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Colchester Garrison
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 1 July 2002, Official Report, column 36W, if the Investment Approvals Board has further considered the Colchester Garrison PFI project; if he will make a statement on the outcome of the Board's considerations; and when it will next meet to consider this matter. [72608]
Mr. Ingram: The Colchester Garrison PFI Project remains under review by the Investment Approvals Board (IAB), and an outcome of their considerations has not yet been reached. The IAB is scheduled to convene again on 12 August.
Runways
Mr. David Stewart: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his Department's airfields in the UK have runways in excess of 1,800 metres in length; how many have a runway and taxiway bearing strength sufficient to take large civil aircraft; and if he will make a statement. [71899]
Dr. Moonie: The table lists all Ministry of Defence airfields with runways in excess of 1,800 metres. 16 of these 34 airfields, indicated by '*', can in principle accommodate a large civil aircraft, such as a DC10. To give a specific answer on the capability of any of these airfields to take large civil aircraft, details would be required of the aircraft type, variant, Aircraft Classification Number (ACN), maximum all up weight and tyre pressure for the load to be carried, as well as details of crash category and handling equipment requirements.
- Barkston Heath
Benson
Boscombe Down
Brize Norton*
Chievnor
Church Fenton
Coltishall*
Coningsby*
Cottesmore*
Cranwell
Culdrose
Dishforth
Fairford*
Kinloss*
Lakenheath*
Leeming*
Leuchars
Llanbedr
Lossiemouth
Lyneham
Marham*
Mildenhall*
Odiham
Scampton*
Shawbury
St. Athan
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Topcliffe
Valley
Waddington*
Wattisham*
Wittering*
Wyton*
Yeovilton.
Military Maritime Graves
Mr. Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made in offering protection to military maritime graves. [73461]
Dr. Moonie: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 9 November 2001, Official Report, column 435W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore). A Statutory Instrument (SI) was made on 9 July 2002 which prohibits intrusive activity without licence on 11 vessels: HMS Bulwark, HMS Dasher, HMS Formidable, HMS Hampshire, HMS Natal, HMS A7, HMS Vanguard, HMS Affray, HMS Exmouth, HMS Royal Oak and H5, and in addition the U-boat U12, as representative of all U-boats lost in United Kingdom territorial waters. The SI prohibits intrusive activity without licence by UK national on a further five vessels: HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Repulse, HMS Gloucester and RFA Sir Galahad which lie in international waters. These regulations come into force on 30 September 2002.
Army Headquarters
Mr. Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he has completed the final assessment of the decision to locate the Army's headquarters in the north in Edinburgh. [73462]
Dr. Moonie: A post Project Evaluation into this decision has been completed and a copy has been placed in the Library of the House.
Warship Support Agency
Mr. Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the Warship Support Agency for financial year 2002–03. [73463]
Dr. Moonie: Key Targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the War Support Agency for financial year 2002–03. The targets build on progress already made and are as follows:
Upkeep period timeliness—target: Less than 7 per cent.
Available Vessel Days—target: More than 95 per cent.
Timely completion of high priority upgrade programme—target: 95 per cent.
Provision of the appropriate standard of single living accommodation to Naval Personnel—target: 25 per cent.
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Key Target 5: Quality
Operational support services—meeting the customers need ISO Quality Control Comment Form—targets:
- Group 1: 0 failures
Group 2: Less than 1 per cent. failure
Group 3: Less than 5 per cent. failure
- Greater than or equal to 95 per cent. to standard by survey
Greater than or equal to 45 per cent. of customers more than satisfied
Key Target 6: Quantity
To make the necessary Agency contribution to the DLO Strategic Goal of reducing output costs by 20 per cent. by 2005 while ensuring that we continue to deliver and indeed where appropriate improve the quality of our outputs.
RAF Personnel Management Agency
Jim Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what key targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the RAF Personnel Management Agency for the financial year 2002–03; [73464]
- (2) what key targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the RAF Personnel Management Agency for financial year 2002–03. [73468]
Dr. Moonie: The Commander-in-Chief Royal Air Force Personnel and Training Command has set the Chief Executive of the Agency the following targets for financial year 2002–03.
Key Target 1: Peacetime Manning
Performance indicator: The percentage of available trained personnel either filling established posts or on diversions for which there is an approved Manning and Training Margin—Greater than or equal to 93.25 per cent.
