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24 May 2007 : Column 1384W—continued
| Adjutant General | ||
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Company of Fruiterers, The Masters, Wardens and Court of Assistants | ||
| General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland | ||
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| Commander in Chief Land | ||
| Date of hospitality | Provider | Description |
Departments: Private Finance Initiative
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total value is of private finance initiative projects included in his Department’s balance sheet for (a) 2007-08 and (b) each of the last five years, broken down by project. [137781]
Mr. Ingram: The total capital value of each PFI project that is included in the MOD balance sheet is published in the Her Majesty’s Treasury PFI Signed Projects List which can be found on the HMT website at:
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total value is of the annual private finance initiative payments made by his Department from (a) capital and (b) revenue budgets in each of the last five years. [137782]
Mr. Ingram: Details of the annual private finance initiative unitary charge payments are published in the Her Majesty’s Treasury PFI Signed Projects List which can be found on the HMT website at:
The relevant columns are V - Z.
All payments come from the revenue budget.
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what value of the annual private finance initiative payments for his Department is (a) identifiable and (b) non-identifiable in each of the last five years, broken down by project. [137783]
Mr. Ingram: All payments made under private finance initiative (PFI) are identifiable. Prior to a PFI contract being signed, the profile of unitary charge payments is agreed between the contractor and the public sector, subject to the operation of the payment mechanism.
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what value of annual private finance initiative (PFI) payments is (a) to repay capital and (b) expenditure on other parts of each PFI contract in each of the last five years, broken down by project. [137784]
Mr. Ingram: The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Departments: Sovereign Strategy
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many meetings (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department held with Sovereign Strategy in each year between 1997 and 2006. [136866]
Derek Twigg: There were no departmental meetings between Defence Ministers and Sovereign Strategy between 1997 and 2006, although the Minister for Europe, my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Mr. Hoon) met Alan Donnelly, Executive Chairman of Sovereign Strategy, on a number of occasions as they have been personal friends for a number of years. Also Ivor Caplin, a previous Defence Minister, met Alan Davidson, an Assistant Director of Sovereign Strategy, in a private capacity on 25 November 2004.
Specific data on the number of meetings between MOD officials and Sovereign Strategy are not held centrally within the Department and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Ex-servicemen: Medical Treatments
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many cases of medical treatment which have (a) been delayed and (b) not been received have been raised by veterans in the last five years. [137548]
Derek Twigg: This information is not held by the MOD or its Service Personnel and Veterans Agency (SPVA). Where a war pensioner raises priority treatment issues with MOD or SPVA, officials investigate and as appropriate take up cases with the relevant health authority.
HMS Albion
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reasons it is proposed to reduce HMS Albion to a state of extended readiness; and when he expects to announce a decision on the reduction. [138526]
Mr. Ingram [holding answer 21 May 2007]: It is not MOD policy to publish details of the readiness states of individual Royal Navy vessels or types (we have made exceptions for the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible and those ships entering refit, as detailed in my letter of 6 March 2007); nor would we be prepared to divulge the readiness profile of the fleet as a whole, or comment on individual changes. Such information could enable deductions to be made about the condition and preparedness of units and of the Navy, and would therefore be prejudicial to the safety of individual units and to national security.
Iraq and Afghanistan: Peace Keeping Operations
Mr. Walter: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many visits he has made to servicemen and women wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan; and how many visits have been made by other Ministers. [138833]
Des Browne [holding answer 22 May 2007]: Since 2003, Defence Ministers have made a total of 48 visits to injured service personnel in hospitals in the UK and overseas. Those injured service personnel include servicemen and women wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. The following table shows the number of visits made by each Minister.
| Visits | |
In addition, Ministers have also visited personnel in the UK once they have returned from operational duty. On some of these occasions Ministers will have met injured personnel and their families.
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