§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will give numbers of civil servants within each division of his Department together with the actual or estimated total costs in salaries, wages and allowances.
§ Mr. PattieThe information requested for the five management divisions of the Ministry of Defence is:448W
Staff in post at 1 November 1982 1982–83 Estimates Provision UK based Locally Engaged £ million Centre 15,272 538 191.1 Navy 61,634 2,210 510.3 Army 49,949 28,456 561.0 Air Force 23,634 2,729 202.1 Procurement Executive 42,348 40 369.7 TOTAL 192,837 33,973 1,834.2 In addition, at 1 November 1982, there were 18,431 staff employed in the Royal Ordnance Factories whose costs are met from a trading fund.