Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in Antartica since 2019.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 22 environmental projects of benefit to the Falkland Islands. These are listed in the table below.
Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.
Project reference | Project title | UK Overseas Territories involved |
DPLUS146 | Red Listing can protect OT marine biodiversity | British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
DPLUS110 | Recognise, protect, restore: driving sound stewardship of Falklands peat wetlands | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS115 | Unlocking Falkland Islands Marine Management: Key Biodiversity Areas for seabirds | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS116 | Falklands wetlands and aquatic habitats: baselines for monitoring future change | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS126 | Advancing Falklands and region-scale management of globally important whale populations | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS139 | Improving Falklands marine management effectiveness for marine higher predators | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS148 | Climate change resilience in Falkland Islands fisheries and marine ecosystems | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS167 | Pathogens as a threat to seabirds in the Falkland Islands | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS168 | Understanding increased FI seal bycatch to inform bycatch Action Plan | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS169 | New Island: completing preparatory steps for restoration against invasive mammals | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS182 | Habitat restoration and species re-introductions on four Falklands island reserves | Falkland Islands |
DPL00047 | Increasing environmental monitoring capacity on FI: a Thermal Imaging UAV | Falkland Islands |
DPL00058 | Fire Contingency Planning for Offshore Islands | Falkland Islands |
CV19RR02 | Establishing wildlife health and disease monitoring in the Falkland Islands | Falkland Islands |
DPL00002 | Restoring native tussac grassland habitat | Falkland Islands |
DPL00006 | Restoring peat soils and tussac grass habitat in the Falklands | Falkland Islands |
DPL00020 | Data driven solutions to land management and climate change adaptation | Falkland Islands |
DPL00025 | Building farm biodiversity planning and monitoring capacity for sustainable management | Falkland Islands |
DPLUS092 | Seabird sentinels: mapping potential bycatch risk using bird-borne radar | Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
DPLUS094 | Developing Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) tools for Turks and Caicos | Falkland Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands |
DPLUS175 | Enhancing monitoring and prevention of invasive non-native species across UKOTs | Gibraltar, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (on Cyprus), South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bermuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands |
DPLUS174 | A cross-UKOT camera network to enhance marine predator conservation | Montserrat, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
Asked by: Matthew Offord (Conservative - Hendon)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what environmental projects have been funded through Darwin Plus in the Falkland Islands since 2019.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Since 2019, Darwin Plus has funded 6 environmental projects of benefit to the British Antarctic Territory. These are listed in the table below.
Please visit the Darwin Plus website at https://darwinplus.org.uk/ for full details of funded projects.
Project reference | Project title | UK Overseas Territories involved |
DPLUS185 | Safeguarding Antarctic krill stocks for baleen whales | British Antarctic Territory |
DPL00008 | Biodiversity Survey and Environmental Management Plan in Antarctica | British Antarctic Territory (BAT) |
DPLUS146 | Red Listing can protect OT marine biodiversity | British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
DPLUS166 | Improving identification of fish bycatch in the Antarctic krill fishery | British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
DPLUS175 | Enhancing monitoring and prevention of invasive non-native species across UKOTs | Gibraltar, Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (on Cyprus), South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, Bermuda, Anguilla, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands |
DPLUS174 | A cross-UKOT camera network to enhance marine predator conservation | Montserrat, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands |
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on the number of Greek troops that are stationed in southern Cyprus; and whether any personnel from the Greek (a) military and (b) intelligence community are hosted in the sovereign base areas of (i) Akrotiri and (ii) Dhekelia.
Answered by James Heappey
Further to the written answers to Questions 8179, 80904, and 80905, we do not propose to release details of any non-UK personnel participating in current or future operational activities in the Sovereign Base Areas. We do not hold information regarding the size of any Greek deployment in the Republic of Cyprus, this would be a matter for the Hellenic Armed Forces. We do not comment on intelligence matters.
Asked by: Stephen Doughty (Labour (Co-op) - Cardiff South and Penarth)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) progress towards (i) a lasting resolution of the Cyprus issue and (ii) the agreement of a bizonal, bicommunal federation with political equality and (b) adherence to UN Security Council resolutions.
