§ Miss McIntoshTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence why his Department does not keep figures for the current number of(a) service and (b) civilian personnel based at (i) RAF Leeming, (ii) RAF Linton on Ouse, (iii) AAC Dishforth and (iv) Alanbrooke Barracks; and whether his Department has figures for the current number of (A) service and (B) civilian personnel at other defence establishments in the United Kingdom. [173935]
§ Mr. CaplinAlthough individual Defence installations may hold some of this information at a local level, location statistics for Service Personnel are produced centrally by the Defence Analytical Services Agency (DASA). This is done by allocating individuals to a unit based on record of service data, and allocating the unit to a location based postal address. DASA are currently reviewing the source data and process by which these statistics are compiled. The target date for the completion of the review is December 2004. The most recently published location statistics are given in the July 2002 TSP10 publication, which is available in the House of Commons Library. New figures will not be available until the review is complete.
Information on civilians is regularly published by DASA at Government Office Region level where it is believed the data are of sufficient quality. Individual defence installations may hold data at a local level, but centralised systems are not able to provide a reliable breakdown to this level of detail. Individual defence 1615W installations do not routinely publish civilian data as different organisations and agencies are responsible for the same location or site.