§ Mr. Cookasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will state (a) the number of personnel made redundant and (b) the number of posts shed by his Department since May 1974 in each of the following categories (i) each armed service, (ii) civilian staff within his Department, (iii) industrial civil servants at defence establishments and (iv) any other category of defence employee.
§ Mr. PattieThe information in so far as it is available, is as follows:
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Total reductions* (1 April 1974 to 1 January 1983) Number of redundancies Royal Navy/Royal Marines 10,170 172 Army 8,784 4,341 RAF 9,229 2,591 United Kingdom civilian non-industrial staff 22,737 †318 United Kingdom civilian industrial staff 34,434 ‡7,605 Locally engaged civilians overseas 16,493 — * The service figures give the reduction in the requirement for trained service personnel including locally engaged personnel, the civilian figures are reductions in the actual strengths adjusted for comparability between the two dates.
† Number of redundancies since may 1979 only. Figures for earlier years are not readily available.
‡ Figures not available.