Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many former full-time Armed Forces personnel (a) applied to and (b) joined the Reserves in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the right hon. Member’s Questions. I will write to him when the information is available, and a copy of this letter will be placed in the Library of The House.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the oral statement by the Minister for Veteran's Affairs on Resettlement of Afghans of 19 September 2023, Official Report, column 1253, how many and what proportion of the Afghans that were housed in temporary accommodation under the local authority homelessness provision on 19 September 2023 have since been moved into permanent accommodation.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The department continues to monitor homelessness in these groups, and further data will be published on this in due course. This will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-management-information-afghan-nationals-england.
We publish data on this subject on an ad hoc basis that is voluntarily provided by local authorities. The last time information was published was in September 2023 and related to 1 July 2023 to 31 August 2023. This data was published to monitor the success of the move of Afghans out of hotels into settled accommodation.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many Afghans under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme are in temporary accommodation provided under local authority homelessness provision.
Answered by Felicity Buchan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
The department continues to monitor homelessness in these groups, and further data will be published on this in due course. This will be available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/homelessness-management-information-afghan-nationals-england.
We publish data on this subject on an ad hoc basis that is voluntarily provided by local authorities. The last time information was published was in September 2023 and related to 1 July 2023 to 31 August 2023. This data was published to monitor the success of the move of Afghans out of hotels into settled accommodation.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many international trade shows UK Defence and Security Exports officials (a) supported and (b) attended in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
A) Supported by a UKDSE exhibition stand presence:
Information prior to 2014-2015 unavailable.
2014-2015
19
2015-2016
24
2016-2017
17
2017-2018
24
2018-2019
22
2019-2020
21
2020-2021
3
2021-2022
7
2022-2023
8
2023-2024
14
B) Attended
UK Defence and Security Exports has not consistently recorded this information centrally. Individual attendance records are not held in the format requested.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Royal Navy, (b) Army and (c) RAF personnel worked on military recruitment in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Information in response to the right hon. Member's Question is as follows:
Royal Navy
As of January 2024, there were 453 personnel employed to deliver recruitment with an additional surge support of some 85 personnel to enable transition to the New Recruiting Process. Historic information is not available.
Army
Financial Year | Personnel |
2010/12 | 526 |
2012/13 | 1050 |
2013/14 | 742 |
2014/15 | 742 |
2015/16 | 742 |
2016/17 | 736 |
2017/18 | 736 |
2018/19 | 424 |
2019/20 | 427 |
2020/21 | 427 |
2021/22 | 427 |
2022/23 | 427 |
2023/24 | 427 |
For information about additional Capita staff, not included in these figures, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 15 January 2024 to Question 7766 to the hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne, which is available at: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-01-05/7766.
Royal Air Force
Calendar Year | Personnel |
2010 | 439 |
2011 | 371 |
2012 | 332 |
2013 | 339 |
2014 | 356 |
2015 | 387 |
2016 | 396 |
2017 | 403 |
2018 | 436 |
2019 | 435 |
2020 | 429 |
2021 | 432 |
2022 | 415 |
2023 | 334 |
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many appeals against medical assessments of potential full time UK Armed Forces recruits were (a) submitted, (b) successful and (c) unsuccessful in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether Armed Forces Recruiting Offices allow for walk-ins by potential new recruits.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Armed Forces Career Offices do allow for walk-ins by potential new recruits during office hours. Alternatively, people interested in a career in the Armed Forces can access online recruitment portals at any time.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2024 to Question 14458 on Asylum: hotels, how many asylum seekers are being housed in UK hotel accommodation by his Department as of 17 April 2024.
Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
The Home Office has been clear that the use of hotels is a temporary and necessary measure to ensure we meet our statutory obligation to accommodate destitute asylum seekers. We have already made significant progress by no longer using 100 hotels for asylum seekers on 31 March 2024. A total of 150 hotels will no longer be used for accommodating asylum seekers by the beginning of May, reducing the strain on local communities.
Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Data is published on a quarterly basis.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what funding UK Defence and Security Exports offers to companies to exhibit at international defence and security trade shows.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
UK Defence and Security Exports does not offer any funding to companies to exhibit at international defence and security trade shows. UKDSE offers other services to companies such as equipment demonstration through the Export Support team and opportunity to purchase space on the main UK stand at some events.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the annual budget was for UK Defence and Security Exports in each year since 2010.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
UK Defence and Security Export’s outturn is not available before 2016/17. Please see below the full year outturn for UK Defence and Security Exports for the period 2016/17 - 2022/23.
2016/2017 | UKDSE | £9.7m |
2017/2018 | UKDSE | £10.0m |
2018/2019 | UKDSE | £9.9m |
2019/2020 | UKDSE | £10.0m |
2020/2021 | UKDSE | £9.7m |
2021/2022 | UKDSE | £12.0m |
2022/2023 | UKDSE | £13.7m |
Please note that the 2023/24 outturn will be available once DBT’s accounts are finalised.