HC Deb 24 June 1992 vol 210 cc226-7W
Dr. Liam Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many civil servants currently work for the Ministry of Defence; and what is his estimate of the number of active service personnel there will be by the end of the current year.

Mr. Aitken

At 1 May 1992, the Ministry of Defence employed a total of 138,982 full-time equivalent civil servants, excluding casual staff and locally employed civilians overseas. The strength of the United Kingdom regular forces at the end of the next financial year is estimated to be 265,600.

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