§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list by establishment, including agencies, the numbers of(a) military and (b) civilian employees of his Department in the Salisbury constituency in (i) 1990, (ii) 1994 and (iii) an estimate for 1998.
§ Mr. SoamesIt is not our normal policy to divulge the number of employees at individual Ministry of Defence establishments. Although my Department keeps no record of military and civilian employees by parliamentary constituency, we are able to provide the numbers of service and civilian personnel within the Salisbury local authority area. At 1 July 1990, there were 5,187 service and 3,765 full-time equivalent civilian personnel employed in the local authority area. The corresponding figures for 1 July 1994 were 4,923 service and 3,920 civilian personnel. It is too early to make accurate estimates of the corresponding figures for 1998.