§ Ms Roseanna CunninghamTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many staff are employed in Scotland(a) by his Department and (b) by executive agencies responsible to his Department; where these staff are located; and how many staff are employed in (i) England, (ii) London and the South East, (iii) Wales, (iv) Northern Ireland and (v) United Kingdom in total. [90564]
§ Mr. Spellar[holding answer 13 July 1999]: The MOD employed 23,220 civilian and military staff in Scotland as at 1 April 1998, of which 8,527 staff were employed by executive agencies at that date. These staffs were employed in the following numbers at the locations listed:
Location Number Aberdeen 43 Aberdeenshire 495 Angus 1,107 Argyll and Bute 6,709 Dumfries and Galloway 67 Edinburgh 1,490 Falkirk 4 Fife 2,639 Glasgow 2,666 Highland 767 Inverclyde 32 Midlothian 212 Moray 4,458 North Ayrshire 641 North Lanarkshire 8 Perthshire and Kinross 544 Renfrewshire 108 Shetland Islands 194 South Ayrshire 461 South Lanarkshire 7 Stirling 386 Western Isles 182 Total 23,220 The information in relation to the other locations as at 1 April 1998 is as follows:
Location Number England 219,023 London and the South East 97,336 Wales 9,636 Northern Ireland 17,670 United Kingdom 269,549