Question: Who is supported by civilian, scientific, and professional military advisors?
Answer: The Ministers and Chiefs of the Defence Staff

Question: What is the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence generally known as?
Answer: Permanent Secretary

Question: Where does the Permanent Secretary serve as the senior civil servant?
Answer: MoD

Question: What is the role of the Permanent Secretary?
Answer: to ensure the MoD operates effectively as a department of the government

Question: What is the name of the person who is the current Chief of the Defence Staff?
Answer: General Sir Nicholas Houghton

Question: Who is the professional head of the British Armed Forces?
Answer: Chief of the Defence Staff

Question: The professional heads of what three services support the Chief of the Defence Staff?
Answer: HM Armed Forces

Question: Which person in the Joint Forces Command supports the Chief of the Defence Staff?
Answer: the Commander

Question: How many Deputy Chiefs of the Defence Staff are there?
Answer: three

Question: What are the three Deputy Chiefs of the Defence Staff?
Answer: Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Capability), Deputy CDS (Personnel and Training) and Deputy CDS (Operations)

Question: Who represents the Defence Medical Services on the Defence Staff?
Answer: The Surgeon General

Question: Who leads the Defence Medical Services?
Answer: The Surgeon General

Question: One of the Assistant Chiefs of the Defence Staff is for Reserves and what?
Answer: Cadets

Question: The Personnel Chief is also known as what?
Answer: the Defence Services Secretary in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom

Question: There is a Defence Services Secretary in the Royal Household of the what?
Answer: Sovereign

Question: Who are two of the Assistant Chiefs of the Defence Staff?
Answer: Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves and Cadets) and the Defence Services Secretary in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom

Question: In what year was there a Strategic Defence Review?
Answer: 1998

Question: What paper was published in 2003?
Answer: Delivering Security in a Changing World White Paper

Question: Which part of the Britsh government were the two publications listed concerning?
Answer: British Armed Forces

Question: In what concept is the MoD considered a leader?
Answer: defence diplomacy

Question: Who was the PM of Britain in 2010?
Answer: David Cameron

Question: Who was the president of France in 2010?
Answer: Nicolas Sarkozy

Question: In which two countries is the UK installing military bases?
Answer: UAE and Bahrain

Question: In which other country is the UK thinking about installing a military base?
Answer: Oman

Question: How much was the investment in new equipment and capabilities worth?
Answer: £178 billion

Question: In which year was a £178 billion investment made?
Answer: 2015

Question: How many primary missions were included in the 2015 Review?
Answer: four

Question: What is the name of the yearly statement released by the MoD?
Answer: The Strategic Defence and Security Review

Question: What was the new threat that arose after the end of the Cold War?
Answer: terrorism

Question: Military spending that is based on conventional threats has been dismissed as what?
Answer: Cold War mentality

Question: How much of the MoD's equipment budget is invested in the "land environment"?
Answer: 10%

Question: Where was Britain involved in a land war when some thought that land wars were basically a thing of the past?
Answer: Afghanistan and Iraq

Question: Which years make up the time span mentioned for the military budget numbers?
Answer: 2003 and 2018

Question: Who was the Chief of Defence Materiel in 2009?
Answer: General Sir Kevin O’Donoghue

Question: Which department is overseen by the Chief of Defence Materiel?
Answer: Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)

Question: Which programme was mentioned as being underfunded?
Answer: Equipment Programme

Question: Who was the Secretary of State for Defence in 2009?
Answer: Bob Ainsworth MP

Question: Which publication said the 2009 defence budget was more than 10% overbudget?
Answer: London Evening Standard

Question: How much land is owned by the MoD?
Answer: 227,300 hectares

Question: How much is the land owned by the MoD worth?
Answer: £20 billion

Question: The MoD owns or has rights of access to what percentage of the UK's total land?
Answer: 1.8%

Question: How much is the annual cost to support the defence estate?
Answer: in excess of £3.3 billion

Question: Who is one of the largest landowners in the UK?
Answer: The Ministry of Defence

Question: What percentage of the defence estate makes up training areas and ranges?
Answer: 84.0%

Question: What makes up the smallest portion of the defence estate?
Answer: storage & supply depots

Question: What percentage of the defence estate is taken up by airfields?
Answer: (3.4%

Question: Who manages the defence estate?
Answer: Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Question: Barracks and camps are what percentage of the defence estate?
Answer: (2.5%

Question: In what city are the headquarters of the MoD?
Answer: Whitehall

Question: Who designed the headquarters of the MoD?
Answer: Vincent Harris

Question: Who designed the statues that are on either side of the northern entrance to the MoD headquarters?
Answer: Charles Wheeler

Question: What is the headquarters of the MoD called?
Answer: Main Building

Question: Who made the Gurkha Monument?
Answer: Philip Jackson

Question: Who had a wine cellar at the Palace of Whitehall?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: Where is Henry VIII's wine cellar?
Answer: the basement of Main Building

Question: When was the cellar in the basement of Main Building built?
Answer: 1514–1516

Question: What is the main material used to build the cellar in the basement of Main Building?
Answer: brick

Question: When was the cellar relocated?
Answer: 1949

Question: Who in the MoD was convicted of fraud?
Answer: Gordon Foxley

Question: What position was held by Foxley?
Answer: head of defence procurement

Question: What years was Foxley employed by the MoD?
Answer: 1981 to 1984

Question: How much money was Foxley accused of taking?
Answer: at least £3.5m

Question: What do the police believe the bribes were intended to do?
Answer: influence the allocation of contracts

Question: What publication released a report about the Ministry of Defence in 2002?
Answer: the Guardian

Question: What was the MoD accused of doing to the public?
Answer: secret germ warfare tests

Question: What are the children of some families in the area of the testing experiencing?
Answer: children with birth defects and physical and mental handicaps

Question: When was the supposed germ warfare testing taking place?
Answer: between 1940 and 1979

Question: When were millions of people supposedly exposed to e. coli and an anthrax-like bacteria?
Answer: between 1961 and 1968

Question: How much did the MoD spend on Chinook helicopters?
Answer: £240m

Question: When were the helicopters ordered?
Answer: 1995

Question: Which office reported that the helicopters were being stored, rather than used?
Answer: National Audit Office

Question: In what year were the helicopters brought into service?
Answer: 2010

Question: What is the estimated total cost of the Chinook helicopter project?
Answer: £500m

Question: Which aircraft manufacturer got a contract with the MoD?
Answer: Boeing

Question: When was the Boeing contract signed?
Answer: April 2008

Question: Who is downgrading the Chinook helicopters?
Answer: QinetiQ

Question: How much was the Boeing contract worth?
Answer: £90m

Question: What was removed from the Chinook helicopters?
Answer: more advanced equipment

Question: When was the TA budget withdrawn?
Answer: October 2009

Question: How much money was allocated to the volunteer Territorial Army?
Answer: £20m