Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: members engage in all aspects of dentistry: general practice, community dental services, the armed
Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) Lady, not a single word on whether she would actually back our plans to invest in our armed forces. - Speech Link
2: John Baron (Con - Basildon and Billericay) Friend do what he can to ensure that some of that increased money is spent on additional recruitment—including - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) Friend is for the armed forces and for funding the armed forces. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) Indeed, recruitment and retention of staff in the county courts is itself a real challenge, which means - Speech Link
2: None The other problem is with the recruitment of salaried full-time district judges, who are the vast bulk - Speech Link
3: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) It also forces them into joint tenancies with groups of people who they might discover later in the year - Speech Link
4: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) clear that everyone deserves a safe and decent home, none more so than the heroes who serve in our armed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) In short, we increasingly need our armed forces, and we increasingly are asking more of them.So yesterday - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Ukraine is a part of what our armed forces and this country are having to deal with. - Speech Link
3: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) last year, which has helped with recruitment, and people seeing our armed forces involved in so much - Speech Link
4: Robin Millar (Con - Aberconwy) What I hear is an investment in the armed forces that we need, not necessarily the armed forces we have - Speech Link
5: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Friend is right about the armed forces that we need, not the armed forces that we have. - Speech Link
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF personnel worked on military recruitment in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Information in response to the right hon. Member's Question is as follows:
Royal Navy
As of January 2024, there were 453 personnel employed to deliver recruitment with an additional surge support of some 85 personnel to enable transition to the New Recruiting Process. Historic information is not available.
Army
Financial Year | Personnel |
2010/12 | 526 |
2012/13 | 1050 |
2013/14 | 742 |
2014/15 | 742 |
2015/16 | 742 |
2016/17 | 736 |
2017/18 | 736 |
2018/19 | 424 |
2019/20 | 427 |
2020/21 | 427 |
2021/22 | 427 |
2022/23 | 427 |
2023/24 | 427 |
For information about additional Capita staff, not included in these figures, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 15 January 2024 to Question 7766 to the hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne, which is available at: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-01-05/7766.
Royal Air Force
Calendar Year | Personnel |
2010 | 439 |
2011 | 371 |
2012 | 332 |
2013 | 339 |
2014 | 356 |
2015 | 387 |
2016 | 396 |
2017 | 403 |
2018 | 436 |
2019 | 435 |
2020 | 429 |
2021 | 432 |
2022 | 415 |
2023 | 334 |
Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) payments additional to their wages and (b) deployment allowances have been made to the crew of submarines providing the continual at sea deterrent in the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The table below provides information requested and shows the total volume of all payments made covering additional Recruitment and Retention payments made above basic salary, Local Overseas Allowance and Longer Separation Allowance payable on deployment. This count has not been broken out as the data could compromise operational security.
Financial Year | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | Grand Total |
Count of payments additional to wages | 16,285 | 17,509 | 14,021 | 17,932 | 19,503 | 82,250 |
It would be prejudicial to the effectiveness, capability and security of His Majesty's Armed Forces to provide any further detail.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Armed Forces Recruiting Offices allow for walk-ins by potential new recruits.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Armed Forces Career Offices do allow for walk-ins by potential new recruits during office hours. Alternatively, people interested in a career in the Armed Forces can access online recruitment portals at any time.
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: Health and Work), Department for Work and Pensions Leo DOCHERTY MP Minister of State (Minister for Armed
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: Sudan We strongly condemn the ongoing fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support
Mentions:
1: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The professionalism that our Armed Forces show is the envy of the world. - Speech Link
2: Lord Houghton of Richmond (XB - Life peer) forces of more civilised societies. - Speech Link
3: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Suppose His Majesty’s Armed Forces are engaged in a high-intensity conflict and an officer is in control - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We are looking at recruitment, retention and reward allowances, developing new ways to identify and incubate - Speech Link