Defence Export Services Organisation (Hansard, 20 December 1994)

§ Mr. Campbell-Savours
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many staff have been employed in the office of the Defence Export Services Organisation in Jakarta in each year since its establishment; and what is the breakdown of their posts.

§ Mr. Freeman
Three staff have been employed in the Jakarta office each year since its establishment. The breakdown is as follows: one grade 7, one personal secretary—shared with the British defence attaché Jakarta—and one driver.

§ Mr. Campbell-Savours
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on which date the decision to establish an office of the Defence Export Services Organisation in Jakarta was taken.

§ Mr. Freeman
The decision to establish an office of the Defence Export Services Organisation in Jakarta was taken in September 1990.

§ Mr. Campbell-Savours
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on which date in 1991 an office of the Defence Export Services Organisation was formally established in Jakarta.

§ Mr. Freeman
The office for the Defence Export Services Organisation was formally established in Jakarta in April 1991.

§ Mr. Campbell-Savours
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the annual cost of running the office of the Defence Export Services Organisation in Jakarta in each year since its establishment both in full and net of any offsetting administrative arrangements.

§ Mr. Freeman
The estimated annual cost of running the DESO office in Jakarta in each year since its establishment has been:

1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95

£K £K £K £K

126¹ 67 78 ¹167

¹ including three years advance rent.

§ Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when the country-based project groups were set up within the defence export services teams; when each country-based project group was functioning; and how many such country-based project groups exist at the present time.

§ Mr. Freeman
Within the Defence Export Services Organisation there are three country-based project teams: for Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Kuwait. They were established in September 1985, November 1989 and January 1993 respectively.

1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95
£K	£K	£K	£K
126¹	67	78	¹167
¹ including three years advance rent.