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Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made in his Department's negotiations with BVT Shipyards on a terms of business agreement. [284822]
Mr. Quentin Davies: MOD and BVT Surface Fleet Ltd. are working to establish a new long-term incentive based terms of business agreement (TOBA), which is intended to provide MOD with the confidence that industry can deliver significant improvements in efficiency and performance needed to underpin the future programme, while providing industry with the confidence to enable investment and long-term planning. Commercial negotiations with BVT are at an advanced stage.
Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what support his Department is giving to BVT Shipyards to promote its shipbuilding facilities and services in export markets. [284824]
Mr. Quentin Davies: Government support to the export efforts of the UK defence industry, including BVT Surface Fleet Ltd., is led by UKTI. The MOD works closely with UKTI's defence and security organisation on these matters.
Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when representatives of his Department last met representatives of BVT Shipyards; and what was discussed. [284828]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The MOD is BVT Surface Fleet Ltd.'s (BVT) principal customer and has had meetings and discussions with BVT since the inception of the joint venture.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when his Department plans to update its web browsers from Internet Explorer 6. [285018]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently implementing the Defence Information Infrastructure (Future) (DII(F)). DII(F) will, once delivered in full, incorporate around 140,000 terminals supporting some 300,000 users at over 2,000 defence sites worldwide, including on ships and deployed operations. DII currently uses Internet Explorer 6 and at the current time does not have a requirement to move to an updated version.
At the current time, the MOD has various other IT systems, which include closed, isolated and restricted use networks-some of these will necessarily fall outside the scope of DII due to their purpose. The information requested for each of these systems could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what changes have been made to his Department's (a) office equipment and (b) stationery purchasing policy in the last six months. [285309]
Mr. Quentin Davies: None, although we continue to keep our office equipment and stationery purchasing policies under review.
Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his statement of 26 February 2009, who the authors of each of the papers sent to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and the Secretary of State for the Home Department in April 2006 were; and what the subject matter of each paper was. [260500]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 3 March 2009]: These papers were written in the Cabinet Office and provided an update to Ministers, which informed HMG's evidence collection for the ISC's July 2007 Report into Rendition.
Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on his Department's future policy on the Gurkha pension scheme; and if he will make a statement. [285678]
Mr. Kevan Jones: The Department has received representations from Members of both Houses of Parliament in the form of correspondence and parliamentary questions. An early-day motion has also been tabled on the subject. These representations are linked to the British Gurkha Welfare Society's campaign to pay Gurkhas pensions at Armed Forces Pension Scheme rates.
Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the capital cost will be of relocating the Hercules fleet to RAF Brize Norton; and what his latest estimate is of the number of years of revenue savings that cost will equate to. [285419]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The capital cost of relocating the RAF CI30 Hercules fleet from RAF Lyneham to RAF Brize Norton is currently estimated to be approximately £60 million. This figure excludes service accommodation costs which cannot be accurately attributed to the CI30 Hercules fleet as distinct from other units at RAF Brize Norton. This figure should be fully offset by savings in running costs within the first four years.
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) required, (b) actual and (c) fit for duty strength of each rank in the Intelligence Corps has been in each year since 1997. [284539]
Bill Rammell: The Intelligence Corps (Int Corps) consists of a Military Intelligence Brigade that includes three Regular Battalions-1, 2 and 4 Military Intelligence Battalions.
The figures requested are provided in the tables. Due to implementation of the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) system, data from 1 April 2007 are provisional and subject to review.
Required strength | |||||||||||||
January | |||||||||||||
Rank | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
Actual strength | |||||||||||||
April | March | April | |||||||||||
Rank | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
(1) Fewer than five. |
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