§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the Royal Air Force(a) bases and (b) other establishments in Yorkshire and Humberside in April 1992 indicating for each the number of (i) service and (ii) civilian personnel employed (1) at that date and (2) currently; and if he will list the date of closure of each of these establishments which closed after April 1992. [18266]
§ Mr. SoamesThe information requested is not held centrally and, as a result, some of the statistics in the following table provided are incomplete or not available for the dates requested.
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July 1992 January 1997 Location RAF Civilians1 RAF Civilians1 RAF bases Catterick2 720 1,281 4 995 Church Fenton 0 19 6 2 Cowden 312 16 6 7 Dishforth 0 38 1 32 Finningley4 n/a 166 6 13 Fylingdales 87 83 73 82 Leeming 1,888 184 1,284 258 Linton on Ouse n/a 152 475 209 Staxton Wold 255 48 116 58 Topcliffe 0 40 0 29 Other establishments Bradford CIO5 3 0 0 0 Grimsby CIO5 3 0 0 0 MOD Harrogate6 n/a 1,345 0 0 Huddersfield CIO5 3 0 0 0 Hull CIO 5 0 3 0 Leeds CIO 8 1 7 2 Sheffield CIO 6 1 7 2 York CIO5 3 0 0 0 1Excludes contractors personnel. 2Catterick passed to Army control on 30 June 1994.
3Figure as at May 1993.
4RAF Finningley closed on 1 April 1996, although a small staff is retained to manage disposal of the site.
5As a result of the defence costs study into service recruiting, the careers information office structure has been rationalised and the RAF CIOs in Bradford, Grimsby, Huddersfield and York were closed on 1 December 1995, 3 March 1995, 31 March 1995 and 8 May 1996 respectively.
6The MOD site at Harrogate was closed on 1 April 1996 following rationalisation of the RAF support management task at HQ logistics command.