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John Healey
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
📅 1997–2026
3,850 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 82.09%
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.38%
📝 Topics: Armed Forces: Housing, Afghanistan: Refugees, Ukraine: Military Aid
🤝 Member of 2 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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Cabinet Office
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the oral statement made by the Secretary of State for Defence entitled Defence Personnel Data Breach of 7 May 2024, Official Report, column 469, who will lead the Cabinet Office review of Government contracts with Shared Services…
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the (a) Minister for Veterans Affairs and (b) Minister for Trade Policy has attended any meetings with (i) Stoll Foundation and (ii) Stoll veterans on the sale of Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions and the support provided to residents during the…
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on which dates the Minister for Veterans Affairs has met with representatives of the Stoll Foundation to discuss the future of Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) emails and (b) phone calls the Office for Veterans Affairs has received from (i) the Stoll Foundation and (ii) veterans housed at Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions since January 2023.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many visits the Minister for Veterans Affairs has made to Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions to discuss the future of the site since January 2023.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings the Minister for Veterans Affairs had with (a) local councillors and (b) Members of Parliament on the future of the Sir Oswald Stoll Mansions site since January 2023.
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To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw of 23 April 2024, from which (a) Departments, (b) arms length bodies and (c) other organisations the number of civil servants will be reduced to help fund the commitment to spend 2.5%…
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Department for Business and Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when she expects his Department to conclude negotiations with Harland and Wolff on a loan under the Export Development Guarantee Scheme.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many publicly accessible (a) swimming pools and (b) lidos have been opened in each year since 2010.
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Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2024 to Question 25157 on Local Government: Elections, whether the number of veterans turned away from polling stations on 2 May 2024 after attempting to use their Veterans ID card as voter ID…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an estimate of the number of UK veterans who were turned away from polling stations on 2 May after attempting to use their Veterans ID Card as voter ID.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will list companies that are prohibited from providing equipment for 5G networks.
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Department for Work and Pensions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Universal Credit claimants have been identified as (a) serving and (b) having served in the armed forces for the latest assessment period.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) serving personnel and (b) veterans are claiming Universal Credit by local authority for the latest reporting period.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what steps his Department has taken in its role as the penholder on Sudan at the United Nations Security Council.
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To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in (a) the US and (b) France on the war in Sudan since the start of that conflict.
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To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, how many (a) people and (b) entities connected to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have been sanctioned by the UK Government.
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To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what estimate his Department has made of the number of civilians killed in Sudan since the start of the civil war in that country.
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To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2023 to Question 6083 on Afghanistan: Refugees, how many (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme eligible Afghan nationals classed as (i) principals and (ii) dependents are in…
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To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, how many Afghan people are being housed in UK hotel funded accommodation in Pakistan under the (a) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (b) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme as of 18 April 2024.
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Home Office
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan people are awaiting an initial decision on their asylum application as of 18 April 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan (a) principals and (b) dependents are being housed in hotel accommodation under the (i) Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and (ii) Afghan citizens resettlement scheme.
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Ministry of Defence
It is my personal responsibility to represent veterans at Cabinet and I am proud to do it.With the Office for Veterans Affairs now part of the MOD and the Minister for Veterans and People working across Government and with veteran groups, we are determined to bring forward a range of action to…
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This Government’s unwavering commitment to the triple lock to our nuclear deterrent is underpinned by major infrastructure programmes underway on the Clyde and in Devonport and the Dreadnought submarine programme in Barrow-in-Furness.Our commitment to SSN-AUKUS and the increased use of…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will list all the contracts managed by Defence Business Services.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total value is of the contracts managed by Defence Business Services.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) full time and (b) reservist Armed Forces personnel are working on recruitment for the (i) British Army, (ii) Royal Navy, (iii) RAF and (iv) Royal Marines as of 13 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 July 2023 to Question 194671, what his Department's recruitment targets for the armed forces are for 2024-25.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to Question 21542 on Armed Forces: Housing tabled by the Rt hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne on 15 April 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to Question 21541 on Armed Forces: Housing tabled by the Rt hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne on 15 April 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) of his Department's civilian personnel, (b) Armed Forces personnel and (c) external private contractors work on recruitment for the (i) Royal Navy, (ii) British Army, (iii) Royal Air Force and (iv) Royal Marines.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personal data incidents have affected Defence Children Services schools and settings since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) armed forces (i) personnel and (ii) families and (b) civil servants in his Department have been affected by personal data incidents related to Defence Children Services schools and settings in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2024 to Question 25754 on Armed Forces: Recruitment, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of the senior responsible officer’s time that was spent working on the Recruiting Partnering Project in the last 12…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2024 to Question 25754 on Armed Forces: Recruitment, what other programmes the Senior Responsible Officer has responsibility for.