§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will(a) list by standard region the research institutes operated for or on behalf of his Department and the total employment thereat, (b) list for each region the total number of such institutes and the employment therein and (c) express the regional totals as a percentage of the national totals.
§ Mr. Sainsbury[holding answer 4 May 1989]: As at 1 April 1989, the total number of staff employed at the Ministry of Defence's non-nuclear research establishments was 13,640. This was broken down as follows:
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Number Admiralty Research Establishment (Headquarters at Portsdown) 2,931 Aeroplane and Armaments Experimental Establishment (Boscombe Down) 1,101 Chemical Defence Establishment (Porton Down) 560 Royal Aerospace Establishment (Headquarters at Farnborough) 5,200
Number Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment (Headquarters at Fort Halstead) 2,262 Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (Headquarters at Malvern) 1,586 Staff are employed at a variety of sites throughout the United Kingdom. It is not our policy to provide a further breakdown of these figures.