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Civilian-Military Cell, Civilian/Military Strategic Planning Branch—Staff Officer: Contributes to the military input to strategic civilian/military contingency planning, the development of concepts and doctrines for civilian/military operations and the process of strategic crisis response planning for EU-led crisis management operations.
Civilian-Military Cell, Military Assessment and Planning (MAP) Branch—Staff Officer: Contributes to the military assessment of potential or emerging crisis situations and military strategic advance and crisis response planning.
Communication and Information Systems (CIS) Division, Policy and Requirements Branch—Staff Officer: Contributes to the formulation of CIS policy, plans and requirements in co-ordination with member states, NATO and other international organisations.
Communication and Information Systems Division, Policy and Requirements Branch—Staff Officer: Contributes to the formulation of all geographic aspects, planning, requirements, procedures and support for military strategic options envisaged for EU-led operations and exercises.
Communication and Information System Division, Information Technology and Security (ITS) Branch—Staff Officer: Administrator of the secure networks and links in close co-ordination with the INFOSEC office of the General Secretariat of the Council, and a member of the Security Accreditation Team for EUMS secure systems.
DGEUMS’ Personal Staff—Adjoint Assistant: Responsible for providing personal administrative assistance to DGEUMS in his daily work.
DGEUMS’ Personal Staff—Personal Staff Co-ordinator: Responsible for assisting DGEUMS in his daily work.
Military Assistant to the Chairman of the EU Military Committee (CEUMC): Responsible for the provision of written/oral briefings and advice to CEUMC.
Capabilities Director: Responsible for the leading of agency work in ESDP activities related to capabilities development, from goal definition to project design, and including capability harmonisation, assessment and evaluation.
Head of Capabilities Development Support Unit: Supports the Capabilities Director in the co-ordination of the Directorate's work, and in managing external interfaces (with member states, EUMS and other key stakeholders).
Research and Technology (R and T) Assistant Director: Responsible for preparing strategies and policies for increasing co-operation and strengthening of defence R and T and the European defence technological and industrial base.
Principal Officer for Armaments Co-operation: Responsible for supporting the Armaments Director in his relations with OCCAR (Organisation conjointe de coopération en matière d'armement) and member states regarding the management of co-operative programs.
Senior Officer for Defence Market: Responsible for assessing and analysing the European Defence Equipment Market including collecting, comparing and reporting quantitative and qualitative data, and ensuring close relations with the Commission, industry and others regarding industrial issues.
Principal Officer for Defence Industry: Responsible for contributing to assessing and analysing the European defence technological and industrial base (DTIB), preparing strategies and policies regarding DTIB and developing measures for enhanced security of supply of Defence goods between European nations.
European Council General Secretariat—Seconded National Expert: Desk officer in DG E VIII—External Relations, responsible for providing advice and briefings on EUFOR ALTHEA (EU military mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina).
European Commission—Seconded National Expert: Desk officer in DG Environment.
European Global Navigation Satellite System Supervisory Authority (GSA)—Seconded National Expert: Security advisor and project officer for the Galileo project.
Iraq: Asylum
Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the protection strategy for the dependants of Iraqi former UK interpreters. [218889]
Des Browne: We have various procedures in place to minimise the risk of interpreters or their dependants being identified as working with British forces. All employees are also advised on fundamental security precautions for their and their families’ safety outside working hours. On leaving our employ, those eligible for the Locally Employed Staff Assistance Scheme can choose to apply for resettlement in the UK with those financially dependent upon them. Alternatively, a financial package is offered to assist their relocation within Iraq or elsewhere in the region. All of these measures are kept under continuous review to ensure they are appropriate for the prevailing security situation.
RAF Halton
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armed forces personnel have received training from the Specialist Training School at RAF Halton in each year since 1998. [217590]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The following table gives the number of the courses delivered by the Specialist Training School (STS) at RAF Halton. Information is only available from financial year 2003-04.
| Financial year | Armed forces personnel |
The figures exclude the ‘road shows’ training delivered by STS staff away from RAF Halton, as no nominal rolls are taken at these events.
Warships
Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the (a) unit cost and (b) date of commissioning of each Type 42 Destroyer was; [218220]
(2) what the (a) unit cost and (b) date of commissioning of (i) HMS Albion and (ii) HMS Bulwark was; [218234]
(3) what the (a) unit cost and (b) date of commissioning of each Type 22 frigate was. [218239]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The hon. Member may find it useful to view the answer given by the then Under-Secretary of State, Defence Procurement to the then hon. Member for Glasgow Govan (Jim Sillars) on 23 October 1989, Official Report, column 358 as it includes information about build costs of various Royal Navy and RFA vessels including the costs for all Type 42 Destroyers and most of the Type 22 Frigates.
Due to the age of the Type 42 Destroyers and the first two batches of Type 22 Frigates, records that would enable a ready estimate today of their cost are no longer held centrally, and to establish those now would incur a disproportionate cost.
The following table shows the original hull costs of the third batch of Type 22 Frigates when they were commissioned—they do not include other costs, such as those for Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)—as they are not held centrally for each ship and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
| Ship | Original cost (£ million) |
The build contract costs, as at 1 June 2004, for the Landing Platform Dock (LPD) vessels HM Ships Albion and Bulwark are shown in the following table and do not include other costs such as GFE.
| Ship | Build cost (£ million) |
The commissioning dates of each of the Type 42 Destroyers, Type 22 Frigates and HM Ships Albion and Bulwark are shown in the following table.
| Ship | Date commissioned |
Duchy of Lancaster
Childbirth
Tim Loughton: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of (a) the percentage of children living in one parent families, (b) the number of live births per thousand teenage women and (c) the percentage of children born outside marriage in the last 10 years for which figures are available, broken down by (i) social class, (ii) income, (iii) race and (iv) geographic location. [216783]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 July 2008:
As the National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question about what estimates are available for (a) the percentage of children living in one parent families, (b) the number of live births per 1,000 teenage women and (c) the percentage of children born outside marriage in the last 10 years for which figures are available, broken down by (i) social class, (ii) income, (iii) race and (iv) geographic location. (216783)
Part (a)—One parent families
The percentage of dependent children living in lone parent families in the United Kingdom can be estimated using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Table 1 (below) shows UK estimates. Estimates broken down by (i) social class, (ii) income, (iii) race and (iv) geographic location are not readily available to answer the question fully for all years and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
| Table 1: Dependent children in the UK | |
| Proportion of dependent children living in lone parent families (percentage) | |
| Source: LFS quarterly data (average of Spring and Autumn seasonal quarters for all years except for 2006 and 2007 where data are for the calendar quarter April to June only). | |
There are two existing pieces of information that provide partial answers to part (a). For social class, data are available for 2001 only.
The proportion of dependent children in households in England and Wales by number of birth parents and the NS-SEC (National Statistics Socio-economic Classification) of the household reference person, according to the 2001 Census are available in the response to a recent parliamentary question by David Laws MP (Hansard 187143: 22 Feb 2008 : Column 1107W). For ethnicity, data are available for 2007 only. Estimates of the proportion of dependent children living in lone parent families in United Kingdom by ethnicity are available for 2007 using the LFS in the response to a parliamentary question by David Laws MP (Hansard 201194: 24th April 2008: Column 2204W).
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