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The net cash requirement (NCR) is the actual money that MOD requests from the Government in order to fund its activities. The NCR takes account of movements in working capital levels (debtors, creditors, stock) while excluding all non-cash costs (e.g. depreciation and cost of capital charges etc.) The term "Department" has been interpreted as the MOD not including its trading fund agencies (i.e. ABRO, DARA, Met Office, DSTL and Hydrographic Office). This aligns with the MOD annual report and accounts.
Departmental Sick Leave
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many days of sick leave were taken by his Department’s employees in each year since 1997. [216696]
Derek Twigg: Sickness absence rates in the MOD for the 12 months ending 31 December 2005, 31 December 2006, 31 December 2007 and 31 March 2008 are shown in the following table.
| Sickness absence rates by year ending | |||
| FTE rates | |||
| Industrial | Non-industrial | Total | |
| Notes: 1. Data exclude staff in trading funds, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and locally engaged civilians for whom sickness absence data are not readily available. 2. Data presented reflect the current Cabinet Office definition, setting a maximum absence of 225 days per person, and excludes data for weekends, annual leave and bank holidays. 3. Rates are calculated by dividing the total working days lost for each period by a weighted 13 month average for the period listed with the first and last month receiving a weighting of 0.5, and all other months a weighting of 1. | |||
Information prior to the 12 months ending 31 December 2005 is compiled on a previous definition for monitoring sickness absence which is incomparable with figures for 1 January to 31 December 2005 onwards.
Departmental Trade Unions
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which trades unions represent members of staff in (a) his Department and (b) its agencies. [212486]
Derek Twigg: The MOD currently recognises the following trade unions and staff associations which represent staff in a wide range of grades, trades and professions:
FDA
Prospect
PCS (Public and Commercial Services Union)
Unite (Amicus Section)
Unite (Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) Section)
GMB (General and Municipal Boilermakers)
UCATT (Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians)
CPOA (Chief Police Officers Association)
DPF (Defence Police Federation)
ROA (Retired Officers Association)
Nautilus UK
RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers)
Medical Gr ades and Civilian Practitioners
BMA (British Medical Association)
ATL (The Association of Teachers and Lecturers)
NAHT (National Association of Head Teachers)
NASUWT (The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers)
NUT (National Union of Teachers)
ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders (Formerly Secondary Heads of Association (SHA))
Locally Engaged Civilians Overseas
Ver.di (Vereinigte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft)
Unite (TGWU Section)
Unite (TGWU Section)-ACTSS (Association of Clerical Technical and Supervisory Staff)
Prospect-GGCA (Gibraltar General and Clerical Association)
Gibraltar Services Police Staff Association
SEK (Federation of Government, Military and Civil Service Workers)
PEO (Pan Cyprian Federation of Labour—Government/Military and Social Institute Servants)
PASYDY (Pancyprian Public Servants' Trade Union)
TURKSAE (Cyprus Turkish Military Employee Trade Union)
SBA (Sovereign Bases Abroad) Police Association
Hydrographic Meteorological and Oceanographic Training Group
Linda Gilroy: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) Royal Naval personnel and (b) civilian staff are employed by the Hydrographic, Meteorological and Oceanographic Training Group. [219460]
Derek Twigg [holding answer 17 July 2008]: The Hydrographic, Meteorological and Oceanographic (HM) Training Group came under the Flag Officer Sea Training (South) command in April 2008 and at this time was renamed FOST HM. It currently employs 21 Royal Navy personnel and no civil servants.
Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Snatch Landrovers have been blown up in (a) Iraq and (b) Afghanistan since 2003; and what the date of each incident was. [218443]
Des Browne: I am withholding the information as its disclosure would, or would be likely to prejudice the capability, effectiveness or security of our armed forces.
Lost Working Days
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many working days have been lost due to industrial action by employees for which his Department is responsible in each year since 1997. [218050]
Derek Twigg: 11,873 working days were lost as a result of strike action in the MOD, its agencies and non-departmental bodies; in the period 1997 to 2008, broken down as follows:
| Days | |
Industrial action short of a strike is not recorded in terms of working days lost.
The MOD is committed to working in partnership with its trade unions and makes every effort to avert industrial action of any kind.
Military Bases
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many break-ins were reported at UK military facilities in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [206223]
Derek Twigg: The numbers of break-ins reported to the Ministry of Defence police at UK military facilities in each of the last 10 years are shown in the following table.
For the purpose of this answer we have defined break-ins at UK military facilities as all reported instances of burglary and trespassing at MOD establishments.
| Burglaries | Trespass | |
| (1 )Up to l5 May 2008. (2 )Up to 12 June 2008. | ||
Navy, Army and Air Force Institute
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the (a) turnover and (b) profit of Navy, Army and Air Force Institute, Germany was in each year since 2005; [220670]
(2) if he will place in the Library a copy of the most recent Navy, Army and Air Force Institute annual report and accounts. [220671]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Navy Army and Airforce Institute is a separate legal entity to MOD, and a company limited by guarantee. Details of its annual accounts including turnover and profit can be obtained on request from Companies House in the usual way.
Trident: Scotland
Ms Katy Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the number of civilian jobs in Scotland dependent on the Trident programme; what the locations are of those jobs; and how many there are at each site. [219728]
Des Browne: The latest available figure for civilian jobs that directly rely upon the Trident programme in Scotland is 859, as at December 2006. It was estimated at that point that there were a further 250 indirect civilian jobs based on employment relating to support activities to the Trident programme.
The 859 direct jobs are broken down by location as follows:
| Location | Number |
Work and Pensions
Backdated Benefits
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment his Department has made (1) of the effect on levels of (a) child poverty and (b) pensioner poverty of the Department's proposals to reduce the backdating period for council tax benefit; and if he will make a statement; [219203]
(2) what assessment his Department has made of the likely effect of its proposals to reduce the backdating period for housing benefit on levels of (a) homelessness, (b) child poverty and (c) pensioner poverty; and if he will make a statement. [219269]
Mr. Plaskitt: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave to the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Danny Alexander) on 24 April 2008, Official Report, columns 2173-74W.
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