Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to publish the results of his Department's survey on its Family Accommodation Model; whether he plans to publish the results to all questions in that survey; and whether any such publication will include all data from the comments sections of that survey.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The Future Accommodation Model (FAM) Survey closed on 3 October, having received almost 28,000 responses from our Service personnel. These responses will help the Ministry of Defence understand what the FAM could look like. The Survey results, including all of the comments, are now being processed and will be subject to rigorous analysis in the normal way. The large number of responses means that this process will take longer than initially anticipated, although we hope to be in a position to publish the results in full in early 2017.
Qualitative analysis of the comments section will form part of the results and will be published in a way that protects anonymity.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving members of the armed forces have dependent children.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
As at 1 July 2016, there were 185,310 serving members of the Armed Forces with 57,590 dependent children.
Individual Service personnel self-declare the number of children they have on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) database. For the purposes of this question, a dependent child is defined as any child under the age of 18, as recorded on JPA. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid systematic bias.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many serving armed forces personnel are in receipt of Continuity of Education Allowance; and in respect of how many children such allowances are allocated.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
There are 3,008 serving Armed Forces personnel in receipt of Continuity of Education Allowance for 4,454 children.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many children in the UK have at least one parent serving in the armed forces.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
This information is not held in the format requested
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people have been (a) killed and (b) injured as a result of accidents during exercises at the army training ground at Otterburn in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
In the period 1 January 2006 to 4 September 2016, there has been one death whilst on training or exercise at Otterburn training area. The death occurred in 2016.
The table below shows the recorded number of personnel injured on training or exercise at Otterburn in the period 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2016 reported through the MOD Health and Safety and Casualty Notification process. These totals may not include all injuries, as some minor injuries may have been treated immediately and not reported. Reporting of injuries is improving, and usage of the training area has increased since 2015.
Year | Numbers |
2008-09 | ~ |
2009-10 | 26 |
2010-11 | 26 |
2011-12 | 18 |
2012-13 | 42 |
2013-14 | 58 |
2014-15 | 54 |
2015-16 | 119 |
2016-172 | ~ |
Total | 357 |
Source: Notification of Casualties (NOTICAS); MOD Health and Safety databases
Footnotes:
1.Personnel includes Regular personnel, Reservist Personnel, Cadets and Civilians.
2.Data only available between 1 April 2016 to 30 June 2016.
Data presented as "~" has been suppressed in accordance with Defence Statistics rounding policy.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for how many properties vacated by a service family leaving service family accommodation at march out Carillion Amey has accepted a cleaning fee in the last three years; how much was charged for each clean; which contractor performed the deep clean and how the standard for that clean was assessed.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
From 1 November 2014 to 31 March 2016, 6,230 Service Family Accommodation (SFA) houses have been subject to the Walkaway (deep clean) scheme. This is a voluntary scheme and individuals can choose to undertake the cleaning themselves. Data prior to this date is not held.
Customers may select various cleaning options for which the average spend is £219 (exc. VAT). A full schedule of rates in relation to the scheme is published on the CarillionAmey website
A list of contractors who clean properties is shown in the following table:
CONTRACTOR | REGION COVERED |
Amey Community Ltd | SW, Central – East |
Jones & Hampton Ltd | Central - West |
GB Electrical Ltd | SW, Central – West |
Office & General Environmental Services | South East |
CLC Contractors Ltd Central | North |
Team Q Ltd (until 1 March 2016) | Scotland |
Amey Community Ltd (since 1 March 2016) | Scotland |
Turkingtons Ltd | Northern Ireland |
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The CarillionAmey Accommodation Officer is responsible for checking the work has been completed and is to move in standard prior to occupation by a service family.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many challenges to the new Service Family Accommodation gradings have resulted in a change of banding since 1 February 2016; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Between 1 February 2016 and 17 April 2016 a total of 1,675 challenges to the Combined Accommodation Assessment System (CAAS) were received by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation - 24 of these resulted in changes to CAAS bandings.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many challenges to the new Service Family Accommodation gradings have been received by the Cost Assurance and Analysis Service since 1 February 2016; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Between 1 February 2016 and 17 April 2016 a total of 1,675 challenges to the Combined Accommodation Assessment System (CAAS) were received by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation - 24 of these resulted in changes to CAAS bandings.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to publish (a) CarillionAmey's key performance indicators (KPIs) and (b) his Department's assessment of the extent to which those KPIs have been met in each year of the present contract.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The Ministry of Defence has no plans to publish CarillionAmey's (CA) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) externally.
However letters are sent out each month as part of a wider Accommodation performance update to key stakeholders, including the Families Federations. These letters report on the following national housing prime contract KPIs.
Service Family Accommodation (SFA) allocations;
Void property preparation;
Move-in;
Helpdesk telephone response;
Reactive maintenance;
Statutory and Mandatory checks; and
Stage 1 complaints.
CA have not met all their KPIs since contract award, however the Department has now installed a comprehensive plan in this and other contracts which CA are responsible for which has meant that as of March the vast majority of national housing prime contract KPIs are now being met or exceeded.
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many properties are managed by CarillionAmey on behalf of his Department; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
On 31 January 2016, CarillionAmey were responsible for managing 46,911 Service Family Accommodation properties on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.