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Armed Forces: Vehicles

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been allocated to urgent operational requirement spending on vehicles since 1997. [218490]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which armoured vehicles procured since 1997 have been paid for out of (a) planned budgetary provision and (b) urgent operational requirements provision. [218489]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Since 1997 Viking, Panther, Vector, Titan, Trojan, Beach Recovery Vehicle, Challenger II and Challenger II Driver Training tanks have been paid for out of planned budgetary provision. Mastiff vehicles and ambulances and Vector ambulances were procured as Urgent Operational Requirements.

Departmental ICT

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) mobile telephones, (b) personal digital assistants and (c) laptop computers issued to departmental staff were reported (i) lost, (ii) missing and (iii) stolen in each year since 2001. [184322]

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many universal serial bus flash memory data storage devices used to store (a) restricted, (b) confidential, (c) secret and (d) top secret data have been lost by or stolen from his Department in each year since 2001. [186051]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: As a result of the recent theft of a laptop, the Ministry of Defence has initiated an investigation into the details of all lost or stolen electronic media since 2003. This investigation involves the collation and examination of reports from across the Department including final disposal action, where available. While every effort is being made to gather the information as quickly and accurately as possible, not all the details are currently available. In addition, it should be noted that details of such incidents were not collated centrally before 2003 and therefore will not be available.

I will write to the hon. Members when the information has been collated and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.

Substantive answer from Bob Ainsworth to Sarah Teather and Liam Fox:


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Unclassified/none Restricted Confidential Secret Top secret Not determined Total

2003

Loss

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Stolen

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2004

Loss

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Stolen

24

1

0

0

0

2

27

2005

Loss

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Stolen

1

0

0

0

0

1

2

2006

Loss

0

0

1

1

0

0

2

Stolen

2

52

0

0

0

2

56

2007

Loss

0

6

0

1

0

0

7

Stolen

0

1

0

0

0

0

1

2008(1)

Loss

1

19

0

3

0

0

23

Stolen

1

2

0

0

0

0

3

(1) Up to 25 June 2008.

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his Department’s personal digital assistants have been (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last five years; and what the value of those items was. [185276]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth: As a result of the recent theft of a laptop, the Ministry of Defence has initiated an investigation into the details of all lost or stolen electronic media, including PDAs, since 2003. This process involves examining and collating reports from across the Ministry of Defence including final disposal action.

While every effort is being made to gather the information expeditiously, not all the details are presently available.

I will write to the hon. Member when the information is available and arrange for a copy to be placed in the Library of the House

Substantive answer from Bob Ainsworth to Mark Hoban:

PDAs

Lost Stolen

2003

0

1

2004

1

2

2005

1

1

2006

1

1

2007

1

2

2008 (up to 25 June 2008)

0

1

Total value (£)

3,000


EU Defence Policy

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2008, Official Report, column 721W, on EU defence policy, how many of the UK military staff worked (a) exclusively on European Union matters and (b) on both NATO and UK military staff European Union matters in each month since September 2007; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the full description of each post identified. [217488]

Des Browne: All UK military personnel seconded to the EU Military Staff work exclusively on European Union matters.

Job titles and descriptions for the posts currently filled by UK military personnel and MOD civilian staff attached to the European Union Military Staff (EUMS), European Union Military Committee (EUMC) and other EU institutions are as follows:

EU military staff


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