Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 1 February 2024 to Question 11912, how many local authority swimming pools have opened in each region in each year since 2015.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
245 local authority swimming pools have opened since 2015. The breakdown per region is as follows:
East Midlands: 27
Eastern: 21
London: 36
North East: 15
North West: 29
South East: 44
South West: 20
West Midlands: 28
Yorkshire and the Humber: 25
Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority leisure centres have closed by region in each year since 2015.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Government is clear on the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities. We have also confirmed an additional £60 million support package for swimming pools in 2023/24, which is targeted at addressing cost pressures facing public swimming pool providers and helping make facilities sustainable in the long-term.
276 local authority swimming pools have closed since 2015. The breakdown per year is as follows:
2015: 40
2016: 36
2017: 31
2018: 23
2019: 31
2020: 38
2021: 26
2022: 28
2023: 23
These numbers should be considered in the context of facility provision within the local area. Facilities may close for a number of reasons: this can include the rationalisation of multiple older facilities into a modern, better located facility. In the same period from 2015-2023, 245 local authority swimming pools opened.
Data is stored by facility type (e.g. pool, health and fitness gym, or sports hall) rather than “leisure centre.” From 2015, approximately 261 local authority owned sites which had one or more pools, main halls, or health and fitness gyms, closed either fully or partially (where a facility within the site, including a pool or gym, may have closed). By region the figures are as follows:
East Midlands: 26
Eastern: 21
London: 26
North East: 29
North West:41
South East: 43
South West: 21
West Midlands: 29
Yorkshire and the Humber: 25
At the same time, new facilities were constructed at 242 comparable sites.
Asked by: Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat - North Shropshire)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many local authority swimming pools have closed in each year since 2015.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
The Government is clear on the importance of ensuring public access to swimming pools, as swimming is a great way for people of all ages to stay fit and healthy. The responsibility of providing this access lies at Local Authority level, and the Government continues to encourage Local Authorities to support swimming facilities. We have also confirmed an additional £60 million support package for swimming pools in 2023/24, which is targeted at addressing cost pressures facing public swimming pool providers and helping make facilities sustainable in the long-term.
276 local authority swimming pools have closed since 2015. The breakdown per year is as follows:
2015: 40
2016: 36
2017: 31
2018: 23
2019: 31
2020: 38
2021: 26
2022: 28
2023: 23
These numbers should be considered in the context of facility provision within the local area. Facilities may close for a number of reasons: this can include the rationalisation of multiple older facilities into a modern, better located facility. In the same period from 2015-2023, 245 local authority swimming pools opened.
Data is stored by facility type (e.g. pool, health and fitness gym, or sports hall) rather than “leisure centre.” From 2015, approximately 261 local authority owned sites which had one or more pools, main halls, or health and fitness gyms, closed either fully or partially (where a facility within the site, including a pool or gym, may have closed). By region the figures are as follows:
East Midlands: 26
Eastern: 21
London: 26
North East: 29
North West:41
South East: 43
South West: 21
West Midlands: 29
Yorkshire and the Humber: 25
At the same time, new facilities were constructed at 242 comparable sites.
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: Steve McCabe (Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of social prescribing; and whether her Department issues guidance on which models provide the most effective treatment.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
As a relatively new programme, the evidence base around nationally linked social prescribing is still evolving and robust quantitative evidence is limited. However, a growing body of work is suggestive of positive effects. The Department continues to work to understand the effectiveness of social prescribing to enhance physical and mental health and wellbeing, building on existing positive local evidence.
The Department of Health and Social Care works on the Green Social Prescribing programme established with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to increase the use and connection to the natural environment to tackle mental ill health. The Department of Health and Social Care funds the evaluation and research element including research studies into angling and outdoor swimming.
The Department funds via grant the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP). Their role is to support and promote social prescribing at a local and national level and develop the evidence base. A range of research into the effectiveness of social prescribing published by NASP is available at the following link:
https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/read-the-evidence/
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to provide financial support for (a) art, (b) music, (c) heritage, (d) sport and (e) other local cultural offerings.
Answered by Julia Lopez - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
His Majesty’s Government provides funding opportunities for arts, music, heritage, sports and other cultural organisations through a range of sources, including direct Government funding, through arm’s-length bodies like Arts Council England, and indirectly through local authority funding.
We have delivered significant support for heritage, including the High Street Heritage Action Zones, a heritage-led regeneration programme administered by Historic England. With a budget of £95 million, this programme focuses on fostering growth in historic high streets throughout England. HM Government also supports the upkeep of listed places of worship via the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme, which allocates up to £42 million per year. This scheme provides grants for the reimbursement of VAT incurred during the maintenance of the nation's listed churches. Arm’s-length bodies, like Historic England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, provide further support to the heritage sector through various grants, including the Repair Grants for Heritage at Risk programme..
We are committed to supporting the arts, music, and wider cultural sectors, including through our arm’s-length body, Arts Council England. Through its current investment programme, more than £444 million of public money is being invested each year in arts and culture across England. This is an increase from £410 million in the previous portfolio, and will support 985 organisations across England – more than ever before. In addition, through Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grant funding, in 2022/23 over £105 million of awards went to individuals and arts organisations across the country.
