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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many people worked for the British Forces Post Office on (a) 1 January and (b) 1 January 2004; how many were employed in Scotland in each case; and what the personnel costs of the agency (i) are in 2004-05 and (ii) will be in 2005-06. [215429] (2) how much of its personnel budget for financial years (a) 2001-02, (b) 2000-01, (c) 1999-2000, (d) 1998-99 and (e) 1997-98 the British Forces Post Office spent in Scotland in (i) monetary terms and (ii) as a percentage of the total personnel budget for that year; how many personnel were employed in Scotland; and if he will make a statement. [217965] Mr. Caplin: The information is as follows: Staff employed by British Forces Post Office Number _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Agency totals Employed in Scotland January 2004 January 2005 January 2004 January 2005 Civilian personnel 360 330 10 10 Service personnel 210 200 0 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. This table uses the revised definition of civilian personnel (see www.dasa.mod.uk for details). 2. The figures shown are full-time equivalents. 3. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 4. Details of civilian personnel in Defence Agencies and MoD owned trading funds by UK country can be found in UKDS 2004 Table 2.36, available in the House of Commons Library Both civilian and service personnel data by Agency are collated annually at 1 April and presented in Table 2.6 of UK Defence Statistics, a copy of which is held in the Library of the House. Further information on personnel figures is available on the DASA website at www.dasa.mod.uk The number of service personnel employed by Agency and location is not collated centrally. However, locally held records indicate that no service personnel have been employed in Scotland. A table showing numbers of civilian personnel by MoD Agency, for the Agency as a total and those employed in Scotland specifically, for the period 1 April 1997 to 1 January 2005, has also been published on the Defence Analytical Services Agency website, www.dasa.mod.uk, and is also lodged in the Library of the House. The civilian workforce numbers have been collated from centrally held records and may be different to locally produced numbers. However, all numbers in the table are produced using the agreed standard definition of civilian workforce, in full-time equivalent terms (part-time staff are counted only in proportion to the number of hours worked compared to the normal full-time hours) and are rounded to the nearest 10 to preserve confidentiality. Data on projected personnel costs for 2004-05 and 2005-06 are not currently available.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1728W;432 c1723-4W; 215429;217965

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Armed forces Costs Expenditure Staff Postal services Scotland British Forces Post Office

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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