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Departmental Training

Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many staff in his Department and its agencies have attended the (a) Influencing with Integrity, (b) Emotional Intelligence, (c) Counselling Skills for the Workplace, (d) Managing your Confidence, (e) Balancing Work/Life Realities and (f) Working Assertively training course run by the National School of Government in the last 12 months for which information is available; and at what cost. [197060]

Derek Twigg: Information has been provided by the National School of Government. The number of MOD staff attending the courses listed, and the cost to the Department of each course, are set out as follows:

Course	Number of Attendees	Cost (£)
Influencing with Integrity	7	5,082
Emotional Intelligence	3	4,485
Counselling Skills for the Workplace	1	1,115
Managing Your Confidence	6	6,725
Balancing Work/Life Realities	0	—
Working Assertively	1	726

Helicopters: Training

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many training exercises were conducted by Apache and Chinook helicopter crews in each of the last five years; and what the (a) location and (b) type was of each. [174495]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The number of collective training exercises supported by both Apache and Chinook helicopter crews was seven in 2005, 13 in 2006 and 18 in 2007. Records are not held for collective training exercises conducted prior to 2005. The location and type of each exercise are shown in the following table. The number of collective training exercises supported by Chinook only and Apache only will take longer to collate. I will write to the hon. Member when this information is available. Aircrew training flights are too numerous to quantify.

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	Exercise details	Location
2005	Exercise Iron Storm—3 (UK) Division live firing Exercise	UK wide
2005	Qualified Helicopter Training Instructor Flying Phase—Air Crew Training Exercise	Scotland
2005 3 times	Exercise Bowman Vanguard—Fleet Collective Training Exercise	UK wide
2005	Exercise Bowman Ord—Fleet Exercise part of HMS Ocean sea trials	Sea trials
2005	Exercise Argonaut—Fleet Collective training Exercise	UK Wide
2006	Exercise Herrick Eagle—16 Brigade Herrick 4 Mission Rehearsal Exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area and Sennybridge Training Area
2006	Exercise Southern Raider—3 Commando Brigade Mission Rehearsal Exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area and Sennybridge Training Area
2006 5 times	OPTAG (Operational Training and Advisory Group) confirmation Exercises 3 Commando Brigade units Herrick 5 Pre Deployment Training	Stanford Training Area
2006	Exercise Iron Storm—3 (UK) Division Capstone Combat Services Support Exercise for Engineer Regiments' Herrick 5 Pre Deployment Training	UK Wide
2006 5 times	OPTAG confirmation Exercises—12 Division units Herrick 6 Pre Deployment Training	Stanford Training Area
2007	Exercise Desert Dragon—12 Division Herrick 6 Mission Rehearsal Exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area and Sennybridge Training Area
2007	Exercise Pashtun Ace—12 Division Close Combat Attack concentration as part of Herrick 6 Pre Deployment Training	Otterburn Training Area
2007 4 times	Ex Druid's Dance—52 Brigade Herrick 7 Pre Deployment Training	Sennybridge Training Area
2007 5 times	OPTAG Confirmation Exercises—52 Brigade units Herrick 7 Pre Deployment Training.	Stanford Training Area
2007	Exercise Desert Dragon—52 Brigade Herrick 7 Mission Rehearsal Exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area and Sennybridge Training Area
2007	Exercise Eagle's Eye—16 Brigade Airborne Task Force validation Exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007 5 times	OPTAG Confirmation Exercises—16 Brigade units Herrick 8 Pre Deployment	Training on Stanford Training Area

Substantive answer from Bob Ainsworth to Liam Fox:

I undertook to write to you in answer to your Parliamentary Question of 7 January 2008, Official Report, columns 46-47W with details of the number of collective training exercises supported by Chinook only or Apache only.

