Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of Armed Forces veterans from wars since 1990 who reside in Ashfield constituency; and what comparative assessment he has made of that figure and the average for constituencies.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
This information is not held in the format requested. The Ministry of Defence does not collect or hold information on all veterans and does not collect information by constituency.
An estimated distribution, by county, of the UK Armed Forces veteran population residing in Great Britain can be found in the 'Annual Population Survey: UK Armed Forces Veterans Residing in Great Britain', the latest edition of which (2016) is published at the following address: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/annual-population-survey-uk-armed-forces-veterans-residing-in-great-britain. As at 2016, there may have been around 40,000 veterans residing in the county of Nottinghamshire.
In addition, the Department also publishes information on the location of veterans who have been awarded compensation under the War Pension Scheme and / or the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, or who are in receipt of their employment pension. The latest statistics (as at 31 March 2017) indicate that there were 634 veterans residing in Ashfield in receipt of compensation and / or a pension. These statistics are published on the Gov.uk website at the following address:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/location-of-armed-forces-pension-and-compensation-recipients-2017
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people from (a) Ashfield, (b) Mansfield and (c) Broxtowe joined (i) the Army, (ii) the Navy and (iii) the RAF in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The requested information is provided in the table below.
| 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
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Naval Service | 10 | 10 | 10 | ~ | 10 |
Army | 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 |
Royal Air Force | 10 | ~ | 10 | 10 | ~ |
Broxtowe |
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Naval Service | 10 | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
Army | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Royal Air Force | ~ | ~ | ~ | - | ~ |
Mansfield |
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Naval Service | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 10 |
Army | 20 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Royal Air Force | 10 | ~ | 10 | ~ | 10 |
Data Source: Single Service Estimates
Notes:
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average hourly pay is of employees at each grade within his Department identified as (a) White or White British and (b) from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has separate pay scales for each grade. These consist of a minimum and maximum in between which are various spine points. An individual's position within each scale is dependent on an individual's career history. The treatment and calculation of pay is applied consistently for all members of staff. In addition to base salary, individuals can receive pay related allowances based upon the requirement of the post they are filling. The hourly rate is based upon the total remuneration package that individuals receive. Information on the average hourly pay of MOD civilian employees at each grade within his Department identified as White or White British and from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group is set out in the table below:
Grade Grouping | White | BAME (1) | Choose Not to Declare (2) | No Record (2) |
SCS & B1 (3) | 30.97 | 33.36 | 29.55 | 36.61 |
B2 | 24.04 | 24.54 | 24.07 | 24.53 |
C1 | 18.28 | 18.55 | 18.47 | 18.20 |
C2 | 14.75 | 15.03 | 15.13 | 14.70 |
D | 11.92 | 12.23 | 12.27 | 11.75 |
E1 | 9.52 | 9.85 | 9.57 | 9.30 |
E2 | 8.34 | 8.99 | 8.33 | 8.05 |
Skill Zone 1 | 8.47 | 8.46 | 8.50 | 8.42 |
Skill Zone 2 | 9.36 | 9.51 | 9.34 | 9.20 |
Skill Zone 3 | 10.62 | 10.42 | 10.59 | 9.44 |
Skill Zone 4 | 12.73 | 13.45 | 12.50 | 12.81 |
DFS | 14.17 | 12.97 | 16.62 | 13.27 |
MOD Police | 17.90 | 17.72 | 18.50 | 15.00 |
NHS (4) | 19.99 | 22.93 | 25.39 | 20.28 |
Teachers (4) | 21.43 | 21.71 | 24.80 | 21.10 |
Retained Grades (5) | 17.17 | 16.20 | 23.13 | 15.08 |
Notes:
1 Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic.
2 Ethnicity is a self declared characteristic on the civilian Human Resources Management System. As such, those personnel who have not declared at all and/or have chosen "not to declare" are reflected under the heading "Choose Not to Declare".
3 The figures for grades Senior Civil Service (SCS) and B1 have been grouped because of the low numbers involved.
4 The MOD employs a number of teachers in military schools and medical staff in MOD hospitals. Their grades and pay rates reflect the equivalents to their counterparts outside of the MOD.
5 Retained grades are those who do not fit into broader banded categories (e.g. Flight Simulator Instructors, Salvage/Mooring Officers and Retired Officer grades).
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of employees in his Department identify as (a) white or white British, (b) Asian or Asian British, (c) Black or Black British, (d) mixed or multiple ethnic group and (e) another ethnicity.
Answered by Anna Soubry
Information on the number and proportion of employees in the Ministry of Defence identified as white or white British, Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, mixed or multiple ethnic group and another ethnicity is shown in the following tables:
Service Personnel as at 1 April 2014:
All Personnel | White | Asian | Black | Mixed | Other | Unknown | |
All Services | 159,630 | 146,440 | 1,955 | 6,450 | 2,025 | 770 | 1,980 |
92.9% | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1.3% | 0.5% |
Notes:
1. Percentages are calculated from unrounded data and only include personnel with a known ethnic origin.
2. Asian comprises: Asian Bangladeshi, Asian Pakistani, Asian Indian and other Asian Backgrounds, and reflecting changes made in the 2011 Census, now includes Chinese.
Black comprises: Black Caribbean, Black African and other Black Backgrounds.
Mixed comprises: Mixed Black African and White, Mixed Asian and White, Mixed Black Caribbean and White and other Mixed Ethnic Backgrounds.
Other is defined as “other ethnic background”.
Unknown includes those with an unrecorded ethnic origin and those who chose not to declare.
Civilian Personnel at 1 April 2014:
Total Civilian Personnel | White | Asian | Black | Mixed | Other | Unknown | |
41,400 | 39,780 | 840 | 360 | 310 | 110 | 6,570 | |
* | 96.1% | 2.0% | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.3% | * |
Notes:
1. The table above excludes Trading Funds, Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) and Locally Engaged Civilians overseas (LEC) for whom declaration data are not available.
2. Percentages are calculated from unrounded data and only include personnel with a known ethnic origin.
3. Asian comprises: Asian Bangladeshi, Asian Pakistani, Asian Indian and other Asian Backgrounds, and reflecting changes made in the 2011 Census, now includes Chinese.
Black comprises: Black Caribbean, Black African and other Black Backgrounds.
Mixed comprises: Mixed Black African and White, Mixed Asian and White, Mixed Black Caribbean and White and other Mixed Ethnic Backgrounds.
Other is defined as "other ethnic background".
4. Ethnicity is a self declared characteristic on the civilian Human Resources Management System. As such, those personnel that have not declared at all and/or have chosen "not to declare" are reflected under the heading "Unknown" in the table above.
Asked by: Gloria De Piero (Labour - Ashfield)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) women and (b) men have made a statutory application to request flexible working in his Department; and how many of those applications have been granted to date.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The Ministry of Defence recognises that it is more likely to attract and retain high calibre staff if it allows its civilian employees to create a good work-life balance. The Department therefore strongly encourages managers to meet requests for non standard working patterns from all civilian staff wherever business requirements allow. Many such requests are agreed at a local level on a non-statutory basis. The Department holds information on those statutory requests for flexible working which have been approved from 1 September 2011. Since that date, some 125 women and 30 men have had their statutory requests approved. However, information on applications which have been rejected is not held centrally. It is therefore not possible to state the total number of statutory applications made.