23 Feb 17. UK National Shipbuilding Strategy. Tuesday 28 February 2017 Grimond Room, Portcullis House.
At 10.00am:
• Sir John Parker GBE FREng, Independent Chairman, National Shipbuilding Strategy
This is a one-off session to consider Sir John Parker’s Independent Report to inform the UK National Shipbuilding Strategy, which the Government expect to publish in spring 2017. Specific areas the Committee are likely to consider are:
• MoD management of programmes and funding
• Design and build times
• Virtual shipbuilding strategy
• Exports
• Shipbuilding and dockyards
• Workforce
• Current programmes
The Committee will also raise its conclusions and recommendations of its report: Restoring the Fleet: Naval Procurement and the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
House of Commons and House of Lords Hansard Written Answers
Q
Asked by Mrs Madeleine Moon
(Bridgend)
Asked on: 17 February 2017
Ministry of Defence
Defence Equipment: Procurement
64054
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will take steps to correct the totalled data in figure 7 on page 11 of the Financial Summary of the Defence Equipment Plan 2016; and if he will make a statement.
A
Answered by: Harriett Baldwin
Answered on: 23 February 2017
There was a formula error in Fig. 7 of the published version of the Equipment Plan. As a result of a formatting change to the table, the total line was incorrect. However, the five lines of numbers above were correct. The issue had already been identified and corrected internally, with a revised version of the Equipment Plan published online on 17 February 2017.
Q
Asked by Mr Kevan Jones
(North Durham)
Asked on: 20 February 2017
Ministry of Defence
Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations
64491
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent discussions his Department has had with NATO on the UK contribution to Operation Resolute Support and the number of UK personnel supporting that operation.
A
Answered by: Mike Penning
Answered on: 23 February 2017
The UK has a long term commitment to Afghanistan, with 500 troops deployed as part of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission. Our core outputs are improving the capability of the Afghan security institutions, developing the Afghan National Army Officer Academy, mentoring the Afghan Air Force and providing vital support for NATO in Kabul through command of the Kabul Security Force.
We maintain regular dialogue with NATO on the future of the mission in Afghanistan, including through the UK Delegation to NATO, our team working in Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, and at meetings of NATO Chief of Defence Staffs, the last of which was held in January. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State also had the opportunity to discuss Afghanistan with fellow NATO Defence Ministers at the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting, held on 15-16 February.
Q
Asked by Sir Nicholas Soames
(Mid Sussex)
[N]
Asked on: 20 February 2017
Ministry of Defence
NATO
64514
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government’s policy is on NATO Transformation.
A
Answered by: Mike Penning
Answered on: 23 February 2017
A key commitment from the Wales Summit in 2014 is NATO Adaptation, which builds on the work of Allied Command (Transformation).
Government Ministers regularly discuss the need to reform NATO with their counterparts, and did so again at the NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting on 15/16 February 2017.
The UK continues to push NATO to become a genuinely adaptable Alliance that is less bureaucratic, faster and better at making decisions, and is able to respond more effectively to a wide range of threats, including cyber, hybrid, and international terrorism.
Q
Asked by Margaret Ferrier
(Rutherglen and Hamilton West)
Asked on: 30 January 2017
Ministry of Defence
Yemen: Military Intervention
62165
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many allegations of humanitarian law violations by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen his