§ Gregory BarkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list total membership of the University Officers' Training Corps, by contingent, for each year since 1997; and if he will break down the membership by(a) age and (b) sex for each year. [69670]
§ Mr. IngramMembership of the University Officers' Training Corps, by contingent, for each year since 1997, and a breakdown of the membership by sex, is shown in the table. I regret that statistics for age are not held. In light of the fact that most officer cadets are undergraduates, we would expect the majority to be in the 18 to 22 age bracket.
UOTC/year 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Aberdeen 156 194 167 173 215 Birmingham 215 221 216 219 211 Bristol 182 214 173 183 168 Cambridge 278 289 287 248 218 East Midlands 201 178 171 216 184 Edinburgh 201 190 167 121 143 Exeter 217 199 233 184 172 Glasgow and Strathclyde 155 162 164 156 190 Leeds 200 184 157 145 173 Liverpool 188 172 198 220 199 London 314 398 376 391 433 Manchester and Salford 169 156 162 166 174 Northumbrian 168 209 237 227 254 Oxford 220 235 212 201 248 Queen's Belfast 163 197 171 213 147 Sheffield 172 183 175 212 223 Southampton 165 139 161 201 202 Tayforth (Dundee) 247 228 184 246 219 Wales 211 166 189 209 202 Officer Cadets Male 2,490 2,570 2,553 2,655 2,667 Officer Cadets Female 1,332 1,344 1,247 1,276 1,308 Total 3.822 3,914 3,800 3,931 3,975 Note: Information taken from "The Officers' Training Corps Annual Report 2001".
§ Gregory BarkerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list his Department's total expenditure on the University Officers' Training Corps, for each year since 1997. [69671]
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§ Mr. IngramThe expenditure on the University Officers; Training Corps, for each year since 1997, is shown in the table.
£ Expenditure 1997 17,112,000 1998 17,454,000 1999 18,410,349 2000 18,679,050 12001 20,627,053 1Consequent on the introduction of Resource Accounting and Budgeting this figure reflects resource costs.
Source: The Officers' Training Corps Annual Report 2001.