Answered by Leo Docherty - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for the Armed Forces)
The UK is committed to supporting the UN-led process to reach a Cyprus Settlement. We continue to believe that the existing UN parameters of a Bi-zonal, Bi-communal Federation with political equality are sufficiently flexible to facilitate an agreement which addresses the priorities of both sides. The appointment of Ms Holguín as the UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy on Cyprus is an important step and we welcome her engagement so far. In January, the UK led the drafting of a UN Security Council Resolution which reaffirmed existing resolutions and called upon the leaders to improve implementation where appropriate.
Asked by: Sammy Wilson (Democratic Unionist Party - East Antrim)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department plans to produce a trade and investment factsheet for trade with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
In accordance with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" as an independent state. UK trade statistics from the Office for National Statistics, which provide most of the headline information shown in the trade and investment factsheets, do not include figures identifying UK trade with the north of Cyprus . It is therefore not possible to produce a separate trade and investment factsheet.
Asked by: Sarah Jones (Labour - Croydon Central)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much military equipment of each equipment type has been (a) lost and (b) stolen in each year since 2015.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
The Ministry of Defence has historically responded to Freedom of Information Requests (FOIs), answering the following three questions:
1. How many weapons (by type) and explosive munitions for which the Department has responsibility have been recorded as (a) lost and (b) stolen in [year]?
2. Please provide a list of all stolen items, value and location of the theft of all items that were recorded stolen in the [year] calendar year.
3. How many department computers, laptops, memory sticks were lost/stolen by month since January [year]?”
The responses have included military equipment reported lost/stolen in addition to other items but are limited to only those cases reported to the centralised reporting functions concerned with Security and Fraud/Theft, Bribery and Corruption.
The following are the links to those years that the published FOI requests can be located on GOV.UK:
FOI | Data Year | Link |
FOI2018/03191 | 2017 | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5b89127ae5274a3cc44ba296/2018-03191.pdf |
FOI2019/03318 | 2018 | |
FOI2020/02137 | 2019 | |
FOI2021/01721 | 2020 | |
FOI2022/02198 | 2021 | |
FOI2023/02522 | 2022 |
FOI requests were also responded to for calendar years 2015 and 2016 but the publication links are unavailable. The detail provided in those responses is therefore set out below:
FOI2016/02451 (data for 2015)
Weapons (by type):
Lost: 0
Stolen: 5 (1 x small arm (de-activated); 4 x Automatic weapons (3 de-activated))
Explosive munitions (interpreted as Ammunition):
Lost: 4086
Stolen: 2080
The table shows how many computers, laptops, memory sticks have been recorded in the MOD security incident management database as lost/stolen by month since Jan 11
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Jan | 11 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
Feb | 11 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 8 |
Mar | 19 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 19 |
Apr | 7 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 9 |
May | 17 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 8 |
Jun | 7 | 5 | 24 | 7 | 704* |
Jul | 5 | 29 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
Aug | 8 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 10 |
Sep | 20 | 7 | 8 | 298* | 3 |
Oct | 7 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 5 |
Nov | 13 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 17 |
Dec | 12 | 12 | 70 | 0 | 20 |
