Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2018 to Question 135699, how much additional funding his Department has allocated to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for running costs of the Chemical Weapons Defence Centre during the current spending period.
Answered by Guto Bebb
We are investing an additional £48 million to create a new Chemical Weapons Defence Centre at Dstl Porton Down which is scheduled to open in autumn 2021.
Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2018 to Question 135699, how much additional funding his Department has allocated to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for running costs of the Chemical Weapons Defence Centre during the current spending period.
Answered by Guto Bebb
We are investing an additional £48 million to create a new Chemical Weapons Defence Centre at Dstl Porton Down which is scheduled to open in autumn 2021.
Asked by: Paula Sherriff (Labour - Dewsbury)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who the diversity champion is on his departmental board.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The Permanent Secretary, Stephen Lovegrove, is the Ministry of Defence's Diversity and Inclusion champion, and acts as an advocate for diversity and inclusion issues on the Defence Board.