Private Security Firms

HC Deb 07 March 1989 vol 148 c517W

110. Mr. Livingstone

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what his policy is towards his Department's involvement with private security firms.

Mr. Sainsbury

The use of private security firms in guarding establishments is an option open to MOD in those cases where their use can satisfy certain security criteria, and where it achieves better value for money.