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Mr. Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the latest total manning figures are for (a) the Territorial Army, (b) the Royal Naval Reserve, (c) the Royal Marines Reserves and (d) the Royal Auxiliary Air Force; and how many personnel from each category have been mobilised in total for Operations (i) Herrick and (ii) Telic. [214782]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth [holding answer 3 July 2008]: The information is as follows:
| Latest available manning figures for the volunteer reserves | |
| Number | |
| (1 )More accurate data is not currently available for the TA. | |
| Number of mobilisations( 1) for operations( 2) since 2004 (previous figures not available) | |
| Number | |
| (1 )This includes a number of personnel who have been mobilised more than once; more than 2,000 personnel have been mobilised more than once, the vast majority of these being specialists mobilised for periods of three months or less. (2 )It is not always possible to separately identify those mobilised for Op Telic in Iraq, or Op Herrick, in Afghanistan. Once mobilised, Reservists may serve in more than one operational theatre, and many support all operations from bases in the UK and elsewhere. | |
Armed Forces: Pay
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was spent on the operational allowance during the last six month roulement. [216239]
Derek Twigg: The amount spent on operational allowance for the major roulements completed during the last six months in Iraq and Afghanistan was £22,668,886.
Armed Forces: Psychology
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many (a) uniformed and (b) civilian unfilled posts there were in the (i) Army, (ii) Royal Air Force and (iii) Royal Navy for (1) clinical psychologists, (2) psychiatrists and (3) psychiatric nurses at the most recent date for which figures are available; [182410]
(2) how many (a) uniformed and (b) civilian posts in each of the armed forces for (i) clinical psychologists, (ii) psychiatrists and (iii) psychiatric nurses are vacant. [182411]
Derek Twigg: The following table shows the unfilled vacancies in each of the areas requested, as of April 2008.
| Clinical psychologists( 1) | Psychiatrists | Psychiatric nurses | |
| (1) The MOD has assessed that there is no requirement to employ uniformed clinical psychologists. | |||
Armed Forces: Surveys
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library copies of the most recent service Continuous Attitude Surveys. [216237]
Derek Twigg: The most recent Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey is currently in the process of being finalised and will be placed in the Library of the House and on the MOD Freedom of Information website in due course.
Armed Forces: Training
Dr. Fox:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2008, Official
Report, column 1519W, on armed forces training, what proportion of Operational Training undertaken by all members of the Army prior to deployment to Afghanistan takes place on Fighting in Built-Up Areas facilities. [217032]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The information requested is not held centrally.
The use made of these facilities during pre-deployment training depends on the particular Arm and specialist skills of the units in question, the amount of experience they already have of being deployed to built-up environments similar to those that will be encountered on the deployment and the nature of the operational tasks that they will carry out in theatre.
Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Cougar vehicles delivered to the UK for Mastiff tranche two have been uparmoured; and how many remain to be uparmoured. [216246]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The first vehicles arrived in the UK on 1 July 2008. None have been uparmoured as yet but the intention is that all 174 Cougar vehicles procured for the MASTIFF 2 programme will be.
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made on the reconnaissance variant of the Future Rapid Effects System; and if he will make a statement. [216256]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth:
Good progress has been made on the assessment of the reconnaissance family which is one of the specialist vehicle families within the Future Rapid Effect System (FRES). Following the placement of a number of scoping studies with industry at the end
of last year, we have recently commenced a specialist vehicle assessment phase to determine the optimum mix of performance, time, cost and risk involved in delivering the specialist vehicle capability. The assessment phase includes the placement of further study contracts with industry.
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many M-WMIKS vehicles were ordered in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008; and how many of these (i) have been delivered to Afghanistan and (ii) will be ready for delivery within (A) three months and (B) six months. [216518]
Des Browne: A total of 130 and 72 Jackal (M-WMIK) vehicles were ordered in 2007 and 2008 respectively. Delivery of all these vehicles is expected to be complete by the end of 2008. However I am withholding information on the specific numbers delivered to Afghanistan as this could prejudice operational security.
Cadets: Schools
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the average cost was of (a) setting up and (b) running a combined cadet force in its first year in a state school as part of his Department's pilot project. [214359]
Derek Twigg: The MOD departmental three year pilot trial of six new CCF's, involves the following schools:
Archers Court maths and technology college, Dover,
Budmouth technical college, Weymouth,
Thomas Deacon academy, Peterborough,
Treorchy comprehensive school, Mid Glamorgan,
Haberdasher's Federation (Hatcham Knight academy), Lewisham,
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