For sport, Government support is delivered alongside National Lottery funding through the UK Sports Councils, and UK Sport provides funding to support potential Olympic and Paralympic athletes. We provide the majority of support for grassroots sport through our arm’s-length body, Sport England, which receives over £100 million in public funding each year. In addition, direct Government financial support worth over £350 million is being delivered through the Multi-Sport Grassroots Facilities Programme, Swimming Pool Support Fund, and the tennis court refurbishment programme.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Wansbeck)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many inland bathing water site applications were received in 2022; and how many and what proportion of those applications were accepted.
Answered by Robbie Moore - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
In 2022 Defra received 16 bathing water applications for inland sites. Three of these sites were designated as bathing waters: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek, Rutland Water Sykes Lane and an area of the River Deben Estuary at Waldringfield, Suffolk.
Asked by: Stephanie Peacock (Labour - Barnsley East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the number and proportion of children and young people meeting the UK Chief Medical Officers' recommended levels of physical activity.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Sport and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health and this government is committed to ensuring every child, no matter their background or ability, should be able to play sport and be active.
That is why in ‘Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity’ we introduce an ambition that all children should meet the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines on physical activity, with a target of getting 1 million more active children by 2030.
Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport, setting them up for a lifetime of physical activity. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport, with guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and School Games Organiser network.
Outside of the school day, the £57 million Opening School Facilities programme will support the most inactive young people to access facilities that will enable them to play sport and take physical exercise. By opening school sport facilities, including swimming pools, disparities in access to opportunities seen between socio-economic groups will begin to be tackled through the programme.
Over the school holidays, the Government offers £200 million of support per year to the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which provides disadvantaged children in England with enriching activities (including physical and creative activities) and healthy meals. Last summer, the programme reached over 685,000 children and young people in England, including over 475,000 children in receipt of free school meals.
We are also investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support youth participation in sport.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the availability of swimming (a) pools and (b) lessons for children.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Responsibility for public access to and maintenance of swimming pools lies at local authority level.
In recognition of the benefits of physical activity, including swimming, and the challenges facing the sector, we are providing over £60 million of support for swimming pools. This will help ease cost pressures facing public swimming pool providers and help make facilities sustainable in the long-term through investment in energy efficiency measures. The funding is being delivered in partnership with Sport England and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, following extensive consultation with local authorities and the sector.
Swimming and water safety is a vital life skill, which is why it is a mandatory part of the primary PE National Curriculum. The Department for Education also administers schemes to ensure the provision of lessons and sports facilities for children, such as through the PE and Sport Premium and the Opening School Facilities (OSF) programme.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase pupil access to (a) sports and (b) arts opportunities out of school.
Answered by Stuart Andrew - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
Sport and physical activity are incredibly important for our physical and mental health and this government is committed to ensuring every child, no matter their background or ability, should be able to play sport and be active.
That is why in ‘Get Active: A strategy for the future of sport and physical activity’ we introduce an ambition that all children should meet the Chief Medical Officers’ guidelines on physical activity, with a target of getting 1 million more active children by 2030.
Schools play a key role in allowing all children to have high quality opportunities to take part in PE and sport, setting them up for a lifetime of physical activity. In July we published an update to the School Sport and Activity Action Plan. This builds on the announcement we made in March that set out new ambitions for equal access to PE and sport, with guidance on how to deliver 2 hours of quality PE a week, alongside over £600 million funding for the Primary PE and Sport Premium and School Games Organiser network.
Outside of the school day, the £57 million Opening School Facilities programme will support the most inactive young people to access facilities that will enable them to play sport and take physical exercise. By opening school sport facilities, including swimming pools, disparities in access to opportunities seen between socio-economic groups will begin to be tackled through the programme.
Over the school holidays, the Government offers £200 million of support per year to the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which provides disadvantaged children in England with enriching activities (including physical and creative activities) and healthy meals. Last summer, the programme reached over 685,000 children and young people in England, including over 475,000 children in receipt of free school meals.
We are also investing over £300 million in grassroots football and multi-sport facilities across the UK by 2025 which will further support youth participation in sport.
The Government is additionally providing significant arts and cultural opportunities for young people both in and out of school.
This includes our creative careers promise, which is backed by £115m a year to increase young people’s access to cultural and music education. The upcoming Cultural Education Plan will support all children and young people to access a broad range of high-quality cultural and creative activities and experiences inside and outside of school. Our Enrichment Partnerships Pilot aims to improve the availability and quality of enrichment activities in up to 200 secondary schools within Education Investment Areas. In addition, 79% of the organisations in Arts Council England’s 2023-26 Investment Programme portfolio are delivering activity specifically for children and young people of all ages, wherever they live.
Separately, the Government funds a diverse portfolio of music and arts education programmes that are designed to improve participation in the arts for children. The National Saturday Club, for example, gives 13 to 16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study the subjects they love for free, including arts and creative subjects, on a Saturday at their local university, college or cultural institution. Government and Arts Council England also co-fund 15 National Youth Music Organisations offering large-scale, inclusive performances, high-quality music programmes, residencies, summer schools and workshops, to help develop young people’s skills, experience, and knowledge of music, supporting them to excel as young creatives outside of school.
The National Plan for Music Education includes £25m funding for musical instruments and equipment for schools, and the Music Progression Fund supports disadvantaged pupils with music tuition. Furthermore, we have created four new Music Hub Centres of Excellence to improve inclusion and create pathways to industry for talented young people from all backgrounds.