No Military Academy at St Athan: package 1

Thursday, 31 January 2008

Half St Athan package ditched

Plans for £15bn St Athan academy are hit
ic Wales, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago
PART of a huge £15bn defence training academy ear-marked for St. Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan is being ditched The two-part project would have seen all UK ...

Base loses some defence training
BBC News, UK - 5 hours ago
Plans to relocate some defence training to St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan have been dropped, the UK Government has announced. Ministers say the private ...

Monday, 26 November 2007

Affordability gap for St Athan Package 2!

Chosen

DEFENCE UNDER Secretary Derek Twigg told Parliament that the Metrix Consortium has been declared the preferred bidder
for package 1 of the defence training review programme. “For package 2,” he said, “there is a significant affordability gap and work has been ongoing to develop a whole programme solution.

“The scale of the facility to be constructed at St Athan will therefore depend on the outcome of this further work
with Metrix.”

Preview - August 2007

Defence training centre may ditch private finance Public Private Finance
The big sell off!

Hyperinflated Job Figures - so HOW many jobs?

StAthan development brief by Merix,WAG & Vale of Glamorgan

Military Bases: Wales How many jobs? Twigg won't say!

All Written Answers on 10 Jul 2007

John Smith (Vale of Glamorgan, Labour) | Hansard source

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) military and (b) civilian personnel he expects will be based at MOD St. Athan when the new military academy is complete.

Derek Twigg (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence) | Hansard source

The scale of the facility to be constructed at St. Athan is dependent upon the outcome of further work with the Metrix Consortium which is exploring the possibility of a Whole Programme Solution.

What is the timetable for construction at St Athans

Derek Twigg (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence) Our current forecast indicates that construction at the St. Athan site is planned to start after contract signature in late 2008, or early 2009, with the final phase of completion scheduled for 2013.
....good progress has been made and negotiations with Metrix are ongoing. As part of this work the Department is working with officials of the Welsh Assembly Government to confirm the most suitable master plan for the St. Athan site. However, until this work is concluded a date for submission of a planning application for the Defence Training Establishment cannot be finalised. An announcement on a WPS, however, is expected to be made later this year. Jun 07

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Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the progress of negotiations with the Metrix Consortium on Package 2 for the Defence Training Review.

Written Answers — Defence: Military Bases: Wales (19 Jul 2007)
Derek Twigg: Metrix Consortium have been declared the preferred bidder for package 1 of the Defence training review programme. For package 2 there is a significant affordability gap and work has been ongoing to develop a whole programme solution. The scale of the facility to be constructed at St. Athan will therefore depend on the outcome of this further work with Metrix. Our current forecast indicates...
Written Answers — Defence: Military Bases: Wales (11 Jul 2007)
Derek Twigg: Metrix UK meets regularly with members of the Welsh Assembly Government, Community Councils (Llantwit Major, St. Athan, Llanmaes, Llandow, St. Bride's, Ewenny, Wick, Llangan and St. Donat), local (South Wales) business leaders, leaders of all the main parties represented in the National Assembly.
Written Answers — Defence: Military Bases: Wales (11 Jul 2007)
Derek Twigg: Negotiations are under way between the Welsh Assembly Government, MOD and Metrix to formulate an agreement which will include access arrangements for the Aerospace Business Park and the proposed Defence Training Academy.

Written Answers — Defence: RAF St Athan (4 Jun 2007)
Madeleine Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent progress has been made on agreements between his Department, Metrix and the National Assembly for Wales in relation to (a) the final package of proposals for the St. Athan site and (b) a date for the submission of a planning application for the Defence Training Establishment; and if he will make a statement.
Point of Order: Welsh Affairs (1 Mar 2007)
Wayne David: ...the fact that we received objective 1 status a few years ago, which was worth £1.3 billion, but the figure for St. Athan is £16 billion, which shows how important the contract won by the Metrix consortium is for the economy of the whole of south Wales—indeed for the whole of Wales, as has been said. There is one question that I particularly want to ask today: how did that...
Written Answers — Defence: Defence Training Review (21 Feb 2007)
Derek Twigg: ...have been received from bidding consortia for two distinct packages of training delivery which would operate under a Public Private Partnership arrangement. ...
Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Training (16 Feb 2007)
Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what the key reasons were for his Department's decision to choose the Metrix consortium's bid for (a) package 1 and (b) package 2 for the Defence Training Review Rationalisation Programme; ...
Written Answers — Defence: Armed Forces: Training (16 Feb 2007)
Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence by how much the Metrix consortium's current proposals for (a) package 1 and (b) package 2 for the Defence Training Review Rationalisation Programme has exceeded the planned budget for the programme.
Points of Order: Defence in the World (1 Feb 2007)

Written Answers — Defence: Defence Training Review (29 Jan 2007)
Derek Twigg: .. Metrix was selected as the preferred bidder for DTR Package 1 and provisional preferred bidder for DTR Package 2. Their solution, examined against 65 individual requirements of response, represented the most economically advantageous...
Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Defence Training Review (17 Jan 2007)
Des Browne: ... the bids from the Metrix consortium have been judged to offer the best technical and prospective value-for-money solutions to the defence training review requirement for both packages 1 and 2. As a result, we are...
Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: RAF St. Athan (17 Jan 2007)
Nick Ainger: ...Athan bid is successful, it will have a substantial impact on Wales. We are talking about more than 5,000 jobs coming to Wales and an investment of £14 billion. If the bid is successful for the Metrix consortium, it will be evidence of the private and public sectors in Wales working together and coming forward with a world-beating bid to provide excellent training facilities for our...
Written Answers — Defence: QinetiQ (19 Oct 2006)
Mike Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost has been to date of QinetiQ's equity investment in the Metrix consortium; what the maximum investment will be; and whether QinetiQ sought the Government's approval for such an investment.
Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Economic Inactivity (22 Mar 2006)
Chris Bryant: ...years, with more people in work than ever before and a very highly skilled work force ready to do more. My right hon. Friend was unfortunately unable to attend Monday afternoon's launch of the Metrix bid to set up a defence training academy at St. Athan, which would be the biggest ever investment in the Welsh economy. However, does he agree that attracting that investment to south Wales...
Defence Procurement (2 Feb 2006)
John Smith: .... I believe that the bid by Metrix Ltd. at St. Athan meets those requirements, but I am not making a special plea. I am asking the Government, when considering contracts that are so important for the future needs of our...
Oral Answers to Questions — Wales: Defence Aviation Repair Agency (18 Jan 2006)
Peter Hain: ...for Defence and his team will ensure that the decision is made on merit. St. Athan offers an excellent solution as the location for the defence training review. One of the bidding consortiums, Metrix, has made St. Athan a major element of its bid, which has my support and that of the Welsh Assembly Government. I am sure that that bid will be considered on its merits, which are...

No Military Academy at St Athan

Thursday, 31 January 2008

Half St Athan package ditched

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Affordability gap for St Athan Package 2!

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