§ 38. Mr. Tim Smithasked the Secretary of State for Defence what measures he has taken recently to privatise services within his Department.
§ Mr. ButlerMy hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Lee) detailed the position as it stood last July in a reply to a question from the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, North (Mr. McNamara) on 10 July 1984, at column 453. Since then the royal ordnance factories have been established as a public limited company under the Companies Act and the following work has been, or is about to be, tranferred to contract: 157W
Areas in which contracting out has taken place Location of Service Service/Function A & AEE Boscombe Down Air Traffic Control Equipment Support RAF Quedgeley Defence Accommodation Stores APFS Woolwich Warehousing London Printing RMCS Shrivenham Teaching and Research MOD Navy Warship Refitting RAF St. Athan Driver Training Contracting out is about to take place as follows: Naval Proof and Experimental Proofing of Armament Stores Test Centre Chorley Kyle of Lochalsh Further Contracting out at the British Underwater Test Evaluation Centre DGME Bath/DGSW Portsdown Technical Publications RAF Linton-on-Ouse Aircraft Servicing and Supply