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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Annabelle Ewing: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many, and what percentage, of (a) civil service, (b) executive agencies and (c) non- departmental public body jobs under the remit of his Department are located in Scotland; and how many of each have been relocated to Scotland since May 1997. [83580] Dr. Moonie: The information for the civil servants and the executive agencies is shown below as at October 2002 and April 1997 (closest data available to May 1997). The non-departmental public bodies data is shown as at October 2002 and April 1998 (closest data available to May 1997). Information on relocations is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. (FTE) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Executive Agencies1 Civil Servants2 Non departmental public bodies3 April 1997 October 2002 April 1997 October 2002 April 1998 October 2002 Scotland 6,401 5,296 3,223 3,148 0 0 Not Scotland 54,649 43,436 42,611 35,038 344 387 Total 61,050 48,732 45,834 38,186 344 387 Percentage Scotland 10.5 10.9 7.0 8.2 0.0 0.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1 The Ministry of Defence does not centrally hold information on the number of jobs or posts within its organisation and the equivalent number of people is shown as the nearest comparator. 2 Figures include foil time equivalent numbers for individuals working part time. 3 Figures are individually rounded and may not sum precisely to the totals shown.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

83580; 395 c328W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Executive agencies Government departments Location Non-departmental public bodies Ministry of Defence Scotland

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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