Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2024 to Question 18055 on Ajax Vehicles: Testing, how many claims for compensation on noise induced hearing loss were related to the AJAX project in each year since 2019.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The information for financial year (FY) 2018-19 – FY2022-23 has been provided in Question 18055 on 20 March 2024. In addition, I can now confirm figures for FY2023-24.
FY2023-24 – Two.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2024 to Question 16605 on Ministry of Defence: Senior Civil Servants, how many senior responsible owner positions are filled with temporary cover.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Senior Responsible Owner resourcing position is monitored at local levels with formal reporting at the end of each quarter. At 31 March 2024, all of our 50 Government Major Projects Portfolio programmes had a Senior Responsible Owner in place who was accountable for decisions and making progress against the delivery plan.
In three cases these positions were filled temporarily while recruitment action takes place.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many senior responsible owner roles are vacant in his Department as of 15 April 2024.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Senior Responsible Owner resourcing position is monitored at local levels with formal reporting at the end of each quarter. At 31 March 2024, all of our 50 Government Major Projects Portfolio programmes had a Senior Responsible Owner in place who was accountable for decisions and making progress against the delivery plan.
In three cases these positions were filled temporarily while recruitment action takes place.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the letter sent to the Rt hon. Member for Garston and Halewood on 27 February, reference 3427, if he will provide a breakdown of the type of fraud for each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Reports of fraud are recorded on the Defence Confidential Hotline’s Case Management System against pre-determined categories.
The table sets out the categories for the total detected fraud values in my letter of 27 February.
Fraud Category | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
Civilian Allowances | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||
Civilian Expenses | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
Civilian Pay | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Service Allowances | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
Service Expenses | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Service Pay | X | X | X | |||||||||||
Cyber and communication | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Departmental Income Related | X | X | X | |||||||||||
Exploiting Assets and Information | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
Joint Personnel Administration, Travel & Subsistence and Other Allowances | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
Pay Related | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Payment Processes | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||
Pension Fraud | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
Personnel Management Related | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
Procurement | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Recruiting | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||
Theft of Assets | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Other | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his letter, reference PQN/23-24/2024/04115, if he will provide a breakdown by position of the 149 individuals in his Department who earn more than £100,000 a year.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the right hon. Member's Question. I will write to her when the information is available, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on (a) fires, (b) infrastructure and (c) manoeuvre support in the Land Equipment directorate at Defence Equipment and Support in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The Fires, Infrastructure, and Manoeuvre Support (FIMS) delivery team total spend on equipment and support by financial year is as follows:
Financial Year | Contract Spend £million |
2019-20 | 24.82 |
2020-21 | 56.66 |
2021-22 | 64.11 |
2022-23 | 390.42 |
The FIMS delivery team total spend on operating costs by financial year is as follows:
Financial year | Total spend £million |
2019-20 | 8.10 |
2020-21 | 2.20 |
2021-22 | 8.26 |
2022-23 | 17.86 |
FIMS is a specific project team in DE&S and the figures above represent the total spend of that team. The figures do not represent the total spend on all fires, infrastructure and support across the Department which would not be held centrally and would not be answerable without a disproportionate cost. The substantial increase in costs in FY2022-23 is due to the Operational Infrastructure team being merged into the FIMS team in April 2022.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December to Question 5944 on Defence Equipment, when he plans to send the response letter to the Rt hon. Member for Garston and Halewood.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
I responded to the right hon. Member on 16 April 2024. A copy of my letter has been placed in the Library of the House.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of people employed to the Future Kinetic Effects and Weapons programme at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory was in each year since 2019.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Dstl works with industry, academia and Government to make sure the UK has the right defence science and technology capabilities, and to deliver work for our customers in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and across Government. Dstl provides summary information on its Science and Technology Programmes on its website to inform the public of the nature of the work it is undertaking.
Dstl’s structure, and the wide range of expertise within the organisation, allows expertise to be brought in, as required, to support the dedicated programme technical teams deliver its S&T Programmes.
Whilst information relating to Dstl’s workforce is published annually in its Annual Report and Accounts, detailed FTE staffing details in respect of named Programmes cannot be provided in the interests of National Security.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of people employed to the Future Workforce and Training programme at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory was in each year since 2019.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Dstl works with industry, academia and Government to make sure the UK has the right defence science and technology capabilities, and to deliver work for our customers in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and across Government. Dstl provides summary information on its Science and Technology Programmes on its website to inform the public of the nature of the work it is undertaking.
Dstl’s structure, and the wide range of expertise within the organisation, allows expertise to be brought in, as required, to support the dedicated programme technical teams deliver its S&T Programmes.
Whilst information relating to Dstl’s workforce is published annually in its Annual Report and Accounts, detailed FTE staffing details in respect of named Programmes cannot be provided in the interests of National Security.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average number of people employed to the Electromagnetic Activities programme at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory was in each year since 2019.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
Dstl works with industry, academia and Government to make sure the UK has the right defence science and technology capabilities, and to deliver work for our customers in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and across Government. Dstl provides summary information on its Science and Technology Programmes on its website to inform the public of the nature of the work it is undertaking.
Dstl’s structure, and the wide range of expertise within the organisation, allows expertise to be brought in, as required, to support the dedicated programme technical teams deliver its S&T Programmes.
Whilst information relating to Dstl’s workforce is published annually in its Annual Report and Accounts, detailed FTE staffing details in respect of named Programmes cannot be provided in the interests of National Security.