Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many hours the Ministry of Defence Royal Military Police Centre on Upper Tulse Hill SW2 2RS is used per week.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
A Royal Military Police Company, Cadet detachment, and associated Cadet headquarters are based at the site. Currently, 77 cadets attend eight hours of training there each week. An additional 388 cadets have passed through the facility between 5 December 2006 and 24 January 2019.
When there is spare capacity, the site is used for training by other Government Departments and for wider defence purposes.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cadets regularly use the Ministry of Defence Royal Military Police Centre on Upper Tulse Hill SW2 2RS; and how many cadets have passed through that facility.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
A Royal Military Police Company, Cadet detachment, and associated Cadet headquarters are based at the site. Currently, 77 cadets attend eight hours of training there each week. An additional 388 cadets have passed through the facility between 5 December 2006 and 24 January 2019.
When there is spare capacity, the site is used for training by other Government Departments and for wider defence purposes.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many citizens of non-UK EU countries work in his Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and, in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules.
Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement on departments to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.
More broadly, the Government will be consulting in due course on how we work with businesses to ensure that workers in this country have the skills that they need to get a job. But there are no proposals to publish lists of the number or proportion of foreign workers.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what policy evaluations have been carried out by external organisations for his Department and its agencies in each financial year since 2010-11; whether the output of those evaluations was published; which organisation carried out each such evaluation; and what the value of each contract to provide that evaluation was.
Answered by Michael Fallon
Information on policy evaluations carried out by external organisations is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what amount his Department and its agencies spent on research and development in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such spending was of total departmental spending.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes annual outturn figures for research and development expenditure. The most recent publication, which includes expenditure figures to 2012 (financial year (FY) 2012-13) was published on 11 July 2014. Specific figures for the Ministry of Defence (MOD), at current prices, are available in Table 3 in the document at: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/rdit1/science--engineering-and-technology-statistics/2012/stb-set-2012.html#tab-Key-Points
Since (FY) 2010-11, the Department’s expenditure on research and development (R&D), at current prices, and as a proportion of total Departmental spend is as follows:
Expenditure (net) by financial year at Current prices
Financial Year | Total MOD Research and Development (£ million) | R&D as a percentage of Total Departmental Spend |
2010-11 | 1,693 | 5.0% |
2011-12 | 1,306 | 3.9% |
2012-13 | 1,460 | 4.6% |
2013-14 | 1,516 | 4.6% |
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what technologies are being developed with support from his Department's Small Business Research Initiative programme; and what assessment he has made of the future potential uses of those technologies.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) uses the Small Business Research Initiative, in conjunction with its own methods, to access innovation from a broad technology supply base. Most of the MOD's Small Business Research Initiative efforts have been with the MOD's Centre of Defence Enterprise as part of the continuing investigation of a full range of technologies relevant to defence.
Since 2008, the Centre of Defence Enterprise has funded over 900 projects covering diverse technologies from cyber to clothing. Over 70% of these have been in conjunction with the Small Business Research Initiative. A full list of all contracts from the Centre of Defence Enterprise since April 2012 is at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cde-funded-contracts
Technologies explored through this route are assessed and evaluated by the MOD's Science and Technology Programme or through development of specific equipment projects.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what total value of contracts was awarded under his Department's Small Business Research Initiative competitions advertised through the Innovate UK website in 2014-15 to date; and for what total contract value his Department has budgeted for the full year.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The total value of contracts awarded via Small Business Research Initiative competitions advertised through the Innovate UK website in financial year 2014-15, to the end of February, is £7.6 million.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what total value of contracts was awarded under his Department's Small Business Research Initiative competitions advertised through the Innovate UK website in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
Answered by Philip Dunne
The total value of contracts awarded via Small Business Research Initiative competitions advertised through the Innovate UK website was £6.7 million in Financial Year (FY) 2012-13 and £8.255 million in FY 2013-14.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what total value of new Phase 1 Small Business Research Initiative contracts were awarded by his Department in (a) 2012-13 and (b) 2013-14.
Answered by Philip Dunne
In financial year (FY) 2012-13, 109 Phase 1 Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) contracts with a value of £6.7 million were awarded.
In FY 2013-14, 132 Phase 1 SBRI contracts with a value of £8.255 million were awarded.
Asked by: Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrat - Streatham)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what total value of new Phase 1 Small Business Research Initiative contracts were awarded by his Department in 2014-15 to date; and for how many contracts to what value his Department has budgeted for the full year.
Answered by Philip Dunne
Based on allocated budgets for these competitions, the Department is planning to spend some £7.6 million via 96 contracts in this financial year on Phase 1 Small Business Research Initiative contracts.