Tag: Nicholas Soames

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel of each (a) rank and (b) branch, specialisation and arm left the Royal Navy in the first (a) three months, (b) three to six months, (c) six to nine months and (d) nine to 12 months of their service in each year from 2005-06 to 2014-15.

Mark Lancaster

The information requested in respect of rank and branch is provided in the tables attached.

Notes:

Source: Defence Statistics (Navy).

A financial year includes all outflows from 1 April to 31 March.

Length of Service is recorded when someone completes that month.

Specialisations have been excluded from these tables due to the need to protect sensitive small figures.

All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy. All numbers are rounded to the nearest 5 with numbers that would be rounded to 0 represented by ‘~’.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of the Naval Service Operational Pinch Point Groups for (a) each quarter of each financial year from 2005-06 to 2014-15 and (b) the first two quarters of 2015-16.

Mark Lancaster

Prior to 2015, Naval Service Operational Pinch Point Groups were not recorded quarterly. However, Pinch Points as at 1 April of each year are published in the Ministry of Defence (MOD)Annual Report and Accounts which are available in The Library of the House. Please note, an MOD Annual Report for 2009-10 was consolidated into the MOD Departmental Resource Accounts 2009-10.

The number of Naval Service Operational Pinch Points in July 2015 and October 2015 are as shown in the following table.

1 Apr-1 Jul 2015	1 Oct 2015
Nuclear Watchkeepers Petty Officer-Warrant Officer1	Nuclear Watchkeepers Petty Officer-Warrant Officer1
Strategic Weapon Systems Engineers Leading Hand-Warrant Officer1	Strategic Weapon Systems Engineers Leading Hand-Warrant Officer1
Tactical Weapon Systems Engineers Petty Officer-Chief Petty Officer	Tactical Weapon Systems Engineers Petty Officer-Chief Petty Officer
Marine Engineer General Service Petty Officer	Marine Engineer General Service Petty Officer
Weapon Engineer General Service Petty Officer	Weapon Engineer General Service Petty Officer
Seaman specialist Able Seaman	Seaman specialist Able Seaman
Mine Warfare Leading Hand-Petty Officer	Mine Warfare Leading Hand-Petty Officer
Medical Technician (Operating Department Practitioner) Leading Hand-Chief Petty Officer	Medical Technician (Operating Department Practitioner) Leading Hand-Chief Petty Officer
Medical Assistant (Submarines) Senior Rates	Medical Assistant (Submarines) Senior Rates
Hydrographic Services Leading Hand	Hydrographic services Leading Hand
Underwater Warfare specialist Able Seaman-Petty Officer	Underwater Warfare specialist– Rank: Able Seaman-Petty Officer
Submarine Coxswain Chief Petty Officer	Submarine Coxswain Chief Petty Officer
Submarine Sonar specialist (SSM) Able Seaman	Submarine Sonar specialist (SSM) Able Seaman
Above Water Warfare specialist Leading Hand	Above Water Warfare specialist Leading Hand
Above Water Tactical specialist Leading Hand	Above Water Tactical specialist Leading Hand
Marine Engineer General Service Chief Petty Officer	Marine Engineer General Service Chief Petty Officer
Chef Able Seaman-Leading Hand	Chef Able Seaman-Leading Hand
Marine Engineer General Service Leading Hand	Marine Engineer General Service Leading Hand
Weapon Engineer General Service Leading Hand	Weapon Engineer General Service Leading Hand
Weapon Engineer Officer (Submarines) Lieutenant	Weapon Engineer Officer (Submarines) Lieutenant
	Submarine Tactical specialist (TSM) Petty Officer-Chief Petty Officer

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list the Royal Navy’s (a) branches, (b) specialisations and (c) sub-specialisations.

Mark Lancaster

The Naval Service’s current branches, specialisations and sub-specialisations, extracted from the Joint Personnel Administration System, are attached.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Royal Navy recruits in each (a) rank and (b) branch specialisation and arm were (a) trained re-entrants, (b) partially trained re-entrants and (c) untrained re-entrants in each financial year from 2005-06 to 2014-15.

Mr Philip Dunne

The information is not held for the whole period requested. I will place copies of the available information in the Library of the House.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department spent on each international subscription in each financial year from 2000-01 to 2014-15.

Mr David Lidington

This information is already publically available. Our spend on international subscriptions has been listed under ‘Programme’ in our Annual Report and Accounts each financial year from 2000-01 to 2014-15. Our Accounts since 2004-05 are available on www.gov.uk; Accounts for earlier years are available in hard copy in the Parliamentary Library and can also be accessed on the FCO pages at webarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department’s global asset management plan.

Mr David Lidington

The Global Asset Management Plan is a commercially sensitive document which, if publicly available, would put the FCO and the UK taxpayer at a severe disadvantage in negotiating sales, purchases and leases. For that reason I will not place a copy of the plan in the Library.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many (a) locally engaged and (b) UK-based staff worked in each overseas post in financial years (i) 2000-01, (ii) 2005-06, (iii) 2010-11 and (iv) 2014-15.

Mr Tobias Ellwood

It is not possible to provide a breakdown of UK based and Locally Engaged Staff prior to 2012/13.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office provided details of UK based staffing at posts in the Annual Accounts and Reports for 2014/2015. The latter can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/foreign-and-commonwealth-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2014-to-2015.

The number of locally engaged staff by post for 2014-15 is shown below [attached file].

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department’s consultation, Enabling closer working between the Emergency Services, whether firefighters employed by police and crime commissioners will retain the right to take part in industrial action; and if he will make a statement.

Greg Clark

The Department for Communities and Local Government, the Home Office and the Department of Health led joint consultation ‘Enabling closer working between the Emergency Services’ has made clear that should Police and Crime Commissioners assume responsibility for fire and rescue services, the important distinction between operational policing and firefighting will be maintained. The consultation did not propose to change the current rules around industrial action.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the operation of the NHS Standard Contract for acute services.

Ben Gummer

The NHS Standard Contract provides a mechanism through which providers of NHS-funded services, including acute services, can be held to account. The Contract includes detailed requirements in relation to the provision of safe, high-quality services and compliance with national policies and NHS Constitution standards. It includes mechanisms which commissioners can use to ensure that services to patients are of a high standard and that providers take prompt action to remedy any failings.

The Contract provides a national framework, but there is scope for commissioners to include local detail appropriate to the services being commissioned (service specifications, specific quality standards). Management of agreed contracts is undertaken not at a national level but by the local commissioner.

Commissioners, providers and representative bodies from all service sectors, as well as national stakeholder bodies including the Department of Health, have been invited to contribute to NHS England’s review of the NHS Standard Contract for 2016/17.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he next plans to review the NHS Standard Contract for acute services.

Ben Gummer

The NHS Standard Contract is reviewed annually by NHS England. NHS England intends to publish an updated version of the Contract for consultation during the coming winter, with the final 2016/17 Contract being published in the New Year for use from 1 April 2016.