HC Deb 04 December 2001 vol 376 c224W
Mr. John Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what were the annual overhead costs of the Defence Aviation Repair Agency of(a) RAF St. Athan, (b) RAF Sealand, (c) Fleetlands and (d) Almondbank in (i) 1999–2000 and (ii) 2000–2001 expressed in (1) cash terms, (2) real terms and (3) as a proportion of the income of each site. [19421]

Mr. Ingram

The annual overhead costs of the DARA during 1999–2000 and 2000–01 are as follows.

Financial year 1999–2000 Financial year 2000–01
Establishment Cash RAB1 Cash RAB1
RAF Sealand 8,467 10,578 7,671 13,204
RAF St. Athan 20,900 26,111 18,937 32,603
Fleetlands 13,882 17,342 12,577 21,654
Almondbank 3,712 4,638 3,364 5,791
1 Resource accounting and budgeting

With regards to expressing these as a proportion of income, this is not possible as DARA was not a trading fund until 1 April 2001 and as such did not generate income from Ministry of Defence work prior to this date.

Mr. John Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what were the repair turn round times in the Defence Aviation Repair Agency, at(a) RAF St. Athan, (b) RAF Sealand, (c) Fleetlands and (d) Almondbank in (i) 1999–2000 and (ii) 2000–01. [19420]

Mr. Ingram

The Defence Aviation Repair Agency has many thousands of items to which measured turn round times (TRTs) apply and it would only be possible to list all of these items and their TRTs individually at disproportionate cost.

Mr. John Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many personnel were employed at DARA in(a) RAF St. Athan, (b) RAF Sealand, (c) Fleetlands and (d) Almondbank on 1 November. [19418]

Mr. Ingram

The following numbers of personnel were employed at the Defence Aviation Repair Agency sites on 1 November 2001:

Location Personnel
RAF St. Athan 2,521
RAF Sealand 1,114
Almondbank 336
Sealand 1,036

Please note these figures to not include RAF support units at St. Athan or Sealand or other lodger units on sites.

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