Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2024 to Question 25754 on Armed Forces: Recruitment, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of the senior responsible officer’s time that was spent working on the Recruiting Partnering Project in the last 12 months.
Answered by Andrew Murrison
Approximately 10% of the Senior Responsible Officer’s (SRO) programmed meeting time was spent on the Recruiting Partnering Project in the last 12 months, alongside their other duties. This is the only programme for which they are the SRO. The SRO is supported by a team who focus on the Recruiting Partnering Project full time.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2024 to Question 25754 on Armed Forces: Recruitment, what other programmes the Senior Responsible Officer has responsibility for.
Answered by Andrew Murrison
Approximately 10% of the Senior Responsible Officer’s (SRO) programmed meeting time was spent on the Recruiting Partnering Project in the last 12 months, alongside their other duties. This is the only programme for which they are the SRO. The SRO is supported by a team who focus on the Recruiting Partnering Project full time.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, where the new Multi-Role Support Ships will be built.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
As announced by the Secretary of State, it is intended that the Multi Role Support Ships will be built in the UK.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Bulwark will next deploy.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave on 17 April 2024 to Question 21289 to the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Mr Pollard).
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of Ukrainian military personnel have been trained via Operation INTERFLEX.
Answered by Leo Docherty
Under Operation INTERFLEX, the UK along with support from its allies has trained over 40,000 Ukrainian recruits to date. This is part of the broader training programme administered by the Ukrainian Government.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out of service date is for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s Bay-class ships.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
The Secretary of State confirmed in his speech to the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference on 14 May 2024 that up to six Multi Role Support Ships will replace our current amphibious fleet, including the Bay Class Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliaries) and RFA Argus. The Multi Role Support Ship will come into service from the early 2030s.
To avoid compromising operational security, the Ministry of Defence does not routinely disclose individual out of service dates or specific in-service dates for naval vessels to avoid revealing elements of the fleet's long-term schedule.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out of service date is for RFA Argus.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
The Secretary of State confirmed in his speech to the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power Conference on 14 May 2024 that up to six Multi Role Support Ships will replace our current amphibious fleet, including the Bay Class Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliaries) and RFA Argus. The Multi Role Support Ship will come into service from the early 2030s.
To avoid compromising operational security, the Ministry of Defence does not routinely disclose individual out of service dates or specific in-service dates for naval vessels to avoid revealing elements of the fleet's long-term schedule.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices to quit have been issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to (a) service and (b) non service families in Service Family Accommodation properties in the UK in each month since January 2023.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Data on the number of Notices to Quit (NTQs) issued to Service personnel and their families in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in the UK is available from April 2022; the implementation date of the current service contract:
Year | No of NTQs issued to Service Personnel |
April 2022 – end December 2022 | Nil |
January 2023 – December 2023 | 159 |
January 2024 – March 2024 | 5 |
A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:
Month | Number of NTQs Issued to Service Personnel |
Jan 23 | 2 |
Feb 23 | 0 |
Mar 23 | 0 |
Apr 23 | 0 |
May 23 | 0 |
Jun 23 | 0 |
Jul 23 | 0 |
Aug 23 | 72 |
Sep 23 | 23 |
Oct 23 | 33 |
Nov 23 | 27 |
Dec 23 | 2 |
Jan 24 | 3 |
Feb 24 | 2 |
Mar 24 | 0 |
The Civilian Sublet Tenancy Scheme began in 2016 and no NTQs were issued until 2019. An annual breakdown of the number of NTQs that have been issued to Civilian Sublet tenants living in SFA properties in the UK is provided in the table below:
Time Period | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (to April 16th) |
No of NTQs issued to Civilian Sublet Tenants | 14 | 3 | 459 | 95 | 92 | 98 |
A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:
Month | Number of NTQ’s Issued |
Jan 23 | 11 |
Feb 23 | 1 |
Mar 23 | 5 |
Apr 23 | 9 |
May 23 | 8 |
Jun 23 | 0 |
Jul 23 | 1 |
Aug 23 | 1 |
Sep 23 | 14 |
Oct 23 | 16 |
Nov 23 | 17 |
Dec 23 | 9 |
Jan 24 | 17 |
Feb 24 | 3 |
Mar 24 | 63 |
Apr 24 (up to 16th of the month) | 15 |
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices to quit have been issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to (a) service and (b) non service families in Service Family Accommodation properties in the UK in each year since 2010.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
Data on the number of Notices to Quit (NTQs) issued to Service personnel and their families in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) properties in the UK is available from April 2022; the implementation date of the current service contract:
Year | No of NTQs issued to Service Personnel |
April 2022 – end December 2022 | Nil |
January 2023 – December 2023 | 159 |
January 2024 – March 2024 | 5 |
A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:
Month | Number of NTQs Issued to Service Personnel |
Jan 23 | 2 |
Feb 23 | 0 |
Mar 23 | 0 |
Apr 23 | 0 |
May 23 | 0 |
Jun 23 | 0 |
Jul 23 | 0 |
Aug 23 | 72 |
Sep 23 | 23 |
Oct 23 | 33 |
Nov 23 | 27 |
Dec 23 | 2 |
Jan 24 | 3 |
Feb 24 | 2 |
Mar 24 | 0 |
The Civilian Sublet Tenancy Scheme began in 2016 and no NTQs were issued until 2019. An annual breakdown of the number of NTQs that have been issued to Civilian Sublet tenants living in SFA properties in the UK is provided in the table below:
Time Period | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 (to April 16th) |
No of NTQs issued to Civilian Sublet Tenants | 14 | 3 | 459 | 95 | 92 | 98 |
A monthly breakdown of issued NTQs since January 2023 is provided below:
Month | Number of NTQ’s Issued |
Jan 23 | 11 |
Feb 23 | 1 |
Mar 23 | 5 |
Apr 23 | 9 |
May 23 | 8 |
Jun 23 | 0 |
Jul 23 | 1 |
Aug 23 | 1 |
Sep 23 | 14 |
Oct 23 | 16 |
Nov 23 | 17 |
Dec 23 | 9 |
Jan 24 | 17 |
Feb 24 | 3 |
Mar 24 | 63 |
Apr 24 (up to 16th of the month) | 15 |
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on (a) upkeep and (b) maintenance of HMS Westminster since October 2022.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
As I advised on 15 January 2024 when I answered Question 8349 to the right hon. Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois), in the financial year 2023-24, £100 million has been allocated for Type 23 refits and of this sum about £50 million has been expended. Of this, £8 million was spent on upkeep and maintenance of HMS Westminster.