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Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : "Talk Through" is funded from MOD common services (reprographic services) within vote subhead 1L9, at a current annual cost of £15,000.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is (1) the total procurement cost, and (2) the annual operating cost of the Courgarnet radio system operated by the Ministry of Defence police ; and from which subheads of which votes these costs are taken.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The total procurement cost of Courgarnet to date has been £2.651 million ; the annual running cost of spares and maintenance is £331,000. These costs fall to vote 2F2.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if Ministry of Defence police are ever deployed to overseas bases.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : One superintendent is currently serving on loan with the sovereign base area police in Cyprus. Otherwise, MOD police officers are deployed overseas and on Her Majesty's ships at sea as and when required to carry out inquiries. There are no MOD police stations outside the United Kingdom.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) men and (b) women are employed by the Ministry of Defence police ; and at what ranks they are employed.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The number of male and female MOD police officers by rank on 1 November 1990 was :
|Male |Female|Total
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Chief Constable |1 |- |1
Deputy Chief Constable |1 |- |1
Assistant Chief Constable |5 |- |5
Chief Superintendent |13 |- |13
Superintendent |27 |- |27
Chief Inspector |56 |2 |58
Inspector |161 |7 |168
Sergeant |666 |31 |697
Constable |3,489 |339 |3,828
Total |4,419 |379 |4,798
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the total cost of reorganising the Ministry of Defence police into geographical divisions ; and from which subheads of which votes this money was taken.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : Reorganising the MOD police into geographical divisions took place on 1 October 1988 as part of a larger major reorganisation of headquarters and higher management, the costs of which, and compensating savings, fell across a number of subheads and cannot be separately identified.
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Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what access the Ministry of Defence police have to the police national computer.Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The MOD police do not have direct access to the police national computer. Should MDP require a PNC check, this is normally obtained through the Home Department police force in whose area the MDP station concerned is situated.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) male and (b) female personnel of the Ministry of Defence police are currently in (i) married quarters and (ii) single persons' accommodation provided by his Department.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The figures are as follows :
|Occupying |Occupying
|married |single
|quarters |accommodation
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Male Officers |771 |<1>107
Female Officers |15 |<1>22
<1> Excludes those officers on initial training courses
at the MOD police training school.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the policy of his Department regarding the acceptance by members of the Ministry of Defence police of awards given by (i) British and (ii) non- British organisations.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The policy on the granting and receiving of honours and awards to and by members of the Ministry of Defence police is the same as it is for all Crown servants. Rules relating to the acceptance and wearing by Crown servants of awards conferred by foreign states are laid down by the Foreign Office under the Foreign and Commonwealth Order, regulations A and B.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the Ministry of Defence police are consulted during the drafting of new military lands byelaws.
Tern Hill Barracks (Bombing)
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement regarding the bill sent to West Mercia police for assistance rendered subsequent to the bombing of Tern Hill barracks, Shropshire ; what is the sum of this bill ; and to which subheads of which votes these funds will be allocated when the bill is paid.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : A bill for approximately £79,500 has been presented to the West Mercia police for logistic support provided by the Ministry of Defence, in assisting the investigation of the explosion at Clive barracks, Tern Hill. This sum covered a number of items, including the provision of meals and temporary shelters, hire of cranes and skips, civil and military transport and contract labour. The bill has been raised in accordance with the normal arrangements for charging the police for logistic assistance from the services. The receipt would be charged to class I, vote 1 subhead LZ(9), which covers receipts for service assistance to civil authorities.
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Greenham Common
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many arrests of members of the public have been made at RAF Greenham Common since the byelaws were declared invalid ;
(2) how many people have been removed from the area enclosed by the perimeter fence at RAF Greenham Common in each month since the byelaws were declared invalid.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : I remind the hon. Member that despite the House of Lords judgment given on 12 July, concerning byelaw 2(b), there is no right of access to Greenham Common for members of the general public. Details of trespassers removed from the base between that date and 23 November are as follows :
|Number
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12 to 31 July |170
August |159
September |127
October |197
1 to 23 November |58
|-------
|711
However, many of the above cases involve a relatively small number of persistent trespassers.
