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Defence Sector Employment

Answer

[holding answer 25 May 2006]: The information is not held in the format requested. Information on Civilian staff is only held for Scotland as a whole and is given in Table 1. Data on military staff is broken down by local authority area, hence data is held for Fife but not specifically for Dunfermline and West Fife. The data available is provided in Table 2. Data for those employed in Defence-related industries is provided by the employers themselves.

Table 1: Civilian staff in Scotland by year
	Number of staff
1997	10,130
1998	9,980
1999	9,690
2000	9,650
2001	9,650
2002	8,830
2003	7,300
2004	7,310
2005	6,970
2006	6,930
Notes:
Includes manually paid staff between 1999 and 2001. Data on manually paid staff before 1999 is not available, so estimates have been used. Civilian data are compiled from the various civilian personnel record systems in the MoD, principally those held by the Pay and Personnel Agency (PPA) and the Trading Funds. Differences in the way the personnel in different areas are managed and graded means that not all the data are fully consistent.

Table 2: Military staff posted in Fife by year
	Number of staff
1997	1,460
1998	1,610
1999	1,800
2000	1,730
2001	1,470
2002	1,380
2004	2,470
2005	2,030
2006	2,140
Notes:
Figures are for UK Regular Forces, both Trained and Untrained, located in the UK. They therefore exclude Gurkhas, Full Time Reserve Service personnel, the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and mobilised reservists. Naval Service personnel on sea service are included against the local authority containing the home port of their ship. Naval Service personnel serving in flights at sea are included against the local authority containing the base airfield of their flight. The detailed figures have been compiled from unit statistics related to unit postcodes. For some units postcode information is either unavailable or inappropriate. Location statistics are not available for FTRS, the Home Service battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment and Mobilised Reservists. These figures are taken from TSP 10: UK Regular Forces Distribution across the UK which shows the distribution of Service Personnel by Government Office Region/country, county and local authority area. The publication was suspended in October 2002 when a number of concerns were identified in both the source data and the programs used to produce the publication. It was reinstated in July 2004. Due to a different methodology figures before 2002 should not be compared to those after 2004.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

447 c621-2W; 73478

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Ministry of Defence Scotland

Link

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