Key Target 2: Operational and Non-Operational MOD Authorised Unestablished Tasks
Performance indicator: The percentage manning level of operational and non-operational MOD authorised unestablished tasks—target: Greater than or equal to 98 per cent.
Key Target 3: Career Management
Performance indicator: The percentage of PMA's customers who are either satisfied or not dissatisfied with the service provided by the PMA—target: Greater than or equal to 82.5 per cent.
Key Target 4: Manpower Planning
Performance indicator: Percentage variation between actual trained strength and the authorised trained strength taken as an average over the financial year—target: No greater than or equal to ±1 per cent.
Performance indicator: Maintain operating costs within resources allocated—target: Expenditure contained within RCT.
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Duke of York's Royal Military School
Jim Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Chief Executive of the Duke of York's Royal Military School for the financial year 2002–03. [73470]
Dr. Moonie: The Chief Executive of the Duke of York's Royal Military School has been set the following Key Targets for 2002–03.
To achieve 95.9 per cent. of 15-year-old pupils gaining five or more passes graded A* to C at GCSE.
To achieve 23.93 per cent. of GCSE passes at grades A* or A.
To achieve an average GCSE points score per 15-year-old pupil of 57.36.
To achieve an average GCE points score per candidate of 20.59.
To achieve 38.72 per cent. of GCE passes at grades A or B.
To achieve a pupil per capita cost of no more than £12,542.
To generate income of at least £600,000.
To achieve at least 300 applications for September 2003 intake.
Afghanistan
Mr. Martlew: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to send a TA infantry platoon to support the International Security and Assistance Force in Afghanistan. [73502]
Dr. Moonie: We plan to deploy a composite Territorial Army infantry platoon to Kabul in order to provide a protection platoon to the United Kingdom component to the International Security and Assistance Force. The platoon will comprise members of the Territorial Army who have volunteered to be called out for this task. They will be mobilised at the end of July and deployed for three months from the end of August. The deployment is in line with the policy of making the Territorial Army more usable and integrated with the regular force.
Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency
Mr. Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key targets have been set for the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency for the financial year 2001–02. [73452]
Dr. Moonie: The role of the Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency is to provide imagery intelligence and geographic support to Defence policy, operations and training; to meet customer requirements for imagery intelligence and geographic support in accordance with Defence priorities; to maintain and develop Agency capabilities and readiness in line with
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future Defence requirements; and to become progressively more efficient, while improving the quality and delivery of its products and services. The Key Targets for the Agency for the 12 months from April 2002 are:
To satisfy operational requirements for Imagery Intelligence and Geographic Support within time scales and to standards agreed between the Agency and its customers.
(a) For Imagery Intelligence, by satisfying at least 95 per cent. of requirements overall, while delivering not less than 98 per cent. of Priority 1 tasks.
(b) For Geographic Support, by satisfying 100 per cent. of the geographic products and services essential to support current and potential operations, both from the Agency's United Kingdom based capabilities and its deployable units.
Key Target 2
To achieve the required levels of operational readiness for the deployable geographic support elements of the Agency in line with Defence Planning Assumptions.
To maintain agreed states of readiness as set by PJHQ for all contingency forces (JRRF).
To satisfy strategic and contingency requirements for Imagery Intelligence and Geographic Support within time scales and to standards agreed between the Agency and its customers.
(a) For Imagery Intelligence, by satisfying at least 54 per cent. of the requirements as set out in the Imagery Exploitation Programme (IEP) agreed during Financial Year (FY) 2001–02, while delivering not less than 92 per cent. of Priority 1 tasks.
(b) For Geographic Support, completing at least 90 per cent. of a customer endorsed programme of work for geographic products and services.
Key Target 3T (Transitional)
To develop Regional Support Agreements (RSAs) and establish an accurate baseline of the totality of Defence requirements for geographic information to be used as measurement in FY 2003–04.
The implementation of the new Key Target.
To demonstrate a further 1 per cent. improvement in the coverage of geographic information holdings resulting in a cumulative 3 per cent. improvement on the baseline established in 1999 and to maintain their quality for Defence use.
Maintain the Ministry of Defence Map Library collection at the agreed level of readiness and achieve a further 1 per cent. improvement in coverage of geographic information holdings.
In FY 2002–03, to develop output related targets and performance measures for implementation in FY 2003–04, which taken together across the Agency deliver outputs through a more efficient utilisation of resources.
The implementation of the new Key Target.
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