HC Deb 21 April 1995 vol 258 c303W
Mr. Fatchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many naval(a) engineers, (b) nursing officers, (c) aircraft controllers, (d) accountants, (e) metallurgists, (f) architects and (g) clerical staff have lost their jobs in the last five years for which information is available; and if he will make a statement. [19160]

Mr. Soames

Although information is not available in the precise form requested, the number of Royal Naval and Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service personnel who were made redundant between 1 April 1990 and 31 December 1994 is as followsEngineer officers and ratings in the engineering branch of the Royal Navy (including metallurgists)—2,621 Supply and secretariat officers and ratings in the writer branch (which will include accountants and clerical staff) in the Royal Navy—236 Nursing officers and rating aircraft controllers in the QARNNS and Royal Navy—0