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(c) Residence to place of duty travel reimbursement for those in private accommodation is being phased out, although in certain circumstances service personnel may be paid the cost of excess fares.
(d) The resettlement and 50-plus assisted house purchase scheme will cease to be available from 30 September 1994.
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give a breakdown by region of the companies on the defence contractors' list.
Mr. Neubert : A breakdown by region of companies currently registered on the defence contractors' list (DCL) is as follows :
|Numbers ----------------------------------------- South East |3,051 Greater London |1,728 East Anglia |294 South West |1,080 West Midlands |1,269 East Midlands |644 Yorkshire and Humberside |833 North West |1,134 North |371 Wales |344 Scotland |784 Northern Ireland |113 Channel Islands |6 Isle of Man |7 |--- Total |11,658
Some companies have a number of sites registered on the DCL and the above figures therefore add up to more
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than the number of individual companies on the DCL (10,371). The two figures could be reconciled only at a disproportionate cost.Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give details of the Warsaw pact strategies referred to in paragraph 206, page 6, of Cm. 675-I ; and if he will make a statement on zones of different levels of security and the acceptability to Her Majesty's Government and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : On 9 March 1989, the Warsaw pact presented its initial proposals at the conventional armed forces in Europe (CFE) talks in Vienna. Those called, among other things, for NATO and the Warsaw pact to reduce their holdings of tanks, artillery, armoured troop carriers, aircraft, helicopters and military manpower to a level 10-15 per cent. below the holdings of the weaker alliance. The proposals also called for the establishment of
"zones of reduced levels of armaments"
along borders between NATO and Warsaw pact nations. Since then, they have put forward revised, alternative proposals on zonal arrangements.
NATO has always opposed suggestions for zones of different levels of security, which imply that different nations within the Alliance should be obliged to accept different levels of security. The purpose of the NATO Alliance, and the CFE proposals which it has put forward, is to enhance and maintain security throughout Europe, and the Alliance's proposal for a series of geographical sub-limits on forces is designed to achieve equal security for all from the Atlantic to the Urals.
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the name and rank of the United Kingdom personnel who exercised a challenge inspection of a Soviet exercise in the Odessa region ; and what was the duration of their visit.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Two lieutenant colonels, one squadron leader, and one Army captain formed the inspection team which arrived at midnight on 9 April 1988 and left 46 hours later. It is not our policy to release the names of the individuals concerned.
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the companies involved in his Department's staff interchange scheme.
Mr. Neubert : The following companies have participated in our interchange programme since 1 January 1988.
MOD Interchange Programme Companies participating in 1988-89 Alterplan '87
Alvis
Andrews Industrial
Automated Security
Babcock Thorn
BDH Chemicals
Better Made in Britain
Bishop Price Partners
British Aerospace plc
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British Manufacturing and ResearchBritish Marine Technology
British Nuclear Fuels
British Petroleum
British Telecom
Brown and Root
Cammel Lairds
CAP Scientific
Civil Aviation Authority
Cleanaway Ltd.
C & N Electrical
Computing Services Association
Computing Devices Ltd.
Defence Technology Enterprises
Devonport Management Ltd.
Dowty Maritime
Dowty Seals
Easams
EDO Western Corporation
Eric Treades Systems
Fairey Hydraulics
Ferranti
Fluor Daniel
Frouds Consine
GEC
GKN
Glaxochem
Graviner Ltd.
Grindleys Bank
Hunting Engineering
ICI
ICL
International Aeradio Ltd.
J & S Marine
Land Rover
Lawrence Scott Electromotors
Marconi
Marr and Son
Martin Baker
MCP Electronic Materials Ltd.
Morgan Grenfell & Co.
Motorola
Mott Hay & Anderson
FEL TNO (Netherlands)
North British Newsprint
Oceonics SPL
OCLI Optical Coatings
Oxley Developments
Pan Am World Services Ltd.
Paxman Diesels
Penny and Giles Ltd.
Perkins Diesels
Philips PRCS
Philips Electronics
Plessey
Portsmouth Aviation
Price Waterhouse
Racal Electronics plc
Rank Organisation
Raytheon
Robert Flemming Holdings
Rolls Royce
Rosyth Royal Dockyard
Royal Ordnance plc
Shell UK
Sixth Sense Magazine
Software Sciences Ltd.
Storno Ltd.
Strachan and Henshaw
St. Bernard Plastics
St. Ivel
Systems Designers plc
Thorn EMI
Trend Communications Ltd.
Unilever
USEL Armaments
Vaisala UK
Vickers
VSEL
Vosper Controls
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