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DEFENCE
Armed Services (Deaths)
Mr. Flynn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 4 March, Official Report,
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- (2) if he will estimate how many members of each armed service have (a) been killed on active service, (b) been killed in accidents, (c) committed suicide and (d) died of natural causes within the first six months of joining, in each of the last seven years. [19613]
Mr. Soames: This is a matter for the chief executive of the Defence Analytical Services Agency. I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Paul Altobell to Mr. Paul Flynn, dated 13 March 1997:
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I am replying to your two questions to the Secretary of State for Defence about the numbers of personnel in the Services who have (i) been killed in accidents during training periods, or committed suicide during training periods and (ii) died within the first six months of joining, since 1990. As Chief Executive of Defence Analytical Services Agency this matter falls within my area of responsibility.
The information you request is detailed in the attached tables. In the first, I have shown those who died while on training, defined as basic training, assault course/parachute jumps and similar training, and exercises. In the second I have listed those who died within their first six months of joining, classified according to our standard classification system. Figures in both tables are for the same period, 1 January 1990 to 3 March 1997, as was covered in my letter to you of 3 March 1997.
I am afraid our database does not contain the numbers of suicides which occurred during training. These could only be collected at disproportionate cost. As you are aware the overall numbers of suicides were contained in the table sent with my letter of 3 March 1997.
(18) This covers cases with open or misadventure coroner verdicts and those yet to be confirmed.
(19) Includes Gurkhas.
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| Navy | Army(21) | RAF | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 1991 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 |
| 1992 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 1993 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1994 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 1995 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 to 3 March 1997 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 8 | 35 | 2 | 45 |
(20) Training defined using the NATO STANAG for classification of disease, injuries and causes of death as basic training, assault courses/parachute jumps etc, and exercises.
(21) Includes Gurkhas.
Customer Charters
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department and its executive agencies have spent drafting, publishing and circulating each of their customer charters and customer standard documents; and how many copies of each document have been issued. [19389]
Mr. Arbuthnot: My Department keeps no central record of this information. Where such documents are published by agencies, this is a matter for the chief executives and I have asked them to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from J. C. R. Hunt to Mr. Brian Donohoe, dated 13 March 1997:
I am replying to your Question to the Secretary of State for Defence about customer charters and Customer Standard documents and the cost and number of each document issued as this matter falls within my area of responsibility as Chief Executive of the Metrological Office.
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Letter from M. A. Rowe to Mr. Brian Donohoe, dated 13 March 1997:
Mr. Bayley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the Royal Air Force (a) bases and (b) other establishments in Yorkshire and Humberside in April 1992 indicating for each the number of (i) service and (ii) civilian personnel employed (1) at that date and (2) currently; and if he will list the date of closure of each of these establishments which closed after April 1992. [18266]
Mr. Soames:
The information requested is not held centrally and, as a result, some of the statistics in the following table provided are incomplete or not available for the dates requested.
In the current financial year we will spend some £200 on printing our own Charter Standard for the Public, which is the only one of our publications falling within the ambit of your question. About 3,500 copies will have been distributed in various ways.
The administrative/drafting costs of updating our Charter cannot be identified in isolation but are unlikely to exceed £1,000.
I hope this information answers your question.
I am replying to your Question to the Secretary of State for Defence regarding production of a customer charter. This matter falls within my area of responsibility as Chief Executive of the Pay and Personnel Agency (PPA).
The PPA customer charter has not yet been printed, but our predecessor organisation--the Pay Services Directorate of the Defence Accounts Agency--issued 20,000 copies of its charter at an overall cost of £5,143. We estimate the equivalent cost of the PPA customer charter will be £3,500. It will be issued to every member of the MOD paid by the PPA--some 120,000 staff--but it will be a simpler version of its predecessor, hence the lower costs.
| July 1992 | January 1997 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | RAF | Civilians(22) | RAF | Civilians(22) |
| RAF bases | ||||
| Catterick(23) | 720 | 1,281 | 4 | 995 |
| Church Fenton | 0 | 19 | 6 | 2 |
| Cowden | (24)12 | 16 | 6 | 7 |
| Dishforth | 0 | 38 | 1 | 32 |
| Finningley(25) | n/a | 166 | 6 | 13 |
| Fylingdales | 87 | 83 | 73 | 82 |
| Leeming | 1,888 | 184 | 1,284 | 258 |
| Linton on Ouse | n/a | 152 | 475 | 209 |
| Staxton Wold | 255 | 48 | 116 | 58 |
| Topcliffe | 0 | 40 | 0 | 29 |
| Other establishments | ||||
| Bradford CIO(26) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grimsby CIO(26) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MOD Harrogate(27) | n/a | 1,345 | 0 | 0 |
| Huddersfield CIO(26) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hull CIO | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Leeds CIO | 8 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Sheffield CIO | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| York CIO(26) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(22) Excludes contractors personnel.
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