HC Deb 16 March 2004 vol 419 c202W
Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the changes in Ministry of Defence staff in Wales for the November 2003 to January 2004 quarter. [158895]

Mr. Caplin

Staffing levels and changes for Ministry of Defence civilian staff in Wales (full-time equivalent figures for industrial and non-industrial, permanent staff, excluding Royal Fleet Auxiliaries and those on career breaks, long term sick leave, secondments etc.) are as follows:

Date Civilian staff
January 2004 3,880
December 2003 3,900
November 2003 3,940
October 2003 3,950

This includes Trading Fund staff.

Full time equivalent is a measure of the size of the workforce that takes account of the fact that some people work part-time.

When rounding civilian staff numbers to the nearest ten, numbers ending in five have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias.

Changes are calculated from unrounded data, and then rounded to the nearest 10.