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Naval Service figures include Royal Navy commodores and Royal Marines brigadiers.

Data provided for 2007 to 2009 should be considered provisional due to the ongoing validation of data from the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) System. Figures above 100 have rounded to the nearest 10.

Armed Forces: Training

Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the effect on attendance at Officer Training Corps of the in-year savings announced earlier in 2009. [307238]

Bill Rammell: Following a reduction in the University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) budget in October, cadet pay has been suspended until April 2010. This was one of a number of budgetary measures taken this year by the Army to enable resources to be better focused on the MOD's main effort in Afghanistan.

A number of UOTC commanders have reported reduced attendance since the suspension of cadet pay. Attendance levels normally drop away at this time of year, as first year undergraduates decide which activities are for them. We will have a clearer picture of students' intentions once they have returned from their Christmas break. Our intention is to restore cadet pay in the next financial year and we hope that the majority of officer cadets will be able to ride out this temporary difficulty.

Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the attendance levels have been at Officers Training Corps for each unit as a percentage of (a) establishment and (b) actual strength in each of the last 12 months. [307239]

Bill Rammell: The attendance levels at each unit of the Officer Training Corps, in each of the last 12 months, as a percentage of establishment and actual strength, is shown in the following tables:

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Percentage
	January		February		March		April		May		June
Unit	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual
Aberdeen	57	41	75	58	69	57	62	53	54	50	61	61
Birmingham	136	88	142	92	75	48	26	17	51	33	152	99
Bristol	62	41	67	45	75	52	44	31	30	21	109	77
Cambridge	54	53	53	52	39	46	22	26	17	23	25	34
East Midlands	0	0	68	51	69	61	41	37	35	33	17	16
Edinburgh	48	31	56	36	51	32	11	6	42	35	51	47
Exeter	28	21	51	39	57	43	6	5	38	31	33	31
Glasgow and Strathclyde	86	78	85	77	77	72	71	70	0	0	77	79
Leeds	78	43	120	71	91	56	9	6	47	33	51	36
Liverpool	71	45	76	61	67	58	55	52	42	40	31	30
London	65	57	62	57	40	61	24	36	26	40	61	92
Manchester and Salford	57	37	77	58	76	60	51	39	36	28	65	56
Northumbrian	96	49	112	58	126	68	110	60	83	43	89	49
Oxford	60	31	54	28	49	26	55	29	39	20	38	20
Queens	30	21	81	54	81	54	83	62	36	27	83	70
Sheffield	57	27	78	37	88	54	58	37	51	33	94	63
Southampton	42	33	65	63	60	61	38	39	33	35	27	28
Tayforth	97	43	136	60	125	57	109	52	107	50	93	45
Wales	90	64	100	70	101	70	68	51	59	47	103	85

Percentage
	July		August		September		October		November		December
Unit	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual	Estab	Actual
Aberdeen	25	28	4	5	22	28	75	72	58	56	46	45
Birmingham	152	99	30	19	46	30	36	32	88	83	74	72
Bristol	109	77	11	8	14	11	47	48	50	33	39	26
Cambridge	37	51	20	28	11	15	67	59	59	51	53	51
East Midlands	75	74	0	0	46	47	48	32	68	54	0	0
Edinburgh	11	10	8	7	101	57	42	25	34	21	13	8
Exeter	24	25	9	9	0	0	30	39	35	55	44	73
Glasgow and Strathclyde	0	0	0	0	0	0	80	69	76	65	65	56
Leeds	117	88	47	41	38	33	105	92	91	43	72	47
Liverpool	88	84	0	0	0	0	92	64	106	74	88	64
London	55	83	9	18	31	60	103	85	98	81	69	60
Manchester and Salford	15	13	37	38	38	39	75	49	62	48	0	0
Northumbrian	65	37	86	49	24	14	54	33	159	63	133	53
Oxford	74	47	34	22	33	41	76	95	61	44	48	36
Queens	0	0	71	70	36	43	33	44	29	44	28	28
Sheffield	33	22	33	22	43	31	109	69	80	54	80	62
Southampton	0	0	0	0	0	0	91	85	75	71	63	59
Tayforth	31	16	30	20	113	79	138	93	125	66	80	46
Wales	103	87	25	21	70	60	109	68	96	56	64	37

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