Current Funding Position of the Training
Regime
The outturn of costs for the respective training
agencies in 2003-04 and estimates for 2004-05 are as follows:
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| Royal Navy
| Army | RAF
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| 2003-04 | £351m
| £961m | £723m
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| 2004-05 | £413m
| £870m1 | £535m2
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NOTES
1 As of December 04.
2 The figure provided is a forecast and relates to the
cost of operations of the Management Group under RAB and includes
any cost of lodgers but not the costs borne by other Management
Groups. These costs increased the final out-turn figure by between
£60-80 million net in the last two financial years.
Future funding requirements to maintain duty of care
As the Committee will be aware from our memorandum dated
7 May 2004, £23.225 million was made available in STP 04
to implement further DOC recommendations. This enabled us to fund
necessary new supervisory posts and to make other improvements
in the welfare of trainees. The Services have also made many improvements
in the provision of welfare and care. These have been achieved
through careful husbanding of existing resources. So far as nature
funding is concerned, training has to take its place in the allocation
of Department resources and will be prioritised in the normal
planning process.
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