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| Royal Air Force | |
| Pinch point trade | Percentage shortfall |
Armed Forces: Royal Engineers
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects (a) 124 Fd Sqn RE(V) and (b) 129 Fd Sqn RE(V) to form. [148980]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth [holding answer 11 July 2007]: On current plans 124 Field Squadron RE (V) and 129 Field Squadron RE(V) will begin to form up from 1 April 2009.
Arms Control
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what role his Department plays in delivering the objectives of the G8 global partnership. [149466]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: I refer my hon. Friend to the Global Partnership, UK Fourth Annual Report 2006, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
Army
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many soldiers were commissioned from the ranks in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [149402]
Derek Twigg: The following table shows the number of trained soldiers who have outflowed to officer from the ranks for the period 1 April 2002 to 28 February 2007:
| Date of flow | Number of outflows to officer |
| (1) Due to the introduction of a new personnel administration system for all three services, Army data shown at 1 April 2007 and 1 May 2007 are not available. Consequently Army data shown are for the latest 12 months available, comprising data from 1 March 2006 to 28 February 2007. Notes: 1. UK regular forces includes nursing services and excludes full-time reserve service personnel, Gurkhas, the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and mobilised reservists. 2. All data have been rounded to the nearest 10. Numbers ending in “5” have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. | |
Defence Agencies
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many people were employed within the (a) Defence Housing Executive and (b) Defence Estates in each year since 1997, broken down by occupation; [149669]
(2) how many redundancies there were within (a) the Defence Housing Executive and (b) Defence Estates in each year since 1997, broken down by occupation. [149670]
Derek Twigg: Details of civilian full-time equivalent (FTE) strengths are given in the following table.
| FTE strengths | ||
| Defence Estates( 1) | Defence Housing Executive( 2) | |
Details of civilian FTE redundancies are given in the following table.
| FTE redundancies | |
| Defence Estates( 1) | |
| (1) Known as the Defence Estates Organisation until 1 March 1999 and subsequently merged with Defence Housing Executive on 1 April 2004; formally ceased to be a Defence Agency on 1 April 2007. (2) Defence Housing Executive was formed April 1999 and merged with Defence Estates on 1 April 2004. (3 )Denotes less than 5. Notes: 1. These table use the revised definition of civilian personnel (see www.dasa.mod.uk for details). 2. Figures include values for part-time staff proportionate to those of full-time staff. 3. All figures are rounded to the nearest ten; as a result totals may not always equal the sum of the parts. For visibility rounding has only been applied to figures of ten and above. 4. For DHE strength figures are available for the first five years it existed, but redundancies are not separately identifiable. | |
Information relating to occupation is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Defence Export Services Organisation
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the future of the Defence Export Services Organisation. [149158]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Ministry of Defence will continue to offer high quality support to UK-based defence manufacturers to help them win contracts for legitimate defence exports.
Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent discussions he has had with HM Treasury on the future of the Defence Export Services Organisation; and if he will make a statement. [149320]
Des Browne [holding answer 12 July 2007]: I have regular discussions with colleagues at the Treasury on issues of mutual interest.
Defence Export Services Organisation: Finance
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what funding the Defence Export Services Organisation received in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement; [149132]
(2) what future funding for the Defence Export Services Organisation was included in the 2007 Budget. [149157]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: I refer the hon. Member to the answer my predecessor gave on 24 April 2006, Official Report, column 845W, to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones). The net operating costs of the Defence Export Services Organisation in financial years 2005-06 and 2006-07 were £14.497 million and £15.015 million respectively.
Provision of £13.7 million has been made for the net operating costs of the Defence Export Services Organisation in 2007-08.
Departments: Early Retirement
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his staff took early retirement in the last five years; at what cost; what grades of staff took early retirement; and what percentage of each grade took early retirement. [148817]
Derek Twigg: The information in respect of the number, grade and percentage of staff who took early retirement is provided in the following tables:
| Table 1: Early retirement 2002-03 to 2006-07 | |
| Headcount | |
| (1) The streamlining of Head Office prior to the reoccupation of main building in London led to 540 personnel taking early retirement on compulsory early retirement on structural grounds. Note: This table excludes Royal Fleet auxiliary and locally engaged civilian staff for whom no information on civilian early retirements is available. | |
| Table 2: Early retirement 2002-03 to 2006-07 by grade | |||||
| Grade | 2002-03 | 2003-04( 1) | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 |
| (1) The streamlining of Head Office prior to the reoccupation of main building in London led to 540 personnel taking early retirement on compulsory early retirement on structural grounds. Note: This table excludes Royal Fleet auxiliary and locally engaged civilian staff for whom no information on civilian early retirements is available. | |||||
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