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All stolen items from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2015 (Confidential Hotline data)
Items stolen | Location | Alleged Offence Value where recorded | Items recovered or partial recovery |
4 X Magazines | Oxfordshire | £0 | No |
Bike | Chatham | £625 | No |
Military eqpt | Warminster | £0 | Yes |
compass, binoculars | Larkhill | £0 | No |
money | South Cerney, Gloucs | £410 | No |
19 vehicle tools | Monmouth | £769 | No |
day sack, boots | Bulford | £0 | No |
MFO box and contents | Catterick | £0 | No |
Multimeter | HMS Illustrious | £106 | No |
Multimeter | HMS Illustrious | £106 | No |
Body armour, sleeping bag, smock | Wimbish | £812 | No |
Chainsaw | Aldershot | £0 | No |
43 x transceivers | Taunton | £24,247 | No |
Webbing | Gloucester | £300 | No |
boots, vacuum | RAF Halton | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Tidworth | £0 | No |
helmet, webbing | Germany | £0 | No |
artefacts | Dover | £0 | No |
sat nav | Blandford | £96 | No |
Military eqpt | Bulford | £0 | No |
gym eqpt | Bulford | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Bulford | £0 | No |
welder, sand shot blaster, electric saw, electric drills, aluminium sheet metal | Bovington | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Tidworth | £0 | No |
respirator | Tidworth | £0 | No |
projector | Sierra Leone | £450 | No |
Military eqpt | Wiltshire | £9,500 | No |
day sack, night vision system, body armour, helmet, various items of deployable tactical engagement simulation kit | Kenya | £0 | No |
Climbing eqpt | RAF Valley | £12,000 | No |
toolkit | Tidworth | £797 | No |
insulation test kit, oil | HMS Illustrious | £0 | No |
helmet mounting bracket | eBay | £0 | No |
weapon sight | Lisburn, NI | £1,812 | No |
adaptor | Tidworth | £1,170 | No |
2 x chainsaw, PPE eqpt | Tidworth | £1,773 | No |
money | Germany | £0 | No |
2 x washing machines | Innsworth | £416 | No |
bearskin, respirator, drum sling, regimental crest, medal bar | eBay | £856 | No |
clothing, bearskin, sword | Windsor | £0 | No |
welding eqpt | Colchester | £573 | No |
hydraulic fluid level indicator | eBay | £0 | No |
weapon sight, bi pod downgrip | Germany | £0 | No |
Diagnostic kit, retaining ring pliers, riveter, extractor screw set, brake adaptor, spanner wrench, socket wrench, 2 x mechanical puller, machinist vice, socket wrench set, impact wrench, thread insert kit, 2 x threading set, compression tester set, optical battery tester, liquid measure | Canada | £9,494 | No |
Military eqpt | Tidworth | £1,500 | No |
land rover, spare tyres | Warminster | £0 | No |
toolbox | Canada | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Bulford | £3,258 | No |
Military eqpt | Larkhill | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Tidworth | £0 | No |
bike | Bulford | £950 | No |
tools | Tidworth | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Bulford | £0 | No |
tools | Germany | £0 | No |
day sack | Catterick | £170 | No |
2 x sleeping bags, jacket, trousers, helmet | Morocco | £337 | No |
2 x smock, poncho, sleeping bag | Colchester | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Catterick | £0 | No |
bivie bag, jacket | Colchester | £0 | No |
boots, webbing | Colchester | £299 | No |
2 x screwdriver, bar extension, tool bag | Cottesmore | £0 | No |
toolbox and tools | Wattisham | £0 | No |
Military eqpt, clothing | Larkhill | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | Larkhill | £0 | No |
generator | Larkhill | £1,000 | No |
Xbox | Warminster | £400 | No |
Military eqpt, clothing | Larkhill | £1,030 | No |
Military eqpt | Winterbourne Gunner | £0 | No |
fuel | Bulford | £0 | No |
4 x lightweight chemical agent detectors | eBay | £180 | Yes |
helmet, 2 x respirator filter, field pack | Bulford | £301 | No |
5 x magazines | Afghanistan | £75 | No |
sleeping bag, sleeping mat, side pouch, rucksack, compression sack, sleeping bag cover, long back rucksack | Aldershot | £0 | No |
laminator | Catterick | £0 | No |
Military eqpt | eBay | £0 | No |
10 x 12-hour ration packs | eBay | £4,000 | Yes |
Blackberry | Innsworth | £0 | No |
fridge | HMS Collingwood | £294 | No |
