§ Ms SquireTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the budget for training all ranks of Royal Navy personnel in(a) 1997–98, (b) 1998–99, (c) 1999–2000, (d) 2000–01 and (e) 2001–02. [136939]
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§ Mr. SpellarThe figures provided are the training budget in cash terms for the delivery of training at all the shore establishments of the Naval Recruiting and Training Agency. This encompasses initial training (i.e. new recruits) and aspects of career training and Pre-Joining Training, i.e. courses immediately prior to a particular draft/appointment. These figures do not include costs of projections for Royal Marines or Naval Reserves but does include the NRTA HQ costs as these are considered to be a training overhead cost or projection.
The following are the actual expenditure figures for 1997–98, 1998–99 and 1999–2000, the cash allocation figure for 2000–01 and the Short Term Plan (STP 01) projected Cash Control Total (CCT) for 2001–02:
Naval recruiting and training agency (NRTA) £ million Year Actual expenditure Cash allocation Project CCT 1997–98 179.902 — — 1998–99 192.263 — — 1999–2000 192.990 — — 2000–01 — 200.342 — 2001–02 — — 196.133