Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) state and (b) independent schools had cadet units in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The requested information is only available from 2012. The number of state and independent schools with Cadet units is as follows:
Year |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Indep |
| 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 190 | 191 | 194 | 198 | 198 | 200 | 201 | 200 | 201 |
State |
| 68 | 75 | 98 | 123 | 144 | 187 | 221 | 275 | 170 | 264 | 268 | 270 | 268 |
Information about other SCC or Community Cadet Units (closed or otherwise) that are accommodated on the school premises, but are not of that school, is not held. The use of the school’s facilities would be arranged at local level, mainly through Reserved Forces and Cadets Association, and often as a monetary benefit to the school.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of cadets enrolled in cadet forces sponsored by his Department; what targets his Department has set for increasing cadet numbers in cadet forces sponsored by his Department in each of the next three years; and how much funding his Department has made available to help expand cadet numbers in cadet forces sponsored by his Department in the same period.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the 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: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of cadets enrolled in school-based cadet units; what targets his Department has set for increasing cadet numbers in school-based cadet units in each of the next three years; and how much funding his Department has made available to help expand cadet numbers in school-based cadet units in the same period.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the 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: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in (a) Defence Equipment & Support and (b) the Submarine Delivery Agency have job titles which include the words (i) equality, (ii) diversity, (iii) inclusion, (iv) gender, (v) LGBT and (vi) race.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
Staff employed by Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) and the Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) have both a Success Profile and an Email Tally. Success Profiles provide outlines of roles, key responsibilities and formal qualifications needed, as well as required technical competences and behaviours, which are aligned to wider Civil Service behaviours. No DE&S or SDA Success Profile includes the words 'equality', 'diversity', 'inclusion', 'gender', 'LGBT' or 'race'.
Email Tallies are short summaries of an individual's current team and role which appear after their name in the Ministry of Defence's Global Address List. While staff will be formally assigned to a Success Profile on joining either DE&S or SDA, Email Tallies may be amended to reflect changes to the nature of an individual's role over time.
In total fewer than 15 members of staff across DE&S and SDA have Email Tallies that include either the word 'diversity' and/or the word 'inclusion', or abbreviations thereof. No Email Tallies in either DE&S or SDA include the words 'equality', 'gender', 'LGBT' or 'race'.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department have job titles which include the words (a) equality, (b) diversity, (c) inclusion, (d) gender, (e) LGBT and (f) race.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
It is taking time to collate the required information to answer the hon. Member's question. 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: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many young people were members of (a) air, (b) sea and (c) army cadet units in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The below table shows cadet strengths at 1 April each year since 2010.
| All Sea Cadet Corps | Army Cadet Force | All Air Training Corps |
1 April 2010 | 8,310 | 46,990 | 33,560 |
*1 April 2011 | 12,910 | 44,890 | 35,210 |
1 April 2012 | 13,860 | 45,110 | 35,750 |
1 April 2013 | 13,740 | 43,860 | 33,490 |
1 April 2014 | 13,630 | 41,040 | 33,590 |
1 April 2015 | 13,710 | 41,370 | 33,370 |
1 April 2016 | 14,100 | 39,760 | 32,860 |
1 April 2017 | 14,000 | 38,810 | 31,190 |
1 April 2018 | 14,100 | 38,080 | 31,610 |
1 April 2019 | 14,540 | 37,670 | 32,850 |
1 April 2020 | 14,670 | 37,410 | 32,760 |
1 April 2021 | 13,220 | 34,080 | 26,300 |
1 April 2022 | 13,580 | 33,300 | 26,040 |
1 April 2023 | 13,730 | 38,180 | 31,420 |
*From 1 April 2011, Sea Cadet Corps figures include juniors (10-11 year olds) whereas they were previously excluded.
Annual statistics on the strength of Ministry of Defence sponsored cadet forces for 2016 – 2023 are published on gov.uk at the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-sponsored-cadet-forces-statistics-index
Statistics on the strength of community cadet forces as at 1 April each year can be found at Table 1 in the latest publication’s accompanying MS Excel spreadsheet.
Cadet statistics prior to 2016 were published in the UK reserve forces and cadets strength reports on gov.uk at the following link:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/strength-of-the-uk-reserve-forces-index
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many equalities impact assessments his Department completed in each of the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence does not record this data centrally and it could only be provided at disproportionate cost. Internal Departmental guidance is for those conducting Equality Impact Assessments (EIA) to retain them at a local level. There is no legal requirement to record EIAs centrally.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian employees (a) his Department has and (b) have joined as new employees in each of the last five years.
Answered by Johnny Mercer - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
The information is published on the gov.uk website and can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mod-biannual-civilian-personnel-statisticsindex
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many members of staff in their Department have one or more of the words equality, diversity, inclusion, gender, LGBT or race in their job title.
Answered by Johnny Mercer - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
45 civilian positions in the Ministry of Defence and its Executive Agencies specifically include one or more of the words equality, diversity, inclusion, gender, LGBT or race in their job title as recorded by the electronic Human Resources Management System.
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Department spent on unconscious bias training in each of the last five years.
Answered by Johnny Mercer - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
Unconscious Bias training is undertaken by members of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) via an e-learning package on the Civil Service Learning Platform. The learning is free at the point of use, so there is no associated per-person cost for this training to be carried out. The MOD contributes to the funding of Civil Service HR, including Civil Service Learning annually, therefore it is not possible to disaggregate the cost of Unconscious Bias training from the wider budget.