Examination of Witnesses (Questions 120-121)
WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2002
MAJOR GENERAL
A D LEAKEY, CBE AND
MR MARTYN
PIPER
Mr Crausby
120. Just one more question then on the flexibility
of budget. In that respect do you have any flexibility as far
as your budgets are concerned to help you? What about the decisions
to transfer training from ATRA to units? Is there a flexibility
of budgets there? Do you get money as a result of those decisions?
(Major General Leakey) Yes, it is all done on the
statement of training requirement. If Land want us to do that
training and it is more training than we are doing at the moment,
then we will make a compromise. Either some training moves out
to Land because they believe it is better distributed to Land
or more money is provided by them on the transfer from Land to
us to do it or as an Army decision that we should get more of
a priority, so that is how it works.
Chairman
121. Thank you very much. There are lots more
questions, we are going to have to write to you. I think we should
have had a full session on recruitment because obviously that
was an issue everybody was able to express their views on. Thank
you very much for coming. It was very, very helpful and we will
spread the burden on you shortly when we write to you with our
ten questions. Thank you, Mr Piper, for your patience and your
silence. I hope you hand back half of your day's salary today
because you have not really put in any work to earn a salary.
(Mr Piper) Chairman, I am always quite happy to work
on the principle of remain silent and let people think you are
a fool than open your mouth and prove it.
Chairman: Thank you very much.
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