Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 February 2016 to Question 26813, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of excess fares allowance, paid car allowances or subsidised health insurance.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Personnel in receipt of Excess Fares Allowance, Paid Car Allowance or Subsidised Health Insurance are employed in the Job Families outlined below:
Business Management and Improvement | Estates |
Commercial | Finance |
Communications and Media | Health Professionals |
Corporate Support | Health, Safety and Environmental Protection |
Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Commercial | Human Resources |
DE&S Corporate Services | Information |
DE&S Engineering | Internal Audit |
DE&S Finance and Accounting | Logistics |
DE&S Human Resources | Policy Strategy and Parliamentary |
DE&S Information Management and IT | Portfolio, Programme and Project |
DE&S Integrated Logistics | Security |
DE&S Project Controls | Training and Education |
DE&S Project Management |
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Defence Intelligence |
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Engineering and Science |
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Notes:
Job Families are a broader grouping based upon the type of role.
Job Families where five or less personnel are in receipt of one or more allowances have not been included.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff in his Department and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Information on non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, I am able to provide the following information for core Ministry of Defence Civil Servants.
Home to work travel allowance has been interpreted as Excess Fares Allowance. This is paid to staff who move from one establishment to another on the Department's instruction. It is normally paid for a maximum period of four years and compensates the officer for additional travel costs they have incurred as a result of the move. The number in receipt of regular Excess Fares Allowance is 1,390.
Car allowance and subsidised health insurance are not routinely paid. There are, however, four officers in receipt of car allowance and 14 officers in receipt of subsidised health insurance as they retained their terms and conditions following an inward transfer from the private sector under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which regulations his Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.
Answered by Julian Brazier
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my my right hon. Friend the Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise (Anna Soubry) on11 November 2015 to Question 15037.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments in respect of carbon offsetting were made in each such year.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The Ministry of Defence has spent the following on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years:
Budget Year | Offset Costs |
2012-13 | £11,611 |
2013-14 | £17,829.32 |
2014-15 |
Offsets for 2013-14 and 2014-15 were purchased together and cannot be separated.
Payments in respect of the carbon offsetting were made to the Carbon Footprint Ltd via the Crown Commercial Service.
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The vast majority of Ministry of Defence (MOD) mobile phones are supplied via the central Defence Fixed Telecommunications Service (DFTS). For standard issue phones, the downloading of external applications is not enabled.
There are a number of trials of Android devices (including tablets and smart phones) underway in the MOD. Users with devices supplied via the DFTS trial can download most applications as required, although security considerations prevent them from downloading some applications. Users with tablets supplied via the central Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) trial can download only a limited set of applications from an internal applications store.
Outside the provisions of the DFTS and DII arrangements, some MOD business areas have purchased devices (mobile phones and tablets) and associated applications independently. However, there is no business requirement to record details centrally; as a result, collated information related to these is not held.