Earl of Dalkeithasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of all the rural properties comprising land that could be used for agriculture or forestry in Scotland in the ownership of the Ministry of Defence, stating the acreage of each area together with a breakdown figure of the type of land classified as rough grazing, permanent pasture and ploughable land, and the rents received where such land is let to agricultural tenants.
§ Mr. ReynoldsThe information is not readily available in the form requested. Details of undeveloped rural land owned by the Ministry of Defence in Scotland are as follows:
would be required to staff a new Army Record and Pay Office in Scotland; how many qualified persons are at present available there; how many others serving in different parts of the United Kingdom have been asked if they would like to transfer to a new office in Scotland; and how many have replied in the affirmative.
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§ Mr. BoydenA new Record and Pay Office will contain an average of 400 non-industrial civilian staff, as well as a number of military officers and soldiers. The exact number of staff in each new office will depend upon the Arm or Corps it administers.
The Regimental Pay Office in Edinburgh employs 46 civilian nonindustrial staff on pay duties. There are some 50 civilians who, at one time or another have worked in a record office, who are now employed at other offices in Scotland. Outside Scotland there are eight persons, with some records experience, who have asked to move to Scotland.
No formal inquiry has been made to ascertain whether other staff wish to transfer to Scotland. For a variety of reasons it has been decided that one of the five combined Record and Pay Offices should not be located there.