§ 2. Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the impact on jobs in Gloucestershire as a consequence of defence contracts awarded in each of the past five years. [8971]
§ Mr. ArbuthnotWe do not maintain estimates of defence-related jobs on a county basis. However, the south-west as a whole is one of the two regions with the highest proportion of those in work whose jobs are directly related to my Department's equipment contracts.