webbing, helmet, jacket, smock, shirt, boots, thermal jacket, bergen, trousers, sleeping bag, exercise kit | Colerne | £435 | No |
technogym run 700, 3 x treadmill, 2 x static bike, 2 x X stepper, cross trainer, 2 x exercise bike, 2 x race bike, 2 x cycle gym machine | Catterick | £18,202 | No |
Landrover, 6 x machine bolt, 3 x carrier clamp, 3 x pneumatic wheel, 3 x pneumatic vehicle tyre, 3 x bracket, 3 x tyre valve extension | Wiltshire | £108,503 | No |
meat | Worthy Down | £0 | No |
2 x training defibrillators | HMS Excellent | £615 | No |
3 x binoculars, 3 x club batons | Bulford | £621 | No |
vacuum | Blandford | £89 | No |
2 x drill | RAF Leeming | £180 | No |
night vision system, night image intensifier | Kenya | £6,978 | No |
Military clothing | Armagh | £9,918 | No |
helmet, radio | eBay | £0 | No |
money | Germany | £2,144 | No |
Military eqpt | Tidworth | £0 | No |
picture, flag, clock | Chippenham | £70 | No |
30 x ink cartridge | HMS Vengeance | £8,660 | No |
boots, daysack | Stafford | £300 | No |
various medals | London | £0 | No |
night vision system | Pirbright | £4,500 | No |
12 x vehicle batteries | Abingdon, Oxfordshire | £2,376 | No |
military eqpt | Afghanistan | £0 | No |
camelbak, jet boil, poncho, jumper, tent pegs, respirator, respirator haversack, bungee's, canoe sacks, headover, jacket | Germany | £255 | No |
respirator | Cyprus | £0 | No |
laptop power pack and cable | Cyprus | £42 | No |
83 pieces of vehicle toolkit | Germany | £0 | No |
9 x Landrover spare wheels | Kenya | £0 | No |
stationery items | RAF Marham | £0 | No |
2 x off road tyres | Kenya | £0 | No |
travel docs, 4 x magazine, bottle, 2 x simulation vest, 3 x daysacks, night vision sight, helmet | Kenya | £326 | No |
laptop | Bulford | £0 | No |
9 x Landrover parts | Kenya | £950 | No |
night vision system | Kenya | £2,500 | No |
projector | RAF Brize Norton | £200 | No |
alcohol | Chippenham | £0 | No |
freight containing tools | RAF Brize Norton | £10,000 | No |
3 x indoor footballs | RAF High Wycombe | £30 | No |
2 x brown leather armchairs | Odiham | £880 | No |
drill | Odiham | £50 | No |
fuel | RAF Coningsby | £0 | No |
sat nav, watch, bergen, compass, boots, map | RAF Wittering | £250 | No |
body armour | RAF Leuchars | £0 | No |
day sack | RAF Waddington | £0 | No |
money | Perham Down | £520 | No |
Day sack, containing military eqpt | Larkhill | £0 | No |
projector | Tidworth | £0 | No |
iPad4 | Germany | £450 | No |
2 x HM forces railcards | Aldershot | £30 | No |
bike | Germany | £500 | No |
Personal load carrying eqpt | Germany | £0 | No |
Personal load carrying eqpt | Germany | £0 | No |
2 x bike | Aldershot | £260 | No |
docking station | Germany | £89 | No |
fuel | Larkhill | £183 | No |
night vision system | Canada | £1,911 | No |
diving eqpt | RMA Sandhurst | £1,022 | No |
digital camera | Afghanistan | £285 | No |
helmet | Germany | £209 | No |
2 x jacket | Strensall | £189 | No |
TV | Thatcham | £329 | No |
2 x TV | Germany | £0 | No |
3 x Night vision systems | Cyprus | £7,500 | No |
fuel | Preston | £127 | No |
2 x vacuum | RAF Wyton | £178 | No |
Medals | EBay | £0 | No |
night vision goggles | HMS Excellent | £0 | Yes |
ration packs | Catterick | £0 | Yes |
ration packs | EBay | £0 | No |
night vision system | Germany | £2,500 | No |
strimmer, car buffer | Germany | £315 | No |
Dell Base unit | Abingdon, Oxfordshire | £375 | No |
amazon voucher | Andover | £10 | No |
TV | Cirencester | £439 | No |
minibus | London | £11,177 | No |
tent, 3 x chair, 6 x camouflage net, 112 x tent liner tensioner | York | £2,734 | No |
4 x generator | Thorney Island | £10,000 | No |
respirator, field pack | Germany | £110 | No |
gym weights | RAF Valley | £294 | No |
generator | RAF Valley | £720 | No |
dummy rifle trg aid | RMA Sandhurst | £171 | No |
rowing machine | Torpoint | £1,350 | No |
mobile phone | Lisburn, NI | £85 | No |
diving eqpt | Bahrain | £50,243 | No |
night vision system | Pirbright | £2,500 | No |
clarinet | HMS Raleigh | £1,909 | No |
thermal sight | York | £15,556 | No |
2 x Laser light modules | Woolwich | £1,824 | No |
bike | Bulford | £321 | No |
FOI2017/03293 (data for 2016)
