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Ministry of Defence

Answer

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the customers of the Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency; and what the funded and agreed customer taskings set for the financial year 2004-05 are. [191669] Mr. Caplin: For ease of visibility, the customers of the Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) and those of the Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) are shown separately. Internal MDP customers are as follows: Top Level Budgets (TLBs) Defence Logistics Organisation Defence Procurement Agency Commander-in-Chief Land Command (CinC Land) Adjutant General RAF including Strike Command and Personnel Training Command (STC and PTC) Navy including 2nd Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CinC Fleet) Centre Top Level Budget (CTLB) Trading Fund Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). MDP External customers are as follows: United States Visiting Forces (USVF) Royal Mint QinetiQ Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The tasking and funding agreements for MDP internal customers are laid out in Customer Supplier Agreements that both parties sign. External customer agreements are in the form of Memorandum of Understanding, Protocols, Contracts and Service Level Agreements. The outputs of the MDP are the provision of Armed Security, Uniformed Policing and the Investigation of Serious Crime. Each negotiated agreement describes the degree and detail of the outputs required for each customer. The following Customer Supplier Agreements/ Protocol Documents have been signed: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Cost (£ million) DLO 60.379 CinCLAND 2.872 Adjutant General 1.236 RAF PTC 0.195 RAF STC 6.68 Navy 2nd Sea Lord and CinC Fleet 3.105 Centre TLB 6.979 Dstl 1-- Royal Mint 1-- FCO 2-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Commercial in confidence 2 Variable MDP costs that can be reclaimed The following Customer Supplier Agreements/ Memorandum of Understanding have not yet been signed--the value of each unsigned agreement is also indicated where appropriate: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Value to MDP (£ million) DLO 19.876 DPA 3.799 QinetiQ 1-- USVF 2-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Commercial in confidence 2 Subject of a Memorandum of Understanding in which actual monies are reclaimed Please note that MDP service to the Atomic Weapons Establishment is not a repayment task to MDP. MDP is voted this money as part of its annual budget, the contractor does not pay this cost. The Ministry of Defence Guard Service (MGS) provides unarmed guards to each of the Ministry of Defence's Top Level Budgets (TLBs) and Trading Funds (TFs). The customer's requirement and the MGS's commitment to provide the unarmed guarding task are agreed with each TLB and TF, and are set out in overarching Customer Supplier Agreements (CSAs), together with the agreed level of funding for the overall tasks. The detailed tasking for each site within each TLB and TF is contained in separate appendices to each CSA. The description of the service provided by the MGS to its customers is common to all of its CSAs: "The delivery of a professional unarmed guard service to [the customer] which meets the required level of output, quality, timeliness and cost." The customers and the level of funding for FY 2004-05 are listed below: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. TLBs Funding (£) Central TLB 10.33 million Commander-in-Chief Fleet 2.245 million 2nd Sea Lord/Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command 3.904 million Commander-in-Chief Land Command 45.5 million Adjutant General 1.101 million Commander-in-Chief Strike Command 3.176 million Commander-in-Chief Personnel and Training Command 2.682 million Defence Logistics Organisation 19.424 million Defence Procurement Agency 1.83 million Chief of Joint Operations 953,000 Trading Funds Funding (£) Defence Aviation Repair Agency+ Defence Science and Technology LaboratoryÆ 3.183 million UK Hydrographic Office- Meteorological Office+ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Other RAF Menwith Hill--United States Visiting Forces. Subject of a CSA in which actual monies are reclaimed.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

425 c715-7W; 191669

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Contracts Costs Finance Security guards Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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