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 property maintenance requests have been received by CarillionAmey on behalf of his Department in each of the last five years.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The National Housing Prime contract was fully implemented on 1 December 2014 replacing the previous separate UK arrangements.
On that date, CarillionAmey became responsible for the repair and maintenance service. The number of maintenance requests received from that date (by month) is shown in the following table:
| Financial Year 2014-15 | Financial Year 2015-16 |
April | n/a | 21,585 |
May | n/a | 20,020 |
June | n/a | 21,213 |
July | n/a | 22,144 |
August | n/a | 20,945 |
September | n/a | 24,224 |
October | n/a | 23,185 |
November | n/a | 23,627 |
December | 13,493 | 24,648 |
January | 23,205 | 24,634 |
February | 25,188 | - |
March | 23,520 | - |
Totals | 85,406 | 226,225 |
Data is not yet available for February or March of financial year 2015-16.
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 enable armed forces personnel who train as drivers to receive transferable civilian HGV qualifications.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Drivers within the Armed Forces undertake the same vehicle licence training, resulting in the same licences, as their civilian counterparts. Drivers leaving the Ministry of Defence will retain (unless expired through the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) all the vehicle licences that they have gained during their service career.
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 of the signatories to the Corporate Covenant are (a) educational establishments, (b) public health bodies, including NHS foundation trusts, (c) ambulance trusts and (d) private sector limited companies.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
As at 8 March 2016 a total of 891 organisations had signed a Corporate Pledge to the Armed Forces Covenant. The requested breakdown is provided below:
Educational establishments (including training companies) | 79 |
of which, schools, colleges and universities | 41 |
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Public Health Bodies (excluding Ambulance Trusts) | 25 |
of which, NHS Foundation Trusts | 12 |
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Ambulance Trusts | 5 |
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Private companies | 763 |
of which, private companies with ‘Limited’ in their name | 355 |
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 signatories there are to the Corporate Covenant to date; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
As at 8 March 2016 a total of 891 organisations had signed a Corporate Pledge to the Armed Forces Covenant. The requested breakdown is provided below:
Educational establishments (including training companies) | 79 |
of which, schools, colleges and universities | 41 |
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Public Health Bodies (excluding Ambulance Trusts) | 25 |
of which, NHS Foundation Trusts | 12 |
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Ambulance Trusts | 5 |
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Private companies | 763 |
of which, private companies with ‘Limited’ in their name | 355 |
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 Armed Forces Covenant Report 2015; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The 2015 Armed Forces Covenant Annual Report is scheduled for publication in December 2015.
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 times RAF Boulmer has been called on to assist the North East Air Ambulance Service on emergency and search and rescue missions in each of the last five years.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The number of times RAF Boulmer was called upon to assist the North East Air Ambulance is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The total number of annual Search and Rescue (SAR) callouts from RAF Boulmer for the last ten years is shown in the table below:
Year | RAF Boulmer – SAR Callouts |
2005 | 144 |
2006 | 206 |
2007 | 170 |
2008 | 211 |
2009 | 214 |
2010 | 193 |
2011 | 181 |
2012 | 141 |
2013 | 157 |
2014 | 160 |
Total | 1,777 |