The number of collective training exercises (lasting longer than 24 hours' duration) supported by the Chinook is 31 and the Apache is four. The location and type of each exercise is shown below:

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	Exercise Details—Chinook only	Location
2005	Winter Environmental Training—Commando Helicopter Force	Norway
2005	Tactical Leadership Training—Night Exercise—Air Warfare Centre	Scotland
2005	HMS Ocean Basic Operational Sea Training— (deck landings)	Sea Trials
2005	Exercise Eagle's Strike—Airborne Task Force validation—3 PARA	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2005	Exercise Jebel Sahara—individual pilot training	Morocco
2006	Tactical Leadership Training—Night Exercise—Air Warfare Centre	Scotland
2006	Exercise Executive Stretch—TA Collective Training	Scotland
2006	Exercise Crimson Hurdle—Air Manoeuvre Training and Advisory Team Conversion to Role 4	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2006	HMS Albion Basic Operational Sea Training—deck landings	Sea Trials
2006	Exercise Herrick Archer—16 Air Assault Brigade Herrick 4 pre-deployment training	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2006	Exercise Northern Ranger—TA Annual Camp	Scotland
	Exercise Hawk Owl—Qualified Helicopter Tactics Instructor Fly phase—individual pilot training	Scotland
2006	Exercise Cock Feather—51 (Scottish) Brigade—air skills training	Scotland
2006	Exercise Grey Cormorant—Commando Group validation	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2006	Exercise Jebel Sahara—individual pilot training	Morocco
2006	Exercise Shamrock Blitz—1 Royal Irish Battle Group—Collective Training 1/2	Otterburn Training Area
2006	Exercise Herrick Eagle—16 Air Assault Brigade—Herrick 4—mission rehearsal exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area and Sennybridge Training Area
2007	Exercise Shamrock Marauder—1 Royal Irish Battle Group—Collective Training 3	Otterburn Training Area
2007	Exercise Eagle's Breach 16 Air Assault Brigade Engineers—Collective Training 1/2	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	HMS Ark Royal Basic Operational Sea Training—deck landings	Sea Trials
2007	Exercise Eagle's Flight - 16 Air Assault Brigade—air skill training—Collective Training 1/2	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	Exercise Eagle's Sapper —16 Air Assault Brigade Engineers—Collective Training 3	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	Exercise Hawk Owl 07—Qualified Helicopter Tactics Instructor—individual pilot training	Scotland
2007	Exercise Cock Feather—51 Brigade—air skills training	Scotland
2007	Exercise Grey Heron—FLEET logistics exercise	UK waters
2007	Exercise Eagle's Resolve—7 Royal Horse Artillery—Collective Training 3	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	Exercise Whirling Rhino—1 Division—air skills training	Germany
2007	Exercise Jebel Sahara—individual pilot training	Morocco
2007	Exercise Eagle's Eye—16 Air Assault Brigade—Airborne Task Force validation	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	Exercise Tusker Challenge—individual pilot training	UK and Cyprus
2007	Exercise Blue Marauder— Airborne Task Force—build up training	Salisbury Plain Training Area

	Exercise d etails - Apache only	Location
2005	Exercise Lightning Hurdle—Attack Helicopter—Conversion to Role 2	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2005	Exercise Lightening Dawn—Attack Helicopter—Conversion to Role 3	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2006	Exercise Crimson Eagle—Attack Helicopter -Pre-deployment and environmental training	Arizona
2007	Exercise Crimson Eagle—Attack Helicopter—Environmental training and fire support team training	Arizona

In compiling this information, an error was identified in my answer, which covered the number of collective training exercises supported by both helicopters, whereby Exercise Herrick Eagle 2006 and Exercise Eagle's Eye 2007 were included in error as they were only supported by Chinook. In addition the following three exercises were inadvertently omitted from the information provided previously.

	Exercise details involving both Chinook and Apache	Location
2006	Exercise Southern Dawn—3 Commando Brigade—Mission Rehearsal Exercise	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	Exercise Rosedale—201 Field Hospital Incident Response Team	Salisbury Plain Training Area
2007	Exercise Kush Dragon 52 Brigade Op Herrick—pre-deployment training	Salisbury Plain Training Area

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