The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of his Department’s force structure cost model.
Mr Philip Hammond
I am withholding the information requested as its disclosure would be commercially sensitive and would prejudice the economic interests of the United Kingdom as well as the capability, effectiveness and security of the Armed Forces.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-02.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will list the members of the Honours Committee in each of the last five years.
Mr Francis Maude
The Voting Membership of the Main Honours Committee comprises Head of the Civil Service (Chair); Chairs of the 9 Honours Committees; Chief of the Defence Staff; Permanent Secretary of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office; another Permanent Secretary; Cabinet Secretary and a representative from the Prime Minister’s Office. Membershipfor the past five years is set out below. Current membership of all honours committees is available at www.gov.uk/honours-committees.
A copy of the table listing the Membership of the committee over the last 5 years will be placed in the Library of the House.
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who all the core participants in the Al-Sweady Inquiry were; and what the name and firm was of each of those participants’ legal representatives.
Mr Mark Francois
The following Iraqi nationals have been designated as core participants in the Al-Sweady Inquiry as they were either detained, or are related to those who died, during the engagements on 14 May 2004. All are represented by Public Interest Lawyers (PIL):
1. Hamzah Joudah Faraj ALMALJE
2. Mahdi Jasim Abdullah AL-BEHADILI
3. Ibrahim Gattan Hasan AL-ISMAEELI
4. Kadhim Abbas Lafta AL-BEHADILI
5. Abbas Abd Ali Abdulridha AL-HAMEEDAWI
6. Ahmed Jabbar Hammood AL-FURAIJI
7. Hussein Fadhil Abbas AL-BEHADILI
8. Atiyah Sayyid Abdulridha AL-BAIDHANI
9. Hussein Gubari Ali AL-LAMI
10. Kahz’al Jabratallah Khalad Mulla AL-HELFI
11. Hatar Moutashar Zeidan Shamekhy AL-LAMI
12. Khudhur Al-Swaiedi
13. Jasem Khalloufi Khreibet Al Alyawi AL-JAMINDARI
14. Ali Ati Raheemah AL-MOZANI
15. Rashak AL-AMSHANI
16. Sabrah Maryoosh HUSSEIN
17. Kamil Mowat Mohammed AL-MOZANI
18. Saad Radhi Khafeef AL-KEEMY
19. Yousef Ouda BADAY
20. Qassim Ghelan Neema Sahn AL-MAJIDI
21. Bareq Mohammed Hussein AL-KHALIFA
22. Ahmed Mshatat KAZEM
23. Karam Yaseen Laheet Sneshee AL-MOZANI
24. Zahra Resan MUHSIN
25. Abdelzahra Atti DAWOOD
26. Mahud Jihaijeh Dawood AL-MOZANI
27. Ali Jaseeb Ghazi AL-MUHAMMADAWI
28. Jabra Abdulah MOHSIN
29. Nasser Ali Husain AL-DOUGHAAN
The remaining Iraqi witnesses, most of whom are also represented by PIL, are considered by the Inquiry to be witnesses rather than core participants.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is also a core participant in the Inquiry as it is the Government Department that was responsible for the conduct of the British Servicemen who are the subject of allegations.
Although the Treasury Solicitor’s Department is not a core participant, the Inquiry Chairman has accorded them equivalent status in recognition of the very large number (over 500) of current and former service personnel that they represent in this Inquiry.
A smaller number of military witnesses were either unrepresented or represented by Kennedy’s and are considered witnesses, not core participants.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the level of traffic congestion in Mid Sussex constituency in each year since 1997.
Mr Robert Goodwill
Estimates of road congestion levels for Parliamentary constituencies are not held centrally.
We do however hold data at the local authority level. Road congestion is measured in the Department by morning peak speeds, defined as 7am to 10am. In 2013, the average weekday morning peak speed, on locally managed ‘A’ roads in West Sussex County (local authority), which contains Mid Sussex constituency, was estimated to be 30.2 miles per hour.The equivalent figure for the whole of England in 2013 was 24.7 miles per hour.
Equivalent figures for earlier years back to 2007, and all other local highway authorities in England, can be found on the Department for Transport’s website at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/279125/cgn0206.xls
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) amount her Department spent and (b) fee income it has received in connection with (i) the asylum system, (ii) immigration control at home and abroad and (iii) enforcement in each of the last 10 years.
James Brokenshire
The Home Office does not have this information broken down on the financial
system in line with the question. The published accounts for the former UK
Border Agency break down relevant income and expenditure information since 2009
and also in the Home Office Report and Accounts for 2012-13. These can be found
at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?official_document_status=command_and_
act_papers
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the population in (a) 2025 and (b) 2050 of those built-up areas showing a population of 100,000 or more in the 2011 census.
Mr Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish his Department’s assessment of lessons learned from the recent Libyan campaign.
Mr Mark Francois
The Department has a very thorough lessons learned process which is normally applied when an operation is initiated. However, due to operational security sensitivities we do not, as a matter of course, publish the findings of such processes. We have no plans to publish any lessons learned from Op Ellamy.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the next 40 infrastructure projects are that the Government plans to undertake; and in what order the Government plans to undertake those projects.
Danny Alexander
The Government published its top 40 priority infrastructure investments in its National Infrastructure Plan (December 2013). This included projected construction start and finish dates. The relevant information is contained in Annex A of the Plan, accessible here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-infrastructure-plan-2013
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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-06-04.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the through life cost is for each of the 14 Voyager aircraft.
Mr Philip Dunne
We do not possess through life cost information for individual aircraft in the Voyager fleet. Under the Voyager PFI solution the MoD is not buying aircraft but a 27 year integrated Air Transport and Air to Air Refuelling service which is underpinned by the provision of 14 aircraft, the infrastructure, personnel, training and training school (including a full mission simulator), aircraft maintenance and engineering, spares, despatch and ground support. The outturn value of the contract is £10.5 billion over 27 years, excluding fuel and other associated usage costs.
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2014-04-28.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to consolidate departmental funding streams into a single national infrastructure fund; and if he will make a statement.
Danny Alexander
The Government believes that there is a powerful case for giving local business and political leaders the levers they need to create jobs and drive growth. In ‘Investing in Britain’s Future’, the Government accepted Lord Heseltine’s recommendations to devolve economic power to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) through the creation of the Local Growth Fund (LGF) with over £2 billion of budgets from skills, housing and transport for 2015-16. An area’s allocation from the LGF will be available to be spent on the priorities LEPs and their partners have determined in their strategic economic plans.
The Government allocated capital funds between programmes at Spending Review 2010 and Spending Round 2013 on the basis of a zero-based review of the economic returns of every central government capital programme, with investment being targeted increasingly at economic infrastructure. Once allocated between programmes, funds were moved into the appropriate departmental budgets to allow departments to deliver those programmes.