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices to quit have been issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to (a) service and (b) non service families in Service Family Accommodation properties in the UK in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many notices to quit have been issued by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to (a) service and (b) non service families in Service Family Accommodation properties in the UK in each month since January 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on (a) upkeep and (b) maintenance of HMS Westminster since October 2022.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out of service date is for RFA Argus.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the out of service date is for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s Bay-class ships.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, where the new Multi-Role Support Ships will be built.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when HMS Bulwark will next deploy.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of Ukrainian military personnel have been trained via Operation INTERFLEX.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his speech at the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power conference on 14 May 2024, how much funding his Department has allocated for the construction of six new multi-role support ships.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his speech at the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power conference on 14 May 2024, what the planned timetable is for the multi-role support ships reaching (a) initial and (b) full operating capability.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his speech at the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power conference on 14 May 2024, what the planned in-service date is for the multi-role support ships.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the new Multi-Role Support Ships will be operated by the (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, whether the new Multi-Role Support Ships will be…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, what his planned timetable is to launch the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, what the expected in-service date will be for the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled New Golden Age of shipbuilding as new UK-built warships boost Navy building programme to up to 28 ships and submarines, published on 14 May 2024, for how many of the new multi-role support ships has…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether officials in his Department are supporting the work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to de-escalate the civil war in Sudan.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of civil servants at Defence Business Services have had information security training in the last 12 months.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 16 May 2023 to Question 184569 on Ministry of Defence: Data Protection, if he will make an estimate of the number of people affected by personal data incidents.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has received a Military Aid to Civilian Authority request from the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the implementation of the Rwanda scheme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has a joint working group on Sudan with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has had discussions with his counterparts in (a) the US and (b) France on the war in Sudan since the start of that conflict.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on the civil war in Sudan.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many officials in his Department work on the Sudan desk as of 16 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many shipbuilding contracts have been awarded to industry since the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh was published.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Ukrainian personnel his Department plans to train under Operation Interflex by the end of 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many DragonFire systems are planned to enter service in the Royal Navy in (a) 2027, (b) 2028, (c) 2029 and (d) 2030.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department has (a) allocated to and (b) spent on the DragonFire programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his expected timetable is to sell HMS Argyll to BAE Systems.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it has been agreed how much BAE Systems will pay to purchase HMS Argyll.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to take (a) HMS Albion and b) HMS Bulwark out of extended readiness.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when will (a) HMS Albion and (b) HMS Bulwark return to active service.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his expected timetable is to retire HMS Westminster.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total contract value is for the New Medium Helicopter programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Department has spent on the Ajax programme as of 14 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many programme milestones the Ajax programme has (a) passed and (b) missed since January 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of when Ajax will have (a) initial and (b) full operating capability.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of applications were (a) received and (b) voluntarily withdrawn to join the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his speech at the First Sea Lord’s Sea Power conference on 14 May 2024, what the average time is to process an application to join the Royal Navy.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which organisation manages the recruitment system for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications were received to join the full time Royal Navy in each month since January 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications were made to join the Maritime Reserves in each month since January 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) recruitment target and (b) actual intake was for the the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in financial year 2023-24.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of new recruits joined the (a) British army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force in financial year 2023-24.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many applications to join the full time (a) British Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) Royal Air Force were received in financial year 2023-24.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 16 May 2023 to Question 184569 on Ministry of Defence: Data Protection, how many personal data breaches among suppliers contracted by his Department were reported to his Department in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, where the UK defence attaché for Sudan is based.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his Department's policy is on the deployment of (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships without a full crew.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships have been deployed without a full crew since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the minimum number of crew with which each (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship can be deployed.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) recruitment target and (b) workforce intake was for the (i) Army Reserves, (ii) Maritime Reserves and (iii) Royal Marines Reserves in financial year 2023-24.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) recruitment target and (b) workforce intake was for full-time (i) Army, (ii) Royal Navy and (iii) Royal Marines personnel in financial year 2023-24.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many MOD Police officers have been recruited in each year since 2010; and what his Department's recruitment target for such officers was for each of those years.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) mean, (b) median and (c) modal pay for MOD Police officers was in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the annual funding in cash terms has been for MOD Police in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many UK munition sites the MOD Police provide security for.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the workforce numbers were for the MOD Police in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the role of MOD Police in providing security services for UK munitions sites in each year until 2030.