HC Deb 25 January 2000 vol 343 c150W
Mr. Ernie Ross

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the future of the Army Technical Support Agency. [107038]

Mr. Spellar

The strategic defence review (SDR) announced that the Army Equipment Support Organisation was being re-structured and that ATSA would be absorbed into the new organisation. Director General Equipment Support (Land) DG ES (Land) is being formed on 1 April 2000 as part of the Defence Logistics Organisation, incorporating the staff and functions of ATSA. ATSA is therefore to be disestablished formally as an agency with effect from 1 April 2000. The agency's final set of accounts will be laid before the House in the normal way.