§ Mr. Cormackasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many civil servants were employed within his Department on 31st December 1975; how many of these worked in London and how many in the provinces; what was the total annual cost of employing them in 1975; and how this compared with the annual wages and salaries bill for 1974.
§ Mr. William RodgersThe total number of civil servants employed by the Ministry of Defence, including the Royal Ordnance Factories, on 1st January 1976 was 315,577. Of these, 34,109 worked in London and 227,211 in the rest of the United Kingdom. The remainder were serving outside the United Kingdom.
The total annual salaries and wages cost for 1975–76 of the civil servants employed by the Ministry of Defence, as reflected in the Estimates is £1,043 million. The annual salaries and wages for 1974–75 amounted to £814 million.