University Air Squadrons Operating Costs

HL Deb 30 October 1995 vol 566 cc150-1WA

Lord Blease

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What were the annual operating costs, for each of the last five years, of each of the 16 University Air Squadron Units in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Earl Howe

The annual operating costs of individual University Air Squadrons are only available from financial year 1993/94, when the UAS task was rationalised within Commandant RAF Cranwell's budget. However, as there has been no significant variation in either the UAS establishment or flying task during the last five years, the cost of operating the squadrons would have been of a similar order in the three prior years to those for FY 93/94 and FY 94/95, which are detailed below:

	£	£
University Air Squadron	93–94	94–95
Aberdeen, Dundee & St Andrews	536,000	412,000
Birmingham	549,000	560,000
Bristol	758,000	892,000
Cambridge	621,000	629,000
East Lowlands	507,000	455,000
East Midlands	721,000	592,000
Glasgow & Strathclyde	546,000	518,000
Liverpool	457,000	502,000
London	1,094,000	904,000
Manchester and Salford	700,000	748,000
Northumbrian	514,000	559,000
Oxford	436,000	537,000
Queen's	906,000	911,000
Southampton	680,000	702,000
Wales	504,000	493,000
Yorkshire	618,000	588,000

	£	£
University Air Squadron	93–94	94–95
Total	10,147,000	10,002,000