Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the treatment of injury related Armed Forces payments, including the AFPS 05 injury enhancement, in divorce and financial remedy proceedings in England and Wales.
Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The Armed Forces do not have separate divorce procedures applying solely to Service personnel. Any injury-related payments are valued and shared between the parties in accordance with the relevant scheme rules and general divorce law.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what severance payment the rt hon. Member for South Staffordshire received after he left his position as Secretary of State for Defence.
Answered by Ben Wallace
Section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 sets out Ministers' entitlement to severance payments. Any such payments are published in each department's audited annual accounts, and these accounts can be found in the Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Account Index where the severance pay for the right hon. Member for South Staffordshire will be published in 2020. As detailed in Section 4 of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991:
'the amount of the payment to which a person who has ceased to hold a relevant office is entitled under this section is an amount equal to one-quarter of the annual amount of the salary which was being paid to that person in respect of that office immediately before the material time.'
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many mandatory cyber security training sessions civil servants working in his Department are required to undertake.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The Ministry of Defence takes the security of its personnel and establishments very seriously. Cybersecurity is included in induction training for all personnel and messages are regularly repeated, including through annual general security briefs, by direct promulgation of cybersecurity awareness material and through continuously available awareness material. We do not comment publicly on specific security arrangements or procedures.