Small Arms (Interpreted as the category type of weapons)
Total reported as unaccounted for: 14 (lost and stolen)
Explosive Munitions (interpreted as ammunition)
Total reported as unaccounted for: 82877 (lost and stolen)
Using the incident types of ‘Loss’ and ‘Theft’ the table shows how many computers, laptops, memory sticks have been recorded in the MOD security incident management database as lost/stolen by month since Jan 16
Source - ISS Defence Assurance and Information Security (DAIS)
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Computers |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Laptops | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Memory Sticks | 1 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
All items centrally reported stolen in the 2016 calendar year source - Fraud Defence (Confidential Hotline)
Items stolen | Location | Alleged Offence Value where recorded | Items recovered or partial recovery |
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19 x boxes of printer toners | Blandford | £1,752 | No |
Military Eqpt | Catterick | £0 | No |
Grinder, Drill Port, 2 x Drill Hammer Port | Paderborn, Germany | £680 | No |
3 x Body Armour, Radiacmeter, Hunting knife, Torch, Stopwatch, Toolbox, Wiring harness, 10 x Multi tool. | HMNB Clyde | £2,334 | No |
2 x Cylinder assembly unit | HMNB Clyde | £602 | No |
Boots | Fareham | £150 | No |
Generator | Bury | £100 | No |
Diesel | Bournemouth | £0 | No |
ECBA | Kenya | £110 | No |
Night Vision System | Kenya | £2,251 | No |
Night vision system | Kenya | £3,240 | No |
Rucksack | Kenya | £195 | No |
Money | Plymouth | £200 | No |
Drum | Bulford | £1,175 | No |
68 x Skirting plates | Bovington Park | £19,328 | No |
Speaker | Kenya | £271 | No |
Transmitter set | Kenya | £8,490 | No |
Cordless jigsaw, Cordless drill | HMNB Devenport | £619 | No |
Sight Kit | Belfast | £150 | No |
Fuel | Ewyas Harold | £0 | No |
Swimming passes | Blandford | £500 | No |
Military Eqpt | Lulworth | £1,655 | No |
Ration packs | Pudsey | £0 | No |
TV | HMNB Portsmouth | £250 | No |
Night Vision goggles, Body Armour Plates, Head mounted Night Vision sights | Dyfed Powys | £0 | No |
Night Vision System | Tidworth | £2,500 | No |
TV | Hyde Park | £504 | No |
Clothing | Faslane | £0 | No |
Fuel | Holywood | £0 | No |
3 x bike | Tidworth | £1,620 | No |
Scrap metal | Leconfield | £0 | No |
Binoculars | Tidworth | £151 | No |
Collimator, 21 x Compass, 14 x Watch | Stafford | £4,537 | No |
Respirator, Field pack, 2 x Helmet, 2 x Filter | Abingdon | £230 | No |
3 x Storm case, 2 x Camera, 3 x Gopro Touch Bacpac, 3 x GoPro Battery Bacpac Hero, 3 x GoPro wall charger, 6 x GoPro cable, 3 x GoPro storage case, 1 x GoPro bobber | Corsham | £1,719 | No |
Compass, 4 x Magazine, Blank Firing attachment | Chester | £236 | No |
20 x plate protection, 30 x Body armour, 10 x helmet | Hohne Garrison, Germany | £4,944 | No |
Bike spinner | Hohne Garrison, Germany | £500 | No |
TV | Wrexham | £341 | No |
Replica weapon | Wolverhampton | £480 | No |
2 x Fuel key, Fuel | Colerne | £175 | No |
2 x Radio system, BMRC, Control Radio set, 4 x Battery | Kenya | £24882.06 | No |
2 x iPad | Aldershot | £187 | No |
Pressure washer | Arbroath | £107 | No |
Fan heater | Anglesey | £288 | No |
TV | Anglesey | £350 | No |
Vacuum Cleaner | Anglesey | £117 | No |
Rucksack | Anglesey | £0 | No |
2 x vehicle | Sleaford | £51,600 | partial recovery |
4 x Binocular, 4 x Compass, 4 x Case | Larkhill | £1,153 | No |
2 x Hoover Bags | Marchwood | £18 | No |
Sat Nav | Wrexham | £135 | No |
3 x generator, Fuel, 3 x cable, 3 x GLS light | Warminster | £26,939 | No |
Toolkit | Hounslow | £654 | No |
Work bench | Warminster | £950 | No |
Fuel | Salisbury | £1,694 | No |
Fuel | Salisbury | £1,042 | No |
2 x 5.56mm rounds | Abingdon | £0 | No |
Boots | Aldershot | £0 | No |
Steam cleaner | Oxford | £1,703 | No |
2 x Power pack, 3 x Mechanics creeper, Wiring harness, 3 x Wrench, Screw set, 2 x Drill, Toolkit, Balance Spring | Alberta, Canada | £2,838 | No |
2 x telescopic ladder | Arbroath | £190 | No |
3 x Aircraft container, 3 x Folding cot, 4 x Chair, 23 x Water can, 14 x Helmet | Arbroath | £2,545 | No |