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what is the average salary was for service staff at each Royal Fleet Auxilliary rank in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his planned timetable is to select a preferred bidder for the New Medium Helicopter programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2021 to Question 91847 on Navy: Shipping, whether that contract has now been awarded.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 16 December 2021 to Question 91847 on Navy: Shipping, what the whole life costs are for this programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of routers in his Department were manufactured by (a) Huawei and (b) ZTE.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) laptops and (b) desktops in his Department were manufactured by (i) Lenovo and (ii) Xiaomi.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of mobile phones used by (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department were manufactured by (i) Huwaei, (ii) ZTE, (iii) Oppo, (iv) Honor and (v) Xiaomi.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his Department's policy to allow the use of WPS Office on official electronic devices.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of mobile phones used by (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have sim cards provided by CMLink.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much he plans to allocate to spending on defence R&D in each year to 2030.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of routers used by Shared Services Connected Ltd to manage the armed forces payroll system were manufactured by (a) Huawei and (b) ZTE.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his Department's policy to prohibit defence subcontractors from using technology manufactured by Huawei.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it is his Department's policy to prohibit defence subcontractors from using technology manufactured by Chinese state owned companies.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) full time and (b) reservist British Army personnel have worked on recruitment in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Armed Forces Recruitment Programme has a full-time senior responsible officer.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many civilian staff in his Department received information security training in each year since 2019.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of his Department’s civil servants have received information security training.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Continuous Attitude Survey.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 25 July 2023 to Question 194671, what the Royal Air Force’s recruitment target was for each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many CCTV cameras manufactured by (a) Hikvision and (b) Dahua have been installed on his Department's sites in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many CCTV cameras manufactured by (a) Hikvision and (b) Dahua are installed on his Department's sites.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department last made a payment to General Dynamics Land Systems UK in relation to the Ajax programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of when Ajax will have completed its reliability growth trials.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many programme milestones the Ajax programme has missed since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many airframes his Department plans to purchase for the New Medium Helicopter programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to appoint a defence production envoy.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what powers the defence production envoy will have.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, to whom the proposed envoy to oversee production of weapons and ammunition will report.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for joint working between the (a) proposed envoy to oversee production of weapons and ammunition and (b) Minister for Defence Procurement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what powers he plans to give the proposed envoy to oversee production of weapons and ammunition in the context of (a) managing contracts and (b) spending.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what process he plans to use to select the proposed envoy to oversee production of weapons and ammunition.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for joint working between the (a) proposed envoy to oversee production of weapons and ammunition and (b) head of Defence Equipment and Support.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average amount of time is that an (a) officer and (b) rating serves in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) full-time equivalent and (b) part time civil servants there were at Defence Business Services in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personal data incidents affecting suppliers to his Department have been reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, which external organisation his Department has commissioned to conduct an independent investigation into the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his oral statement entitled Defence Personnel Data Breach of 7 May 2024, Official Report, column 466, when the investigation into that data breach will be concluded.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has found evidence that personal data has been copied out of the subcontractor’s IT system by a malign actor following the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information his Department holds on whether personal data belonging to (a) current and (b) former armed forces personnel has been published online following the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) serving armed forces personnel and (b) veterans had their addresses accessed during the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) full-time, (b) reservist and (c) former armed forces personnel reported suspicious activity related to their bank account to his Department following the data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) original and (b) end date as of 13 May 2024 is for the Recruiting Partnership Project.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spent on the Recruiting Partnership Project.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Recruiting Partnership Project has a full-time senior responsible officer.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the contract end date is for the Armed Forces Recruitment Programme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personal data incidents have affected suppliers to his Department in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personal data incidents related to the recruitment for the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy, (c) RAF and (d) Royal Marines there have been since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many potential recruits to the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy, (c) RAF and (d) Royal Marines have been affected by personal data incidents related to recruitment systems since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) armed forces personnel, (b) civil servants in his Department and (c) veterans have been affected by personal data incidents affecting MOD suppliers in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 7 May 2024 to Question 23990, how many eligibility decisions have been overturned as a result of the review.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department last signed new contracts for (a) AMRAAM, (b) ASRAAM, (c) CAMM, (d) Javelin, (e) NLAW, (f) Tomahawk and (g) Aster missiles.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what role armed forces personnel will play in deportation flights for the Rwanda scheme.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to accelerate the delivery of the Boxer RCH 155 Self Propelled Howitzer.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Boxer RCH 155 Self Propelled Howitzers the Army plans to procure.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the value of the programme to procure new Boxer RCH 155 Self Propelled Howitzers is for the Army.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the Boxer RCH 155 Self Propelled Howitzer will enter service with the Army.