Written question asked by Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 11 February 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 14 February 2002. It was answered by Adam Ingram (Labour) on Thursday, 14 February 2002 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Ministry of Defence

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much compensation has been awarded for insufficient workload in each of the last three years to (a) DLM in Devonport, (b) SLM in Portsmouth and (c) BRCD; and if he will make a statement. - Inc figures.

Answer: Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much compensation has been awarded for insufficient work load in each of the last three years to (a) DML in Devonport, (b) SLM in Portsmouth and (c) BRCD; and if he will make a statement. [36300] Mr. Ingram: In the last three years a total of £2.1 million has been paid to the dockyard companies in compensation where they have been unable to otherwise recover overheads due to changes in the naval maintenance programme. Such payments are made only where it has not been possible to reflect the changing work load in the annually agreed charging rates or to mitigate its impact by allocating other work. I am withholding details of individual payments to the companies in accordance with Exemption 7 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information relating to commercial activities.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 36300; 380 c569-70W
Session: 2001-02
Subjects: Contracts Compensation Shipbuilding Devonport Dockyard Rosyth Dockyard Brocade Communications Systems
Contains statistics: Yes
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