HC Deb 15 November 1976 vol 919 cc362-3W
Mr. Banks

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the effect on planned defence expenditure at 1976 survey prices for each of the years 1975–76 to 1983–84 of the cuts announced in March 1975, April 1975, February 1976 and July 1976.

Mr. Mulley

At 1976 Survey prices, the effect on the planned level of defence expenditure which this Government inherited has been as follows:

850, comprising 250 military and 600 civilian staff. It will draw together the existing organisations of the Transport Officer-in-Chief (Army), the Director of Ordnance Services, the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Army), the Director of Equipment Management (Army) and the Headquarters, Army Freight Organisation, all from London, and the outstations staff at Headquarters Base Organisation RAOC, Didcot, and Headquarters REME Support Group, Woolwich. As a result of this concentration, efficiency will be increased, overheads will be reduced, and about 40 staff will be saved.

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