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All figures included in this table relate to in-service aircraft, and does not include any pre-service flying. Figures for each helicopter type are being provided by Land Forces in the answer to PQ 216251. Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF), Contracted aircraft, and gliders have not been included. The Harrier figures have been collated as a combined total after FY 2005-06, and therefore it is not possible to split them into separate figures for GR7 and GR9 as the information is not held in that format.
Military Bands: Expenditure
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how much was spent on (a) military and (b) naval bands in each year since 1997; [207258]
(2) how many engagements involving the recovery of costs have been undertaken by (a) military and (b) naval bands since 1997. [207260]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Officials are currently collating the information requested. I will write to the hon. Member in due course.
Substantive answer from Bob Ainsworth to Andrew Murrison :
I undertook to write to you in answer to your Parliamentary Question on 2 June 2008 (Official Report, column 688), about how much had been spent on military and naval bands in each year since 1997 and how many engagements involving the recovery of costs had been undertaken on military and naval bands for the same period.
For total expenditure on bands, data is only available for the Army since the formation of Regional Forces (from Financial Year 2003-04) and from Financial Year 2004-05 for the Navy. It has proven to be extremely difficult to obtain data going back to 1997 as you requested due to disbandments and amalgamations over a number of years and changes to financial structures and reporting. The data held is shown in the tables below:
| Army band expenditure | |
| Financial year | £ million |
| Naval band expenditure | |
| Financial year | £ million |
| RAF band expenditure | |
| Financial year | £ million |
For band cost recoveries, data is available dating back to 1997 in some cases. There is a caveat in that some Army bands have reported complete data back to 1997 whereas others have only been able to do so for more recent years. This, again, is due to disbandments and amalgamations. The information held is shown in the tables below and reflects Category IV engagements which are events where the organiser is charged the full commercial musician rate and the service provided as a fee-paid event:
| Army band recovered costs | |
| Number of engagements attracting recovered costs | |
| Naval band recovered costs | |
| Number of engagements attracting recovered costs | |
| RAF band recovered costs | |
| Number of engagements attracting recovered costs | |
Transport
Departmental ICT
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what IT contracts her Departments and its agencies have entered into in the last two years. [215161]
Jim Fitzpatrick: A list has been placed in the Libraries of the House showing IT contracts entered into by the Department for Transport and its agencies in the last two complete financial years.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff have access to her Department's IT infrastructure at their home. [216385]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The number of staff in the Department and the agencies who have access to IT infrastructure at home is set out in the following table.
Departmental Manpower
Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many permanent staff in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies are classed as (i) staff without posts and (ii) part of a people action team. [215567]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The central Department and its agencies have recorded a figure of five or fewer occurrences of permanent staff (i) without posts and (ii) working as part of a people action team. In such instances our response is suppressed on grounds of confidentiality.
Departmental Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was claimed in reimbursable expenses by special advisers in her Department in each of the last 10 years. [215237]
Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport was formed in 2002 under Machinery of Government changes. The amounts claimed by special advisers as reimbursable expenses in subsequent years are as follows:
| £ | |
Procedures for reimbursing staff expenses are set out in the Department’s Staff Handbook, and are in line with the provisions set out in the Civil Service Management Code.
Departmental Press Subscriptions
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was spent by her Department on subscriptions for magazines, newspapers and other publications in each of the last 24 months. [215206]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Expenditure coded as subscriptions for magazines, newspapers and other publications in accounting systems during the period June 2006 to May 2008 by the Department for Transport is recorded as:
| £ | |
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