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Written Question
Catterick Garrison
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel were based at Piave and Bapaume Barracks as of 29 April 2024.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

As at 1 January 2024, there were 120 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Piave and Bapaume Barracks.

Please note the following caveats:

  1. The number of UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Piave and Bapaume Barracks can only be provided as at 1 January 2024 in line with Published National Statistics.
  2. This figure comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes both trained and untrained personnel.
  3. The figure is based on Service personnel’s stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work is not necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
  4. Figures containing Reserve personnel are estimates because the station location data for Reserves has not been fully verified.
  5. The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10 to prevent inadvertent disclosure of personal identities. However, numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.

Written Question
Catterick Garrison
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel were based at Cambrai Barracks as of 29 April 2024.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

As at 1 January 2024, there were 500 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Cambrai Barracks.

Please note the following caveats:

  1. The number of UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Cambrai Barracks can only be provided as at 1 January 2024 in line with Published National Statistics.
  2. This figure comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes both trained and untrained personnel.
  3. The figure is based on Service personnel’s stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work is not necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
  4. Figures containing Reserve personnel are estimates because the station location data for Reserves has not been fully verified.
  5. The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10 to prevent inadvertent disclosure of personal identities. However, numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.

Written Question
Catterick Garrison
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel were based at Vimy Barracks as of 29 April 2024.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

As at 1 January 2024, there were 1,170 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Vimy Barracks.

Please note the following caveats:

  1. The number of UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Vimy Barracks can only be provided as at 1 January 2024 in line with Published National Statistics.
  2. This figure comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes both trained and untrained personnel.
  3. The figure is based on Service personnel’s stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work is not necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
  4. Figures containing Reserve personnel are estimates because the station location data for Reserves has not been fully verified.
  5. The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10 to prevent inadvertent disclosure of personal identities. However, numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.

Written Question
Catterick Garrison
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel were based at Alma Barracks as of 29 April 2024.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

As at 1 January 2024, there were 580 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Alma Barracks.

Please note the following caveats:

  1. The number of UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Alma Barracks can only be provided as at 1 January 2024 in line with Published National Statistics.
  2. This figure comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes both trained and untrained personnel.
  3. The figure is based on Service personnel’s stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work is not necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
  4. Figures containing Reserve personnel are estimates because the station location data for Reserves has not been fully verified.
  5. The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10 to prevent inadvertent disclosure of personal identities. However, numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.

Written Question
RNAD Coulport
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Royal Naval Armaments Depot in Coulport.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

The recorded number of personnel based at Royal Naval Armaments Depot in Coulport is contained within the total figure for the number of service personnel based at His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde.

Therefore, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for Defence procurement (James Cartlidge) on 2 May 2024 to Question 23570.

Written Question
Army Foundation College: Staff
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Sarah Atherton (Conservative - Wrexham)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many staff at the Army Foundation College were found to have started (a) intimate and (b) otherwise inappropriate relationships with recruits in each year since 2014.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

Sexual relationships between instructors and trainees have no place in Defence, or wider society, and the MOD’s zero tolerance approach ensures our commitment to providing a better working environment for our Serving personnel is met.

Fewer than ten staff at Army Foundation College Harrogate were found to have had inappropriate relationships with recruits since 2014. Due to the very small number, this will not be broken down further.

  1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest ten. Rounding is used to preserve anonymity.
  2. JPA is a live system which is updated for retrospective complaints/allegations and therefore data can be subject to change.
  3. These figures are single Service estimates only and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.
  4. There is no defined criteria for ‘intimate relationships’ or for ‘otherwise inappropriate relationships’. The figure above is based on a search for cases where there was found to have been an abuse of a position of trust at AFC Harrogate which had a sexual nature to it.

Written Question
Army: Prostitution
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many incidents of British soldiers paying for sex in Kenya have been (a) investigated and (b) proven since the introduction of JSP 769: Zero tolerance to sexual exploitation and abuse in July 2022.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

There have been three investigations since July 2022 related to Service personnel's suspected engagement in transactional sex in Kenya. Each of which resulted in "no case to answer".

Written Question
Defence: Finance
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of GDP will be spent on defence in each financial year between now and 2030.

Answered by Earl of Minto - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

As detailed in Annex A of the Government’s publication “Defending Britain: leading in a more dangerous world”, the UK’s qualifying defence spend as a percentage of GDP up to 2030-31 is below.

2024-25

2025-26

2026-27

2027-28

2028-29

2029-30

2030-31

% of GDP

2.32

2.35

2.38

2.41

2.44

2.47

2.5

Written Question
Army Foundation College: Sexual Offences
Thursday 9th May 2024

Asked by: Sarah Atherton (Conservative - Wrexham)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of charges of (a) rape and (b) other sexual offences against people working at the Army Foundation College that were brought to trial at court-martial resulted in conviction in each of the last five years.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

The tables below show the number and proportion of charges at Court Martial of rape and other sexual offences involving people working at Army Foundation College Harrogate which resulted in a conviction.

Rape

Number of Convictions

% of Convictions

2019 (7 May onwards)

0

0

2020

0

0

2021

0

0

2022

0

0

2023

1

100%

2024 (to 7 May)

0

0

Other Sexual Offences

Number of Convictions

% of Convictions

2019 (7 May onwards)

0

0

2020

0

0

2021

0

0

2022

0

0

2023

2

16.7%

2024 (to 7 May)

2

100%

Caveats:

1. JPA is a live system which is updated for retrospective complaints/allegations and therefore, data can be subject to change.

2. These figures are single service estimates only and are not official statistics produced by Defence Statistics.

3. The data represents the number of charges; it may be that more than one charge has been brought against the same person.

4. Table two shows the number of other sexual offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 or its historical equivalent.

5. People working at AFC Harrogate does not include recruits.

6. The % columns detail the proportion of convictions in relation to charges at Court Martial.


Written Question
Helles Barracks
Wednesday 8th May 2024

Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many service personnel are based at Helles Barracks as of 29 April 2024.

Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)

As at 1 January 2024, there were 850 UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Helles Barracks.

Please note the following caveats:

  1. The number of UK Armed Forces Service personnel stationed at Helles Barracks can only be provided as at 1 January 2024 in line with Published National Statistics.
  2. This figure comprises UK Regular Forces, Gurkhas, Military Provost Guard Service (MPGS), Locally Engaged Personnel (LEP), Volunteer Reserve, Serving Regular Reserve, Sponsored Reserve and Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS) of unknown origin. University Officer Cadets are excluded. The figure includes both trained and untrained personnel.
  3. The figure is based on Service personnel’s stationed location and not their location of residence – where personnel work is not necessarily where they live. Personnel deployed on operations to an area away from their stationed location are shown against their most recent stationed location.
  4. Figures containing Reserve personnel are estimates because the station location data for Reserves has not been fully verified.
  5. The figure has been rounded to the nearest 10 to prevent inadvertent disclosure of personal identities. However, numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest 20 to prevent systematic bias.