Departmental Staff (Hansard, 11 November 1996)

§ Mr. Soames

The information requested is contained in the UK defence statistics 1996, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. The latest available estimates of costs are contained in table 1.2 and the related figures for numbers of personnel are in table 2.1.

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percentage of total expenditure
	Outturn	Outturn	Estimate
	1975–76	1980–81	1985–86	1990–91	1992–93	1994–94⁴	1994–95⁵	1995–96	1996–97
Expenditure on personnel	47.3	40.7	35.6	39.5	44.2	42.0	41.3	40.0	39.8
of the Armed Forces	24.4	22.0	19.6	21.6	23.7	29.5	28.8	28.4	28.9
of the retired Armed Forces	4.8	4.5	5.0	6.3	8.3	—	—	—	—
of civilian staff	18.1	14.2	11.0	11.6	12.3	12.5	12.5	11.6	10.9
Expenditure on equipment	33.5	43.7	45.7	39.6	36.7	39.3	39.2	41.3	39.4
Sea	8.2	13.5	13.9	13.3	12.2	11.0	10.9	10.1	9.3
Land	7.7	8.1	10.5	8.6	7.8	7.7	7.3	8.5	7.4
Air	14.1	18.4	18.4	14.3	13.3	13.9	14.1	15.5	16.1
Other	3.5	3.7	2.8	3.4	3.4	6.7	6.9	7.5	6.6
Other expenditure	19.2	15.6	18.8	20.9	19.1	18.7	19.5	18.5	20.8
Works, buildings and land	7.4	5.6	7.9	9.3	7.5	8.9	10.7	8.8	8.7
Miscellaneous stores etc.	11.8	10.0	10.9	11.6	11.6	9.8	8.8	9.6	12.1

Source:

MOD Resources and Programmes (Finance).

Regular service and civilian personnel strength
1 April										Thousands
	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Total personnel	664.3	605.0	542.9	487.0	476.3	468.9	438.9	404.0	371.8	354.0
Service	347.7	328.8	336.4	314.7	307.1	302.4	283.0	261.7	238.6	227.3
Civilian	316.7	276.2	206.5	172.3	169.1	166.5	155.9	142.3	133.2	126.7
Split by:
UK personnel	606.0	560.4	500.3	447.1	438.3	432.9	404.1	376.0	349.5	332.3
Service	338.4	320.6	326.2	305.7	298.1	293.4	274.8	254.5	233.3	222.4
Civilian	266.6	239.8	174.1	141.4	140.2	139.5	129.2	121.6	116.1	109.9
Locally entered/engaged	59.4	44.6	42.6	40.0	38.0	36.0	34.8	28.0	22.3	21.7
Service	9.3	8.2	10.2	9.0	9.1	9.0	8.2	7.2	5.2	4.8
Civilian	50.1	36.4	32.4	30.9	26.9	27.0	26.6	20.7	17.1	16.9
Royal Irish(Home Service)	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.6	5.4	5.3	5.0

Source:

DASA (Civilian and tri-service).