civilian offences in each calendar year since 2016.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, what proportion of those members of the armed forces tried before a military court were (a) officers and (b) enlisted personnel.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial: Legal Opinion
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, how many members of the armed forces tried before a military court in each calendar year since 2016 were recorded as receiving independent legal advice separate from that provided by the armed forces.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, if he will publish a breakdown of the number of armed forces personnel tried before a military court from the (a) Army, (b) Navy and (c) Royal Air Force in each year since 2016.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, how many armed forces personnel tried before a military court were (a) regular personnel and (b) reservist personnel at the time of their trial.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Armed Forces: Discharges
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, how many members of the armed forces were discharged from service as a result of their trial in each calendar year since 2016.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial
Tuesday 22nd June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 15 June 2021 to Question 11704, how many of those members of the armed forces tried before a military court were (a) found not guilty and (b) found guilty of the charges they faced in each calendar year since 2016.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The detailed information requested to answer the hon. Member's questions will take time to collate, and I will write in due course.


Written Question
Courts Martial
Tuesday 15th June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of the armed forces have been tried by military courts in each year since 2016.

Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)

The military courts fulfil an important function in administering justice when Service personnel are alleged to have committed any of the service offences in the Armed Forces Act 2006, wherever in the world those offences are said to have occurred. They are a major contributor to the maintenance of discipline which underpins the operational effectiveness of the Armed Forces. Anyone convicted of an offence will be punished appropriately and that may include imprisonment, and dismissal from service.

The requested information on the number of Service personnel who have been tried by a military court is provided in the following table:

Year

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Number of individuals

436

400

414

500

372

Notes:

Figures for each year encompass all cases that concluded in that year i.e. if a case was opened in 2019 but concluded in 2020, the individual is recorded within the 2020 data.

Figure may include individuals who have been Court Martialled on more than one occasion. If an individual had more than one case but was either acquitted or sentenced on the same date, they are captured only once within the year of the result. However, if an individual had multiple cases that came to court in different years or after a previous case was closed, they will be recorded twice.

Figures also include ex-Service personnel who were serving at the time of the alleged or proven offence.

Court Martial results from the military court centres over the period January 2010 to December 2019 can be found at the following website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/court-martial-results-from-the-military-court-centres.


Written Question
Defence Equipment: Sales
Monday 7th June 2021

Asked by: Imran Ahmad Khan (Independent - Wakefield)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a list of surplus military equipment which has been sold via the Defence Equipment Sales Authority in each of the last five years.

Answered by Jeremy Quin

The Defence Equipment Sales Authority (DESA) handles a wide variety of equipment, from large platforms, such as warships, tanks and aircraft, to smaller assets, such as clothing and textiles, military spares, scrap metal and office/IT equipment. DESA processes, on average, in excess of 7,000 declarations each year. A declaration may cover a single item of military equipment or a list of thousands of smaller items. As such, a substantive response covering all individual items sold over the last five years cannot easily be provided.

The number of declarations and net income from the sale of surplus equipment over the last five financial years (FY) is as follows:

FY 2016-17

FY 2017-18

FY 2018-19

FY 2019-20

FY 2020-21

Total

Declarations

7,996

7,547

7,009

7,324

6,244

36,120

Net income £million ex-VAT

70.739

41.309

143.304

111.349

40.716

407.417