§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many training establishments exist for initial training; at which locations; how many personnel have been trained at each in the last year; and at what cost. [10993]
§ Dr. ReidThe information requested is as follows. In all cases the costs quoted have been rounded to the nearest £ million.
Royal Navy Training establishment and location Numbers trained in financial year 1996–97 Cost £ million financial year 1996–97 Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth Devon (New Entry RN Officer Training) 229 11 HMS Raleigh Torpoint Cornwall (New Entry RN Recruit Training) 2,077 21 1. The personnel figures are the number of new entrants who completed training successfully.
188W2. BRNC's and HMS Raleigh's activities are not confined to new entry training but include other training for their own personnel, foreign and Commonwealth service personnel and cadet forces. Separate identification of new entry training could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The costs given are the establishment costs which take account of receipts in respect of foreign and Commonwealth training.
3. The costs exclude trainees' pay.
Royal Marines Training establishment and location Numbers trained in financial year 1996–97 Cost £ million financial year 1996–97 Royal Marines School of Music Gibraltar block HMS Nelson Portsmouth Hampshire (RM New Entry Musician Training) 40 1 Commando Training Centre Royal Marines Lympstone Near Exmouth Devon (RM Young Officer and Recruit Training) 383 23 1. The personnel figures are the number of new entrants who completed their training successfully.
2. The costs are presented at full cost level. The costs exclude trainees' pay but account for young officers and recruits who failed to meet the standard.
3. Due to reductions in the size of the RM band service there was a temporary reduction in the requirement for trainees during 1996–97 at the Royal Marines school of music. The requirement during 1997–98 has risen to 58 trainees; 60 is the number which is normally budgeted for on an annual basis. It should be noted that the forecast requirement for 1998–99 is 75 trainees.
Army Training establishment and location Numbers trained in financial year 1996–97 Cost £ million financial year 1996–97 ATR Pirbright 3,023 12 ATR Glencorse 979 5 ATR Bassingbourne 2,075 9 ATR Lichfield 1,133 6 ATR Winchester 1,558 7 Army Apprentices College, Arborfield 580 7 1. In addition, apprentices are trained at the Army school of catering, Aldershot where 148 apprentices passed out in financial year 1996–97, and the apprentices training wing, royal school of military engineering, Minley, where the numbers were 213. In both these last two cases, costs could be isolated from the general running costs of the establishments only at disproportionate cost.
2. The costs shown are those for running the whole establishment, which will include some non-training costs.
3. The costs exclude trainees' pay.
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Royal Air Force Training establishment and location Numbers trained in financial year 1996–971 Cost £ million financial year 1996–972 RAF Halton (Airmen/women initial training) 2,537 9 RAF Honington (RAF regiment gunner)3 225 2 RAFC Cranwell (Initial officer training)4 5470 15
Royal Air Force Training establishment and location Numbers trained in financial year 1996–971 Cost £ million financial year 1996–972 RAFC Cranwell (Airmen aircrew training)6 93 2 1 The numbers of personnel quoted include recoursees. 2 Excludes trainees' salaries. 3 RAF regiment gunners undertake some initial specialist training during initial recruitment training. 4 Includes recruited internally and externally. 5 The numbers given include 15 non-RAF personnel trained on a spare capacity basis. 6 Personnel, recruited internally and externally, to be NCO aircrew.