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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.
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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