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Wales

Jonathan Edwards: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions with reference to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's announcement of 24 May 2010 and pursuant to the answer of 7 June 2010, Official Report, column 69W, on public expenditure: Wales, if he will provide details of his Department's non-devolved public expenditure savings that will be incurred in Wales, including an estimate of the financial savings. [2939]

Chris Grayling: The requested information is not available due to disproportionate cost.

Defence

Afghanistan: Peacekeeping Operations

Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the doubling of the operational allowance for armed forces personnel serving in Afghanistan is a permanent measure; and to what date the doubling of that allowance will be back-dated. [2777]

Dr Fox: The doubling of operational allowance is a permanent measure and is effective from 6 May 2010. In doing so we have fulfilled a key measure in our coalition programme for government.

Mr Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of doubling the operational allowance for armed forces personnel serving in Afghanistan. [2781]

Dr Fox: The cost of doubling the operational allowance to all those eligible to receive it is £57 million per year, based on current force levels.

Air Misses

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what (a) near misses and (b) dangerous incidents involving military aircraft were reported in each year since 2007. [2618]

Nick Harvey: The number of hazards, observations, near misses and reportable incidents involving military aircraft that have been reported in each year since 2007 are shown in the following tables. They have been broken down by aircraft type. To provide further details of each of these events would, however, incur disproportionate cost.

A new system for capturing all flight safety events across the Defence aviation community, known as the Aviation Safety Information Management System, was introduced in 2009. This improved system has resulted in an increase in reporting.


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Hazards/observations/near misses by aircraft type, 2007-10
Aircraft 2007 2008 2009 2010( 1)

None(2)

0

0

13

46

Alpha Jet

0

0

0

0

Andover

0

0

0

0

Apache

0

0

10

10

Agusta

0

0

3

3

BAE 125

0

0

4

2

BAE 146

0

0

1

1

Bell

0

0

5

1

C17

0

0

10

13

Chinook

0

0

18

11

Defender

0

0

0

4

Desert Hawk

0

0

4

0

Dominie

0

0

1

1

Firefly

0

0

6

0

Gazelle

0

0

2

3

Griffin

0

0

4

5

Harrier

0

0

13

18

Hawk

2

0

11

15

Hercules

0

1

7

16

Hermes

0

0

18

7

Islander

0

0

1

2

Jaguar

0

0

0

0

Jetstream

0

0

0

1

King Air

0

0

6

2

Lynx

1

1

10

7

Merlin

0

0

23

21

Nimrod

0

0

10

1

Other

0

0

6

10

Puma

0

0

20

13

Sea King

2

0

16

19

Sentinel

0

0

1

8

Sentry

0

0

1

7

Squirrel

0

0

3

6

Tornado

0

0

27

41

Tristar

0

0

3

16

Tucano

0

0

11

22

Tutor

0

0

8

9

Typhoon

0

0

5

14

VC10

0

0

9

12

Vigilant

0

0

0

2

Viking

0

0

2

0

Total

5

2

292

369

(1 )Up to and including 31 May 2010.
(2) 'None' covers those incidents where an aircraft was not involved eg during either maintenance of an aircraft component not fitted to an aircraft or involving a piece of Aircraft Ground Support Equipment.

Events in the table above are described as hazards and cover those circumstances which have, or could have, resulted in an occurrence, or could throw light on the cause of an occurrence. An abridged definition of an occurrence is an unplanned event associated with the operation of an aircraft.


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Reportable incidents by military aircraft type, 2007-10
Aircraft 2007 2008 2009 2010( 1)

None(2)

24

71

34

45

Alpha Jet

8

6

4

3

Andover

1

1

1

3

Apache

72

134

125

86

Agusta

8

10

10

15

BAE 125

6

6

2

2

BAE 146

6

2

5

5

Bell

18

43

57

23

C17

36

34

43

25

Chinook

299

310

314

172

Defender

40

32

10

17

Desert Hawk

0

0

71

57

Dominie

22

14

8

7

Firefly

17

15

6

0

Gazelle

44

45

15

12

Griffin

91

67

110

56

Harrier

79

172

219

111

Hawk

294

242

187

119

Hercules

342

329

152

114

Hermes

0

25

21

9

Islander

11

13

15

20

Jaguar

13

2

1

0

Jetstream

11

11

12

2

King Air

21

31

38

17

Lynx

337

470

252

125

Merlin

310

420

557

297

Nimrod

177

122

29

22

Other

16

21

55

18

Puma

113

130

117

57

Reaper

0

9

2

1

Sea King

448

475

441

246

Sentinel

13

17

20

8

Sentry

67

42

22

13

Squirrel

107

84

59

39

Tornado

578

439

344

224

Tristar

79

77

54

27

Tucano

136

156

234

112

Tutor

67

73

92

43

Typhoon

153

187

202

89

VC10

96

93

46

31

Vigilant

23

62

33

24

Viking

13

10

7

16

Total

4,196

4,502

4,026

2,312

(1) Up to and including 31 May 2010.
(2) 'None' covers those incidents where an aircraft was not involved eg during either maintenance of an aircraft component not fitted to an aircraft or involving a piece of Aircraft Ground Support Equipment.

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