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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) military and (b) civilian personnel have been employed as security guards (i) directly and (ii) by external third parties contracted by his Department in each of the last six years.

Mark Lancaster

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) employs the MOD Guard Service (MGS) and the Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) to guard some of their establishments.

Over the last six years the following numbers have been employed:

FY	MPGS	MGS
2010-11	2,310	3,593
2011-12	2,510	3,439
2012-13	2,630	3,110
2013-14	2,770	2,734
2014-15	2,810	2,064
2015-16	2,940	2,035

The MOD also uses commercial civilian guarding at some sites where this is more cost effective. However, the numbers of security guards employed by third parties is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK civilian personnel are currently deployed on military operations; and in what capacity such personnel are deployed.

Penny Mordaunt

There are 84 UK civilian personnel currently deployed on behalf of the Ministry of Defence on military operations. 26 of those are deployed as UK civil servants undertaking a range of essential roles including policy, legal and scientific advice, financial and commercial services, and delivery of the Government’s ex gratia redundancy and intimidation schemes for locally employed civilians. 58 of those 84 are deployed as contractors, undertaking a range of support roles.

In both cases, the roles are undertaken principally in Kabul and locations across the Gulf.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) military and (b) civilian personnel were employed within Defence Intelligence in each of the last six years.

Penny Mordaunt

The strength of Defence Intelligence for Service and civilian personnel at year end for the years 2010-11 to 2015-16 was:

Year	Service Personnel	Civilians
2015-16 (at January 2016)	2,137	1,360
2014-15	2,332	1,365
2013-14	2,412	1,323
2012-13	2,458	1,306
2011-12	2,323	1,132
2010-11	2,330	1,326

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent personnel were employed by the (a) Royal Military Police, (b) Royal Naval Police and (c) Royal Air Force Police in each of the last six years.

Penny Mordaunt

The requested information, as at 1 April of each year, is provided in the following table:

Strength of Trained UK Regular personnel in the Royal Military Police (RMP), Royal Naval Police (RNP) and Royal Air Force Police (RAFP)

	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
RMP	1,700	1,710	1,720	1,740	1,720	1,620
RNP	340	320	320	300	290	300
RAFP	1,480	1,450	1,360	1,200	1,110	1,140

Notes:

1. UK Regular Forces comprises Full-time personnel but does not include Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service personnel and Reservists.

2. RMP figures do not include approximately 2,900 Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS) personnel and a small number of "staff" (Colonel and above) who have a late arm/corps of Provost. Recent MPGS personnel numbers are available in Table 1 of the Service Personnel Statistics report:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/499082/Monthly_Service_Personnel_Statistics_January_2016.xlsx

3. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid systematic bias. Totals and sub-totals have been rounded separately and so may not equal the sums of their rounded parts.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian personnel were deployed in each operational theatre overseas in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Penny Mordaunt

In the last 12 months (13 February 2015 to 12 February 2016), 71 UK civil servants have deployed on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide direct support to military operations. A breakdown of locations is provided below.

Country	Number of UK civil servants deployed on behalf of the MOD
Afghanistan	42
Sierra Leone	1
United Arab Emirates	14
Bahrain	2
Qatar	8
Italy	2
United States of America	2

Since June 2015, an average of 88 UK contractors has been deployed on military operations by the MOD at any one time. A total 12-month figure could not be provided as details of changes to individual post-holders are not held centrally, and information is not held for the period before June 2015.

Country	Average number of UK civilian contractors deployed by the MOD
Afghanistan	36
Gulf	44
Iraq	6
Nigeria	2

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK civilian personnel not formally deployed to an operational theatre visited such a theatre in the most recent year for which figures are available; and in what capacity those personnel carried out those visits.

Penny Mordaunt

The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many simulators were used for military flight training in each of the last six years.

Penny Mordaunt

The information requested is provided below; it comprises both fixed wing and rotary simulators.

2015 – 41

2014 – 41

2013 – 40

2012 – 39

2011 – 39

2010 – 31