Parachute system | Cambridge | £90 | No |
Money | Gosport | £350 | No |
Night Vision System, Transmitter, single switch | Chester | £3,147 | No |
6 x Exercise bike | Catterick | £13,380 | No |
Webbing, Water bottle, mug, 2 x mess tin | Croydon | £90 | No |
Helmet, Waterproof jacket, Waterproof trousers | Croydon | £270 | No |
TV | Helston | £499 | No |
Generator | Monkton | £1,000 | No |
Clothing | Arbroath | £230 | No |
Document | Ebay | £0 | No |
Body armour | Scotland | £504 | No |
TRX kit | Cranwell | £656 | No |
Fan heater | Cranwell | £218 | No |
2 x Fan heater | Cranwell | £436 | No |
Night vision system | Catterick | £2,490 | No |
Bike trailer, Kayak | Inverness | £839 | No |
2 x night vision system, Weapon sight | Cotesmore | £7,080 | No |
Fuel | Gibraltar | £50,000 | No |
Fuel | Holywood | £106 | No |
2 x Helmet, Body armour, Webbing , Daysack | Chester | £994 | No |
Body Armour | Catterick | £109 | No |
2 x Fuel card | Fareham | £0 | No |
Med Ball, Kettleball | York | £70 | No |
5 x ancillary item | Portsmouth | £0 | No |
2 x Camp bed | Ebay | £98 | No |
1 x Helmet | London | £1,641 | No |
Respirator | Scampton | £129 | No |
Thermal Imager | Newcastle Upon Tyne | £7,848 | No |
Exercise bike | Reading | £2,250 | No |
Money | Portsmouth | £20 | Yes |
Money | South Ruislip | £311 | No |
7x Field pack | Plymouth | £707 | No |
Missile Epack | Corsham | £0 | No |
Laptop | Waddington | £500 | No |
Projector | Wattisham | £274 | No |
2 x Body Armour | Wattisham | £164 | No |
Clothing | Anglesey | £80 | No |
iPad | Salisbury | £399 | No |
72 x Battery Storage, Laptop | Kenya | £17,169 | No |
Money | Kenya | £13,333 | No |
Money | Kenya | £1,364 | No |
4 x Disc clutch | Kenya | £237 | No |
Vehicle component | Colchester | £798 | No |
Sim card | Taunton | £518 | No |
2 x computer monitors | Wolverhampton | £166 | No |
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The most recent FOI request responded to in December 2023 has yet to be published on GOV.UK. The detail provided is set out below:
FOI2023/13989 (data for 2023 – up to 02/11/2023)
For 01/01/2023 – 02/11/2023 I can confirm the following:
1. Weapons – lost / stolen: Source - Defence Security
Weapons: Type | Quantity | Lost/Stolen |
Deactivated WWII Sten Gun SMG (on display in Mess) | 1 | Lost |
Deactivated WWII Luger Pistol (on display in Mess) |
| Lost |
SA80 Rifle (lost on a training area) |
| Lost & Found |
Deactivated WWI German Machine Gun (lost on display outside Mess |
| Lost & Found |
Explosive Munitions: Type | Quantity | Lost/Stolen |
5.56mm | 84 | Lost |
7.62mm | 145 | Lost |
9mm | 47 | Lost |
4.6mm | 0 | Lost |
12.7mm | 0 | Lost |
Source - ISS Defence Assurance and Information Security (DAIS)
Month | Computers | Laptops | USBs |
Jan - 2023 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
Feb - 2023 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Mar - 2023 | 0 | 38 | 2 |
Apr - 2023 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
May - 2023 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Jun - 2023 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
Jul - 2023 | 0 | 9 | 6 |
Aug - 2023 | 0 | 51 | 3 |
Sep - 2023 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
Oct - 2023 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Nov (Up to 2nd Nov) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 0 | 169 | 22 |
All items centrally reported stolen in the 2023 calendar year (up to 02/11/2023)
Source: Fraud Defence
Items stolen | Location | Alleged offence value where recorded | Items recovered |
Body Armour, Helmet | Yeovilton | £0 | No |
Helmet | Yeovilton | £0 | No |
Respirator, Body Armour, Helmet | Yeovilton | £0 | No |
Helmet | Not Known | £450 | No |
Helmet | Devon | £0 | No |
Body Armour, Helmet | Yeovilton | £0 | No |
Helmet | Yeovilton | £0 | No |
WATT bike trainer monitor | Birmingham | £0 | No |
Bergen, Respirator, Helmet, Webbing, Scalable vest | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
12 x Jerry cans of Diesel | Larkhill Camp | £0 | No |
Helmet | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
2 x silver ornaments | Blandford Camp | £0 | No |
