§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Engineering and Science Group; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27813]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Engineering and Science Group is not an organisation but merely a nominated group of professional-level civil servant engineers and scientists working within the Ministry of Defence.
1285WOn 22 January 2002, records showed the Defence Engineering and Science Group to be comprised of 12,027 engineers and scientists across the UK, of whom 833 are employed in Scotland. These 833 are employed in different agencies and budget areas of the Ministry of Defence.
The personnel costs for these engineers and scientists cannot be uniquely or separately identified under the name Defence Engineering and Science Group, and could therefore be provided only at disproportionate cost.
The UK and Scotland figures given include professional-level civil servant engineers and scientists that have been previously included in answers to Warship Support Agency, UK National Codification Bureau, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Defence clothing and Textiles Agency, and the Defence Procurement Agency.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Army Base Repair Organisation; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27820]
§ Dr. MoonieAs of 1 December 2001, the total number of staff employed by ABRO, formerly known as the Army Base Repair Organisation, was 2,694. Of these 132 individuals were employed at Stirling, ABRO's sole workshop facility in Scotland.
The forecast total pay cost of ABRO staff for the current financial year of 2001–02 was as of 1 December 2001, £55.934 million. This figure includes £2.281 million for Stirling.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Strategic and Combat Studies Institute; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27809]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Strategic and Combat Studies Institute (SCSI) is a defence academic forum controlled by the Defence Studies Branch of the Directorate of Development and Doctrine at Upavon. It is co-ordinated by the Director of Defence Studies (Army) and his Administrative Officer, based at Shrivenham. These two individuals are the only staff of the SCSI and there are no staff employed in Scotland. The costs of the SCSI are absorbed within the budget of the Defence Studies Branch and are restricted to publication and conference fees. The SCSI publishes a series of defence academic journals entitled "The Occasional".
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Analytical Services Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27825]
§ Dr. MoonieDefence Analytical Services Agency's (DASA)'s permanent full-time equivalent strength at 1 December 2001 was 135. DASA employs no staff in Scotland. The personnel cost of DASA' s permanent staff for financial year 2000–01 was £3.257 million.
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§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Secondary Care Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27803]
§ Dr. MoonieAs at 1 October 2001, 2,515 permanent personnel and staff on long-term contracts worked for the Defence Secondary Care Agency (DSCA); 10 were employed in Scotland, in the field of community psychiatry. Personnel costs for the current financial year in respect of staff in these long-term appointments are forecast to be some £83.26 million. In addition, the DSCA employs staff as and when required on short-term contracts. The associated personnel costs for the current financial year are forecast to be some £3.45 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Estates; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27849]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Estates employs 1,610 people, of whom 107 work in Scotland. The personnel costs of the agency for the financial year from 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002 are £42.919 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the National Codification Bureau; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27807]
§ Dr. MoonieThe UK National Codification Bureau employs some 98 personnel, all in Glasgow. Personnel costs amount to about £2 million per annum.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Directorate General Commercial Organisation; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27805]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Director General Commercial is the Professional Head of the Ministry of Defence's Commercial Function. He is professionally responsible for all commercial posts throughout the MOD, some 2,000 staff in total. Approximately 150 of these are based in Scotland. The Director General Commercial Organisation is a term used to describe collectively the commercial staff within the MOD. It is neither an agency, nor a budgetary element within the Department and costs of commercial staff are borne by their parent organisations. No central record is kept of the personnel costs for the Commercial Function and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27808]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Evaluation and Research Agency ceased to exist on 1 July 2001. From its constituent parts two new organisations were created; QinetiQ, a Ministry of Defence owned commercial company; and the Defence Science and Technology laboratory (Dstl), an agency of the MOD.
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§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the War Pensions Agency; how many employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27810]
§ Dr. MoonieA total of 918.5 people work in the War Pensions Agency, 16 of who are employed in Scotland. The total staff costs forecast for the year 2001–02 is £18,804,733.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Disposal Services Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27814]
§ Dr. MoonieI refer the hon. Member to the Disposal Services Agency (DSA) Annual Report and Accounts 2000–01 (pages 36-38) which was laid before the House on 18 July 2001. Copies are available in the Library of the House. There were four DSA employees in Scotland during this period.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Bills Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27823]
§ Dr. MoonieThe number of staff who work for the Defence Bills Agency is 649, which equates to 583 full time equivalents, none of whom is employed in Scotland.
