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 2015-10-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Royal Navy’s (a) liability, (b) trained strength and (c) untrained strength for each (i) rank and (ii) branch specialisation and arm was in each financial year from 2005-06 to 2014-15.
Mr Philip Dunne
The information requested, from January 2010, is available in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Monthly Personnel Statistics, published on gov.uk at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/royal-naval-monthly-report-personnel-situation-statistics-index
The reports are not available prior to 2010, and this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-23.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of Royal Navy (a) officers and (b) ratings of each branch specialisation and arm were classified as non-deployable in each year from 2005-06 to 2014-15.
Mark Lancaster
The information is not held in the format requested. However, the number and proportion of Naval Service officers and ratings in each branch who were categorised as non-deployable as at April of each year from 2010 is provided below. Information is not available prior to 2010.
All totals are rounded in accordance with the Defence Statistics rounding policy.
|
Branch |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
2015 |
|
|
Officer |
Engineer |
10 |
20 |
20 |
20 |
30 |
30 |
|
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
2% |
2% |
||
|
Logistics |
10 |
10 |
10 |
~ |
10 |
10 |
|
|
2% |
1% |
3% |
1% |
2% |
2% |
||
|
Medical |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
10 |
|
|
1% |
2% |
2% |
3% |
4% |
3% |
||
|
Royal Marines |
~ |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
20 |
|
|
1% |
1% |
1% |
2% |
1% |
2% |
||
|
Warfare |
30 |
30 |
20 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
|
|
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
1% |
||
|
Rating |
Engineer |
300 |
320 |
280 |
350 |
270 |
280 |
|
1% |
3% |
3% |
4% |
3% |
2% |
||
|
Logistics |
170 |
170 |
160 |
170 |
100 |
110 |
|
|
2% |
5% |
6% |
6% |
4% |
5% |
||
|
Medical |
50 |
50 |
30 |
40 |
30 |
40 |
|
|
1% |
6% |
4% |
5% |
4% |
5% |
||
|
Royal Marines |
280 |
260 |
320 |
260 |
160 |
150 |
|
|
1% |
4% |
5% |
4% |
2% |
2% |
||
|
Warfare |
260 |
290 |
280 |
290 |
150 |
150 |
|
|
4% |
4% |
4% |
5% |
3% |
3% |
All numbers are rounded to the nearest 5 with numbers that would be round
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, whether celestial navigation forms part of the Royal Navy’s phase one training.
Mark Lancaster
Yes.
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.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-12.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many district nurses are (a) in training and (b) in service; and how many district nurses were (i) in training and (ii) in service in each of the last five years.
Ben Gummer
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) are responsible for local decisions on services for patients, informed by a wide range of local clinicians. The shape of community nursing services is organised locally, following advice from clinicians. This commissioning process also takes into account the local authority’s views through the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and the local Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
NHS England is working with local CCGs to ensure that services are based on the need of the local population, within the resources available and on evidenced-based best practice.
The latest available data from June 2015 shows that there are 5,033 district nurses in service. The following table contains the number of district nurses that were in service in each of the last five years.
|
Year |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
|
District Nurses in service |
7,813 |
7,132 |
6,611 |
5,877 |
5,590 |
Source: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) monthly workforce statistics
The following table contains the number of district nurses in training in each of the last five completed financial years, with the exception of the 2013/14 data which was not collected centrally by Health Education England. Data is not yet available for the 2015/16 financial year.
|
Year |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
|
District Nurses in training |
236 |
177 |
186 |
n/a |
381 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent progress has been made on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement.
Anna Soubry
There continues to be good progress on the free trade agreement currently being negotiated between the EU and US, also known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), in particular on the technical work which would underpin the final deal.The next negotiating round is taking place 19-23 October in the US.
A trade and investment agreement between the EU and US offers an enormous economic benefit in jobs, investment and lower prices, worth potentially £10 billion a year to the UK Our ambition remains to reach political agreement during the Obama administration and this goal has been given renewed impetus by the completion of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-10-14.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to the Israeli government on the planned demolition of the village of Umm al-Hiran.
Mr Tobias Ellwood
The Government is deeply concerned about the proposals to demolish Bedouin villages in Israel. I visited the Khan al Ahmer Bedouin during my visit in October 2014 and saw the devastating impact resettlement plans had on the communities. Officials at our Embassy in Tel Aviv are monitoring the situation of Umm al-Hiran closely. Embassy officials have also been in contact with the Adalah Legal Centre who continue to provide updates on the legal situation. They have also been in contact with organisations that work within the Bedouin community, such as Itach-Maaki and The Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation-Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, to help inform the UK’s lobbying of the Israeli authorities on this issue. On 10 September, the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr Cameron), and the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), raised their concerns about the Bedouin with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.