§ Mrs. Ray MichieTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel will now be made redundant under "Options for Change"; how many of those being made redundant are from Scottish regiments or have been previously posted to Scotland; and of those, how many are currently in single accommodation within the services and how many are in family accommodation.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonTo date, a total of 12,440 service personnel have been selected for redundancy. In addition, in my answer to the hon. Member for Erewash (Mrs. Knight) on 1 April,Official Report, column 323, I said that a maximum in the order of 2,300 redundancies would take place in the Royal Navy between April and November 1994. Further redundancies in each of the services beyond these will depend on the manning situation.
A total of 486 personnel from Scottish regiments have been selected for redundancy in phases 1 and 2 of the Army's redundancy programme. Information about the number of personnel selected for redundancy who have served in Scotland and about the type of accommodation occupied by personnel made redundant is not available centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.