§ Mr. Steenasked the Secretary of State for Defence how many jobs in Dartmouth royal naval college will be affected (a) among uniformed patrolmen or his Department's police, (b) in Marine service tasks and (c) in maintenance, preservation of general naval stores, estate management, rodent control, joinery, shipwright tasks, naval cataloguing/codification activity and grounds maintenance tasks, if the Government carry forward their proposals to privatise such services (i) at 5 per cent. and (ii) at 10 per cent. of the existing establishment; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. PattieThe measures referred to were included in a list of illustrative options for contract work as part of an exercise to assess how savings of 5 per cent. or 10 per cent. might be made within the Ministry of Defence as a whole if required. They are not peculiar to any particular establishment. No decisions have yet been taken. I am writing to my hon. Friend with details of the jobs that might be affected at the Britannia royal naval college, Dartmouth.