§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was spent in the last 12 months for training by the(a) Royal Navy, (b) Royal Marines, (c) Army and (d) RAF in the United Kingdom; and what proportion of these totals are spent in Scotland. [147014]
§ Mr. Spellar[holding answer 25 January 2001]: Our latest best estimates for the amounts spent on individual training by the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and RAF in the last 12 months are respectively: £233 million, £39 million, £422 million and £446 million. These figures 262W are approximate and exclude the costs of front-line collective training which are difficult to separate from normal day-to-day operations.
Of the figures above, £869 million was spent by the Services' Training Agencies. It is estimated that just over 1 per cent. of this sum was spent in Scotland. The balance of £291 million, which represents the cost of training conducted outside the Services' Training Agencies, is not broken down on a regional basis, and figures could be provided only at disproportionate cost.