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Armed Forces: Pay
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the current salary bill for all service personnel is, broken down by (a) service and (b) rank. [258430]
Mr. Kevan Jones: The most recently published total salary bill (including allowances) for service personnel broken down by service can be found in the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency Annual Report and Accounts for Financial Year 2007-08. A copy of this is held in the Library of the House. For ease of reference, details are reproduced as follows:
| Service | Total (£ billion) |
A breakdown of the total salary bill by rank is not held centrally, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Armed Forces: Working Hours
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many hours on average were worked by (a) junior and (b) senior service personnel at each rank of each service in each age band in each week of the last 12 months. [258312]
Mr. Kevan Jones: The information requested is not held centrally on administration systems. However Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) carry out a Continuous Survey of Working Patterns which is used to provide estimates of the average weekly hours worked over a financial year.
The estimates provided within the report are broken down by service, rank group and broad location. Information on age is not collected within this survey and hence breakdowns by age are not available.
Due to the size of the sample survey estimates are only considered to be statistically valid over long time periods, as such estimates could not be provided for each week.
The 2006-07 copy of the Continuous Survey of Working Patterns report is available in the Library of the House.
The 2007-08 report will be placed in the Library of the House by the end of April 2009.
Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armoured vehicles of each type are (a) in service with the Army and (b) in working order. [257694]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The term ‘working order’ has been interpreted as ‘fit for purpose’ . Several vehicle platforms have been undergoing radio conversion work, repairs and overhauls and have therefore been taken out of service on a rolling basis to enable this work to take place. This has affected the number of fit for purpose vehicles available, which may change on a daily basis.
As at 24 February 2009, the information requested is:
| Vehicle type | Number ‘in service’ | Number ‘fit for purpose’ |
Defence: Procurement
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the forecast cost of the Falcon programme was from the (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (b) indirect resource DEL and (c) capital DEL at 31 March (i) 2007 and (ii) 2008. [257781]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The information requested is shown in the following table. The figures include the cost of the assessment, demonstration and manufacture phases.
| £ million | ||
| 31 March 2007 | 31 March 2008 | |
These figures are for Increment A of Falcon only. Increment C costs will be reported in MPR09.
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the forecast cost of the Naval Extremely High Frequency/Super High Frequency Satellite Communication Terminal Programme was from the (a) direct resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL), (b) indirect resource DEL and (c) capital DEL at 31 March (i) 2004, (ii) 2005, (iii) 2006, (iv) 2007 and (v) 2008. [257784]
Mr. Quentin Davies: The information is shown in the following table. The figures include the cost of the assessment, demonstration and manufacture phases.
| £ million | |||||
| 31 March 2004 | 31 March 2005 | 31 March 2006 | 31 March 2007 | 31 March 2008 | |
Departmental Buildings
Greg Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the (a) display energy certificates and (b) advisory reports for public buildings issued in respect of each property occupied by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies. [256045]
Mr. Kevan Jones:
A list of buildings occupied by this Department and its agencies, for which display energy
certificates and advisory reports have been produced, has been placed in the Library of the House.
Copies of the certificates and advisory reports for each building can be accessed from the Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificate Register through the following link:
https://www.ndepcregister.com/
Departmental Civil Servants
Nick Harvey: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the information placed in the Library in relation to the Answer of 12 November 2008, Official Report, column 1175W, on departmental civil servants, what the job descriptions are for the job family classifications (a) business management and improvement, (b) corporate support, (c) engineering and science, (d) estates, (e) logistics and (f) security, health and safety. [258710]
Mr. Kevan Jones: The following tables show the lists of job codes contained in each job family:
| (a) Business management and improvement | |
| Job family | Job code |
| (b) Corporate support | |
| Job family | Job code |
| (c) Engineering and science | |
| Job family | Job code |
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