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any personnel on exchange programmes from non-UK allied Armed Forces have been affected by the data breach following the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) full-time, (b) reservist and (c) former armed forces personnel were affected by the data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether salary payments for serving armed forces personnel due in May 2024 were affected by the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) the contractor, (b) officials in his Department, (c) Ministers and (d) he first learned of the armed forces payment data breach reported on 6 May 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many investigations the Information Commissioner’s Office has open related to data breaches in his Department.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the total cost to his Department was of the five Airbus H135 helicopters purchased under Project Matcha.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Defence Equipment and Support's article entitled DE&S places new order with BAE Systems to increase 155mm shells stockpile for British Army, published on 11 July 2023, when his Department expects to achieve an eight-fold increase in 155mm…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many types of uncrewed aerial systems the Armed Forces operate.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the five Airbus H135 helicopters purchased by his Department under Project Matcha have flown operationally.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, for what reason the five Airbus H135 helicopters purchased under Project Matcha did not enter service.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2023 to Question 1465 on Military Aircraft: Helicopters, whether the Airbus H135 helicopters purchased under Project MATCHA have been sold.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to respond to Question 15576 on Unmanned Air Vehicles, tabled on 26 February 2024 by the Rt hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects the Army to have stood up the Army Trials Unit.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, who will be the Commanding Officer of the Army Trials Unit.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Written Statement of 1 February 2024 on Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) Scheme Update, HCWS233, whether his Department has completed the reassessments of eligibility decisions made on ineligible ARAP applications with…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has a joint unit with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on Ukraine.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of Invitations to Negotiate issued by his Department did not lead to a procurement contract in 2023.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) UK and (b) German content is of the Challenger III main battle tank.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the £6.6bn in R&D spend for defence announced in his Department's paper entitled Defence and Security Industrial Strategy: A strategic approach to the UK’s defence and security industrial sectors, CP 410, published in March 2021, is…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the delivery of the Future Commando Force.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average length of time is between his Department sending an Invitation To Negotiate and a procurement contract coming into effect.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many swimming pools have been maintained by the (a) Royal Navy and (b) Royal Marines in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's spending was with SMEs in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the implementation of The Defence Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Action Plan.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Defence Equipment and Support's article entitled £122m contract sees UK’s fleet of Airbus H145s expanded with six procured for overseas duties, published on 18 April 2024, whether that contract includes through-life support…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to Defence Equipment & Support's article entitled £122m contract sees UK’s fleet of Airbus H145s expanded with six procured for overseas duties, published on 18 April 2024, whether the purchase of those Airbus H145s affects the…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to purchase a second Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance vessel.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has taken delivery of new Javelin Lightweight Command Launch Units ordered in 2022.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he expects his Department to take delivery of new Javelin missiles.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the membership is of his Department's investment approvals committee.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) officers and (b) ratings were employed by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average amount of time is that an (a) officer and (b) rating serves in the Royal Navy.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish the (a) lethal and (b) non lethal military aid donated to Ukraine since February 2022.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether it remains his Department's policy to build a second Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance vessel in the UK.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has taken delivery of the first newly UK-built NLAW missiles.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when (a) he and (b) Ministers in his Department last met (i) the Nautilus and (ii) RMT Unions.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much and what proportion of his Department's budget for research and development has not been allocated.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many sabotage incidents have taken place at UK defence industrial sites in each year since 2010.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many appeals of an initial eligibility decision under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy have been made; and how many and what proportion of these appeals were successful.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the number of personnel serving in the Russian armed forces in Ukraine who have (a) been killed in action, (b) been wounded and (c) deserted their posts since February 2022.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of mercenaries serving in Russian private military companies who have (a) been killed in action, (b) been wounded and (c) deserted their post since February 2022.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an estimate of the number of Russian (a) main battle tanks, (b) armoured fighting vehicles, (c) fixed-wing aircrafts, (d) helicopters, (e) unmanned aerial vehicles, (f) ships, (g) artillery systems, (h) multiple-launch rocket systems…
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2024 to Question 15728 on Afghanistan: Refugees, how many applicants are awaiting an eligibility decision as of 18 April 2024.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Afghan people are (a) in the UK and (b) awaiting an initial decision on their eligibility under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy scheme as of 18 April 2024.
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Treasury
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Spring Budget 2024, whether the £2.5bn in military support for Ukraine in 2024 will be drawn from the Treasury reserves.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the press release of 23 April 2024 entitled PM call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine: 23 April 2024, whether the £500 million for Ukraine in 2024 will be drawn from the Treasury reserves.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to allocate at least £3 billion for military support to Ukraine in each year between 2024 and 2030.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech in Warsaw on 23 April 2024, whether his Department has (a) conducted an assessment of costings and (b) developed proposals for how to fund the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by…
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech in Warsaw on 23 April 2024, whether the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030 will be require additional funding streams other than through reductions to (a) the civil service…
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw of 23 April 2024, by how much each Department's research and development budget will be reduced to help fund the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030.
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s defence speech in Warsaw of 23 April 2024, whether the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030 has been incorporated into his Department's baseline budgets.
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