Any person suspected of committing a criminal offence remains liable to be arrested and charged accordingly, and that position is not affected by the validity of the byelaws. Since 12 July, 55 arrests have been made at Greenham Common, mainly for causing criminal damage.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the cost of policing RAF Greenham Common since the byelaws were declared invalid.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The cost of policing RAF Greenham Common since 12 July 1990 is of the order of £650,000.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what powers of arrest members of United States forces based at RAF Greenham Common have.
Mr. Kenneth Carlisle : The hon. Member will recall from the answer given to him by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, North (Mr. Stewart) on 28 April 1988 at column 242 that the powers of arrest of United States military personnel in the United Kingdom are the same as those of an ordinary British citizen.
Salisbury Plain
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether there have been any proposals to rewrite the Salisbury plain military lands byelaws in the last five years.
Air Defence Systems
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what real-time data links there are between the United Kingdom air defence ground environment system and the Iceland air defence system.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : There is one such link.
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Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether data gathered by the AN/FPS-117 radars at Bolafjall and Gunnolfsvikurfjall in Iceland are passed on for use as input data for the United Kingdom air defence ground environment system.Mr. Archie Hamilton : Not at present.
Military Construction
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will list the NATO-funded military construction projects that will be in construction for United States forces at bases in the United Kingdom in the fiscal year 1991 ;
(2) if he will list the NATO-funded military construction projects that will be in construction for United States forces at bases in the United Kingdom in the fiscal year 1990.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : It is not the practice to publish information of this kind.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the United States military construction projects in the United Kingdom for which funding was requested in fiscal years (a) 1988, (b) 1989 and (c) 1990 that (i) were given funding approval by the United States Congress, (ii) were approved for construction by Her Majesty's Government, (iii) have started construction and (iv) have had construction halted.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : I understand that Congress has granted funding approval for the following United States military construction projects in the following fiscal years.
1988
RAF Alconbury
Chemical weapons protection
Squadron operations facility
Installation of a fire support system*
RAF Bentwaters
Consolidated support centre*
Alteration to unaccompanied enlisted personnel housing* Digital European backbone (DEB)
RAF Chicksands
(DEB) telephone exchange*
Croughton
Improvements to water storage system*
RAF Edzell
Security Gatehouse*
RAF Lakenheath
Base operations facility*
Combat arms range*
Control tower*
RAF Welford
Base ground defence igloo*
RAF Wethersfield
DEB telephone exchange
1989
RAF Bentwaters
Recreation centre*
Security Police operations facility*
Sound suppressor support*
RAF Feltwell
Passive defence equipment store*
RAF Lakenheath
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DEB communications building*Construct unaccompanied enlisted personnel housing*
Semi-hardened communications facility*
RAF Machrihanish
Bachelor enlisted quarters*
RAF Mildenhall
Child development centre*
Alter/add to water storage*
Alter/add to operations facility*
RAF Upper Heyford
Alter/add to vehicle maintenance facility*
RAF Welford
Fire station*
Munitions igloos*
1990
RAF Alconbury
Munitions storage
RAF Barford St. John
Physical protection*
RAF Bentwaters
Add/alter fire station
Add/alter munitions storage
Add/alter flight simulator facility
Bovingdon
Site Security*
Christmas Common
Site Security*
RAF Edzell
Operations building annex
RAF Fairford
DEB telephone exchange
RAF Machrihanish
Operations facility
RAF Mildenhall
Upgrade sewage treatment plant*
RAF Upper Heyford
Alter munitions storage
Department of Defence schools
Bicester Elementary School
Upwood Elementary School
Those projects indicated thus (*) are known to have started construction. All projects under construction have been approved by Her Majesty's Government. Such approval is a matter for discussion between the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom. In no cases where construction has started has it been halted.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the United States military construction projects in the United Kingdom for which funding approval was given in fiscal year 1991, giving for each project its location, the nature of facilities to be constructed, and stating for each project whether Her Majesty's Government have given approval for that project being carried out.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : The only United States military construction project which is listed against the United Kingdom, in those projects approved by Congress for fiscal year 1991, is for water storage at Menwith Hill.
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