asked the Secretary of State for Defence what proportion of total revenue expenditure in the financial years 1972–73 to, and including 1975–76, was spent on maintaining the then existing establishment of civilian employees showing the position in relation to each of the three Services separately.
The expenditure on salaries, wages and related costs of MOD civilian employees for the years 1972–73 to 1975–76, expressed as a percentage of the defence budget, was approximately 17 per cent. The civilian salaries and wages costs cannot be precisely attributed to each of the three Services separately. In so far as this can be done, an analysis by services of the costs borne by the main civilian pay Vote is given each year in the Appendices to Vote 6 of the defence Supply Estimates.