The forecast of personnel costs for 2001–02 is £11.076 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Repository; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27804]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Ministry of Defence has a central records repository that is located at Hayes in west London. There are currently 100 MOD personnel directly involved in providing the main records and support services at the Hayes site, some working part-time, at an annual cost of £1.743 million. A further 12 MOD personnel working on associated tasks are based at the site, at an annual cost of £281,000. The records repository is not a defence agency and does not have any other sites associated with it, including in Scotland.
Other Government Departments also have staff at the Hayes site, associated with their records holdings there. The Hayes site and the pan-Government records storage and retrieval services it provides are currently the subject of a Public Private Partnership project.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Procurement Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27800]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Procurement Agency employs approximately 4,500 civilian and military staff, of which 122 are in Scotland.
The payroll costs for financial year 2000–01 were just under £126 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Meteorological Office; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27817]
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§ Dr. MoonieThe current number of people working for the Meteorological Office is 2,064. Of this number, 139 people are employed in Scotland. The total Meteorological Office pay bill for financial year 2001–02 is likely to be £72.771 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Scientific Advisory Council; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27802]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC) is an advisory body that provides independent advice to Ministers on scientific research matters related to defence issues.
DSAC consists of five standing boards, a register of independent members and the Council itself. The current register contains 185 members, drawn from industry and academia, 13 of whom have registered that they live and work in Scotland. Each member is paid a daily fee for attendance at meetings together with travel and subsistence as and when members partake in DSAC activities.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Warship Support Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27811]
§ Dr. MoonieAs at November 2001, the latest date for which detailed figures are readily available, there were 11,105 people working for the Warship Support Agency, of which 3,666 were employed in Scotland. It is estimated that personnel costs within the agency for the financial year 2001–02 will total some £225 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Directorate of Standardisation; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27806]
§ Dr. MoonieIn 1999 the Directorate of Standardisation became the UK Defence Standardisation team and part of the Defence Procurement Agency's Procurement Development Group. The UK Defence Standardisation team has the equivalent of 38 people working full time of which 32 are employed in Scotland. The payroll costs for financial year 2001–02 are estimated at £1.1 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Hydrographic Office; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27815]
§ Dr. MoonieAs at 1 December 2001, there were 914 people employed at the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. Currently there are five people (three full time and two part time) employed at the Chart Maintenance Unit at Faslane in Scotland. The forecast personnel costs for the agency for the financial year 2001–02 are £24,567 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the International Visits Control Office; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27816]
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§ Dr. MoonieThe International Visits Control Office is a part of the Directorate of Defence Security, and wholly based in London; it has no staff employed in Scotland. The office has a complement of nine posts. The annual personnel cost for the office is approximately £189,000.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Export Services Organisation; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27799]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Export Services Organisation employs 5891 service and civilian personnel, of whom three are based in Scotland. The personnel costs of the organisation for the financial year 2000–01, part of which are met from receipts, were £25.4 million.
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§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Ministry of Defence Police; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27818]
§ Dr. MoonieAs at 1 January 2002, 3,328 police officers and 263 civilian staff were employed by the Ministry of Defence Police Agency. 782 police officers and 36 civilian staff were employed in Scotland. The personnel costs of the MDP Agency for the financial year 2000–01 were some £143 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Aviation Repair Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27822]
§ Dr. MoonieThe latest figures available show that at 1 December 2001 the number of employees working for the Defence Aviation Repair Agency is 5,020. The number of employees working in Scotland is 334. The annual personnel costs of the agency at 1 December 2001 are £120 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the British Forces Post Office; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27819]
§ Dr. MoonieThe British Forces Post Office (BFPO) employs 132 military and 429 civilian personnel, mainly at its sorting office and headquarters in Mill Hill, London NW7. The remaining personnel are located in 11 regional Defence Mail Centres including one in Glasgow employing nine civilian staff. These are the only BFPO staff located in Scotland.
The total annual personnel costs of BFPO are £11.838 million.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27812]
§ Dr. MoonieThe Defence Clothing and Textiles Agency was disestablished in October 2000. Part of the organisation was restructured and became the Defence Clothing Integrated Project Team (IPT) in April 2001.1290W The IPT currently employs 245 staff, none of whom are employed in Scotland. The staff costs of the IPT are approximately £7.3 million per annum.
§ Angus RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many people work for the Defence Scientific and Technical Laboratory; how many are employed in Scotland; and what the personnel costs of the agency are. [27801]
§ Dr. MoonieAt 1 January 2002, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) employed 3,037 staff. Of these, 54 were employed in Scotland. Based upon the first six months of Dstl operations, Dstl's paybill (which includes total pay, casual allowances, ERNIC and pension costs) averaged £8.56 million per month.