Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to increase the number of cadet units in state schools.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
The Government has committed £50 million from LIBOR fines to increase the number of cadet units in UK state schools through the Cadet Expansion Programme. The joint Ministry of Defence/Department for Education programme is targeting schools in less affluent areas and we have had a substantial number of applications to establish new units. This demonstrates the interest that schools around the country have in the programme.
The expansion programme is well on track to achieve its target of 500 cadet units parading in schools across the UK by 2020. As at June 2016, 350 units were parading and on 4 October 2016 the Secretary of State announced the next wave of 25 new units in state schools which have been approved.
The list of 25 new schools which have been approved is as follows:
Arnold Hill Academy - Nottinghamshire
Askham Bryan College - North Yorkshire
Bedlingtonshire Community High School - Northumberland
Bishop Challoner Girls School - London
Broadgreen International School - Liverpool
Cardinal Griffin Catholic College - Staffordshire
Carr Hill High School and Sixth Form Centre - Lancashire
Central Foundation Boys' School - London
Chichester Free School - Chichester
Ernest Bevin College - London
Gravesend Grammar School - Kent
Hugh Baird College - Merseyside
Khalsa Secondary Academy - Buckinghamshire
Kings Leadership Academy Liverpool - Liverpool
Medway UTC - Kent
Newton Rigg College - Cumbria
Nova Hreod Academy - Swindon
Quintin Kynaston Academy - London
Rockwood Academy - Birmingham
South Shields Community School - Tyne and Wear
South Wiltshire UTC - Salisbury
St Thomas More Catholic School - Tyne and Wear
The JCB Academy - Staffordshire
Tudor Grange Samworth Academy - Leicestershire
West Midlands Construction UTC - Wolverhampton
Asked by: William Wragg (Independent - Hazel Grove)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library copies of all letters, leaflets and other material from his Department circulated to (a) stakeholders and (b) members of the public on the EU Referendum; what the costs of the production and distribution of that material has been since 1 January 2016; and what he estimates the cost of any further production and distribution of such material will be between 6 May 2016 and 23 June 2016.
Answered by Michael Fallon
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 8 June 2016 by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office (John Penrose) to Question 38811.