Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
Oral Answers to Questions
"If the range and capability of our battle tanks and armoured vehicles are inferior to that of our potential adversaries, it is difficult for our world-class armed forces to continue to operate in that sphere. Will the Minister assure the House that the Challenger 2 and Warrior programmes will be …..."Toby Perkins - View Speech
View all Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
Oral Answers to Questions
"T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities...."Toby Perkins - View Speech
View all Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Mar 2020
Oral Answers to Questions
"Members across the House take huge pride in the people in their constituency who join our armed forces, but would it not give greater focus to our pride if figures were published regularly to show how many from each constituency join each year? Will the Secretary of State see if …..."Toby Perkins - View Speech
View all Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Written Question
Thursday 27th February 2020
Asked by:
Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)
Question
to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the number of people who surrendered their war widow's pension on remarrying or cohabiting before before 1 April 2015.
Answered by Johnny Mercer
The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Written Question
Wednesday 5th February 2020
Asked by:
Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)
Question
to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many of the people recruited by the (a) British Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force in 2019 resided in (i) Chesterfield constituency, (ii) Derbyshire and (iii) the East Midlands.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The requested information is provided in the table below:
Intake to the Untrained Regular Armed Forces from Chesterfield, Derbyshire and the East Midlands, 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2019
Enlistment Location | Royal Navy/Royal Marines (RN/RM) | British Army | Royal Air Force (RAF) |
Chesterfield | ~ | 10 | ~ |
Derbyshire | 30 | 110 | 50 |
East Midlands | 150 | 520 | 270 |
Notes:
- Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10 in line with disclosure control policy. Figures ending in 5 are rounded to the nearest 20 to avoid bias, 5 or fewer is represented by '~'.
- For the RN/RM and RAF, Parliamentary Constituency, County and Region have been identified from known full contact postcodes as recorded in the Defence Recruitment System (DRS).
- For the Army, Local Authority has been derived using the Postcode District only, not the full postcode. Due to this, there could be instances where a Postcode District covers more than one Local Authority.
- The figures for Chesterfield are a subset of those for Derbyshire, which are in turn a subset of the figures provided for the East Midlands.
- There are around 600 Army personnel, 800 Royal Navy and Royal Marine personnel and 40 Royal Air Force personnel who did not have a postcode on entry and some of these may come from the Chesterfield, Derbyshire or the East Midlands region.
Written Question
Monday 3rd February 2020
Asked by:
Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)
Question
to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was his Department's performance against Departmental Expenditure Limits in 2018-19 for (a) salaries, (b) accommodation and (c) equipment.
Answered by James Heappey
The Ministry of Defence performance in financial year 2018-19 for salaries, accommodation and equipment are published in the department's annual report and accounts, which can be found on https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/831728/MOD_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2018-19_WEB__ERRATUM_CORRECTED_.pdf
Written Question
Monday 3rd February 2020
Asked by:
Toby Perkins (Labour - Chesterfield)
Question
to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department underspent on (a) salaries, (b) accommodation and (c) equipment in 2019 through not achieving its target of a British Army standing strength of 82,000.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
The Defence Secretary has made recruitment and retention in the British Army the Chief of the General Staff's overriding objective.
The Department's financial planning process allows for regular re-prioritisation of funds. Accommodation and equipment costs are relatively fixed in the short term and are unlikely to vary with fluctuations in strength.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"8. What recent assessment she has made of trends in the number of Army personnel. ..."Toby Perkins - View Speech
View all Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"The Minister, along with every other Conservative Member of Parliament who was elected or re-elected in 2015, was elected on a manifesto promise that there would be a standing Army of 82,000. That has never been achieved since 2015, and, indeed, on 1 April the size of the fully trained …..."Toby Perkins - View Speech
View all Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"T7. For all the warm words from the Armed Forces Minister about Army recruitment moving in the right direction, is the truth not that for every single year we have had a Conservative Government the size of the fully trained Army has been smaller than the year before? Is it …..."Toby Perkins - View Speech
View all Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) contributions to the debate on: Oral Answers to Questions