Written question asked by Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 18 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 March 2010. It was answered by Lord Beamish (Labour) on Monday, 29 March 2010 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Departmental Security

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence to employees of which private defence companies have civilian passes granting access to his Department's London buildings been issued since 1 January 2008.

Answer: Since 1 January 2008, building passes have been issued to employees of the private defence companies as listed. We have defined private defence companies as those we can readily identify as being primarily suppliers of weapon systems or defence materiel to the Department."Augusta Westland""Babcock""BAE Systems""Boeing Defence UK""Cubic Defence Systems""EADS Defence and Security System""General Dynamics UK""J&S Marine""Lockheed Martin""MBDA Missile Systems""Niteworks""Northrop Grumman""Pearson Engineering""QinetiQ""Raytheon Systems""Roke Manor Research""Smiths Detection""Thales""Vega Group""Vosper Thornycroft"These passes only allow access to Ministry of Defence Head Office (Main Building, Old War Office and St. George's Court) and are issued to individuals who hold appropriate security clearances, have a genuine business need to regularly visit one of these London Offices and have been sponsored by a Head Office Business Unit. Details are not held centrally for passes issued in respect of other MOD London buildings.

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