§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will list the location of each of the defence agencies headquarters; how many staff each employs; what the annual expenditure of each was in the last year for which figures are available; and how much was spent in Wales; [137307]
(2) what the expenditure was of each defence agency (a) in total and (b) in Scotland in the last available year; and how many staff were employed by each agency (i) in total and (ii) in Wales in that year. [137309]
§ Mr. CaplinThe location of defence agency headquarters, the total number of staff employed by each agency as at 1 April 2003 and agency net operating costs for financial year 2002–03 are available in a supplementary document to the Ministry of Defence's Annual Report and Accounts 2002–03. This is available at www.mod.uk/linked_files/publications/pdr2002_2003/agencies03.pdf.
Figures for civilian personnel employed by Defence agencies in Wales are provided in the table below. Information on agency expenditure in Wales and Scotland, and the number of Service personnel employed by agencies in Wales, is not held centrally and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
The number of staff employed in Wales (full-time equivalent figures for industrial and non-industrial, permanent staff, excluding Royal Fleet Auxiliaries and those on career breaks, long term sick leave, secondments etc), by executive agencies as at 1 April 2003: 961W
Civilian Staff employed as at 1 April 2003 Army Personnel Centre — Army Training and Recruiting Agency 140 British Forces Post Office 10 Defence Communication Services Agency 10 Defence Dental Agency — Defence Estates 20 Defence Housing Executive 10 Defence Procurement Agency — Defence Storage and Distribution Agency 190 Ministry of Defence Police — Naval Recruiting and Training Agency 10 RAF Training Group Defence Agency 140 Veterans Agency 10 Trading Funds ABRO 20 Defence Aviation Repair Agency 2,770 Defence Science and Technology — Laboratory Meteorological Office 40 Those agencies and Trading Funds that are not referred to do not have staff employed in Wales. Data have been rounded to the nearest 10 to preserve confidentiality and those with fewer than five staff are recorded as —.