Scalable vest | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Cash | Swinton Barracks | £112 | No |
Helmet, Scalable vest, Laptop | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Bike | Larkhill Camp | £0 | No |
65 x tools | MOD Lyneham | £0 | No |
Laptop | Yeovilton | £54.69 | No |
Helmet | Buckley Barracks | £0 | No |
9 x laptops, 2 x docking stations, 2 x handheld device batteries, 2 x printer | in transit between Kenya and Brize Norton | £21426.68 | No |
4 x Ear defenders | Tidworth Garrison | £4400 | No |
2 x laser range finders | HMNB Devonport | £359.98 | No |
Daysack, laptop, vehicle keys, webbing, helmet, jacket, bivi bag, poncho | Kenya | £2000 | No |
Military issued equipment | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
Helmet | Catterick Garrison | £0 | No |
Webbing, Scalable Vest | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Daysack | Tidworth Garrison | £58 | No |
Helmet | Gloucestershire | £370 | No |
Helmet | Maidstone | £0 | No |
Webbing, scalable vest, helmet, bag | Not Known | £0 | No |
Mandible, webbing, daysack | Tidworth Garrison | £1535 | No |
Scalable vest | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Respirator | Thiepval Barracks | £102.91 | No |
TV | Chester | £1 | No |
2 x Daysacks, 12 x initiator safety fuses, safety fuse | Kenya | £187.69 | No |
Respirator, filter | Bristol | £98.23 | No |
Helmet | Texas, USA | £339.85 | No |
Fuel | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Tools | Tidworth Garrison | £2184.51 | No |
Body Armour | Germany | £0 | No |
Respirator | Swinton Barracks | £0 | No |
2 x X-Box controllers | Fife | £0 | No |
Gas detector, Helmet, endoscope camera | HMNB Portsmouth | £0 | No |
5 x Land Rover Tyre rims | Middle Wallop | £1135 | No |
Helmet, Daysack | Bassingbourn Barracks | £0 | No |
SA80 Rifle, 30 x Blank rounds, Laser Light Module, Lightweight Day sight | Kenya | £0 | Yes |
Helmet, Body Armour | Catterick Garrison | £0 | No |
Outboard motor, 2 x Propeller | HMNB Devonport | £3440.47 | No |
Vest, Helmet, Respirator | In transit between Oman and Middle Wallop | £544.19 | No |
iPad Pro21, Cash | Bicester | £1500 | No |
Military equipment | not Known | £0 | No |
Office supplies | Kenya | £0 | No |
3 x Bergens, Compass | Edinburgh | £0 | No |
Air Fryer | Penicuik | £0 | No |
Helmet | Yeovilton | £347.50 | No |
Gym equipment | Cottesmore | £0 | No |
Helmet | Bovington Camp | £58.95 | No |
Scalable vest | Bovington Camp | £0 | No |
Helmet, respirator, scalable vest | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Scalable vest, Nape protections, Respirator filters | Pirbright | £0 | No |
Fridge | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
6 x Medals, 6 x miniature medals | Cirencester | £0 | No |
4 x Bowman cable assemblies | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
2 x dDrills | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
Helmet | Bovington Camp | £0 | No |
Scalable vest, helmet, respirator | Haverfordwest | £0 | No |
Helmet, emergency release strap | Swinton Barracks | £0 | No |
Tools | Kenya | £0 | No |
Canbus terminator | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Ear defenders | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
White goods | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
2 x 9mm drill rounds | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
4 x torque wrench, sliding tee bar | HMS Bulwark | £0 | No |
Tool kit | HMNB Devonport | £1111.28 | No |
iPad mini | Catterick Garrison | £329 | No |
Mobile Phone | Holywood, NI | £190 | No |
Bike | Gloucestershire | £0 | No |
toolbox | York | £600.87 | No |
Decommissioned Baker Rifle | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
Bergen several items | Buckley Barracks | £0 | No |
Bike | Bulford Camp | £0 | No |
2 x Generator airlines | Swinton Barracks | £0 | No |
1 x decommissioned Heavy Machine Gun | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
Daysack, laptop charger | Normandy Barracks | £0 | No |
Tools | HMS Bulwark | £0 | No |
Binoculars | Catterick Garrison | £233.34 | No |
Exercise equipment | Catterick Garrison | £0 | No |
Respirator, boots | Catterick Garrison | £0 | No |
Under Body Armour Combat shirt and Trousers | Pirbright | £0 | No |
Tumble dryer | Tidworth Garrison | £300 | No |
Helmet, shoulder pads | Tidworth Garrison | £0 | No |
TV | Gloucestershire | £0 | No |
Powerbank | HMNB Clyde | £950 | No |
The status of the items provided in the FOI responses were correct at the point of responding to the FOIs where items may have since been recovered and accounted for.
Asked by: Lord Rogan (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they intend to review official travel advice for UK nationals visiting the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
In accordance with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" as an independent state. The UK recognises the Republic of Cyprus as the sovereign authority of Cyprus. We regularly review official travel advice for UK nationals travelling abroad, including to the Republic of Cyprus.
Asked by: Lord Rogan (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many British expats currently reside in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; and by how many this number has increased since 2004.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
In accordance with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" as an independent state. The UK recognises the Republic of Cyprus as the sovereign authority of Cyprus. Approximately 30,000 British Nationals reside in Cyprus, of which we estimate that 10,000-15,000 are based in the north of the island. We do not monitor year on year changes in the number of British Nationals residing in the north of Cyprus.
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help prevent regional conflict following strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We continue to work with our allies and partners to safeguard maritime security and navigation rights and freedoms in the Red Sea.
The Foreign Secretary has discussed developments in the Red Sea with key interlocutors from Saudi Arabia (14 December), United Arab Emirates (16 December & 12 January), Egypt (20 December), Iran (31 December and 17 January), Oman (31 December and 14 January), United States (2 January), the Palestinian Authority (5 January), Italy (8 January), Cyprus (12 and 24 January), Turkey (12 January), Saudi Arabia ( 17 January), Government of Yemen (17 January), United States (17 January), UN Secretary General (17 January), Poland (17 January), Sweden (21 January) and Greece (21 January). He also sent messages to United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on 23 January providing an update on the 22 January strikes.
The UK, alongside international partners, condemned the Houthi attacks through a series of ministerial statements. This included a 1 December United Nations Security Council statement, a 19 December US led statement with 43 signatories, a 3 January statement clearly stating that continued attacks would have consequences, a 12 January statement after the first strikes signed by 10 countries and a 23 January statement after the second strikes signed by 24 countries. On 10 January the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 2722 affirming freedom of navigation and noting members states' right to defend their vessels.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Garston and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK personnel have served in UN peacekeeping missions in each year since 2019.
Answered by James Heappey
Since 2019, the UK has contributed to the following UN Peacekeeping missions: MINUSMA (Mali), MONUSCO(DRC), UNFICYP(Cyprus), UNIFIL(Lebanon), UNMISS (South Sudan), UNSMIL(Libya), UNSOM(Somalia).
The total number of UK personnel who have served on these missions in each year since 2019 is outlined below.
2019: 2,284
2020: 1,115
2021: 1,844
2022: 1,978
2023: 1,211
The figures provided capture those directly employed on the UN Missions. Where the UK deployed at Unit level and above, the figures also include those who served as part of the National Support Element.
The figures do not include the UK troops training and mentoring partner forces in advance of their deployment on UN operations.