asked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of engagements of each service band in 1984 together with the number which were (i) essential for reasons of state, (ii) reasonably necessary for strictly military duties, (iii) for public entertainment and (iv) for private entertainment, including performance at mess and on other service occasions;(2) whether he will publish in the
Official Report a list of the service bands together with the total number of bandsmen and the total number of military and other persons employed directly or indirectly in training, provisioning, transporting, housing and paying them, including the contingent liability to pension payment.
The following table lists all service bands and the personnel in each. Figures showing their engagements are not kept centrally in the form requested, but the number which were fee-paying are listed.The number of individuals employed in training service bands is as follows:
Army | 51* |
RAF | Full time: 6 |
Part time: 8 | |
Royal Marines | Full time: 40 |
Part time: 16 | |
* Training also takes place at junior musician training units; those that can be accounted for in training bandsmen cannot be separately identified. |
Royal Marines
| ||
Title of Band
| Number of Band Personnel
| Number of Fee-Paying (public) Engagements 1983–84
|
1. Royal Marine School of Music Band | 66 | 58 |
2. Band of Commander-in-Chief, Fleet | 66 | 40 |
3. Band of Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command | 66 | 45 |
4. Band of Hag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland | 42 | 2 |
5. Band of Flag Officer Plymouth | 42 | 16 |
6. Band of Commando Forces Royal Marines (disbanded 1 April 1985) | 42 | 24 |
7. Band of Commando Training Centre Royal Marines | 42 | 31 |
8. Britannia Royal Naval College | 34 | 12 |
9. Band of Flag Officer, Third Flotilla (disbands 1 April 1987) | 22 | *n.a. |
* The band spend most of its time embarked and apart from engagements during deployments undertakes very few engagements. |
Army
| ||
Title of band
| Number of band personnel
| Number of fee-paying (public) engagements 1983–84
|
1. Life Guards | 35 | 14 |
2. Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons | 35 | 30 |
3. Grenadier Guards | 50 | 33 |
4. Coldstream Guards | 50 | 50 |
5. Scots Guards | 50 | 50 |
6. Irish Guards | 50 | 77 |
7. Welsh Guards | 50 | 65 |
8. Royal Artillery (Woolwich) | 50 | 21 |
9. Royal Artillery (Alanbrooke) | 35 | 31 |
10. Royal Engineers (Chatham) | 50 | 12 |
11. Royal Signals | 50 | 15 |
12. Royal Tank Regiment (Alamein) | 22 | 16 |
13. Royal Tank Regiment (Cambrai) | 22 | 19 |
14. Royal Tank Regiment (Rhine) | 22 | 8 |
15. Brigade of Gurkhas | 50 | 16 |
16. Royal Corps of Transport | 35 | 27 |
17. Royal Army Ordnance Corps | 35 | 10 |
18. Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers | 35 | 12 |
19. Womens Royal Army Corps | 35 | 8 |
20. Queen's Dragoon Guards | 22 | 8 |
21. Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | 22 | 9 |
22. 4/7th Dragoon Guards | 22 | 2 |
23. 5th Royal Inniskillin Dragoon Guards | 22 | 5 |
24. Queens Own Hussars | 22 | 20 |
25. Queens Royal Irish Hussars | 22 | 8 |
26. 9/12th Royal Lancers | 22 | 14 |
27. Royal Hussars | 22 | 12 |
28. 13th/18th Royal Hussars | 22 | 12 |
29. 14th/20th Kings Hussars | 22 | 9 |
30. 15th/19th Kings Hussars | 22 | 3 |
31. 16th/5th Royal Lancers | 22 | 22 |
32. 17th/21st Royal Lancers | 22 | 4 |
33. The Royal Scots | 22 | 3 |
34. Royal Highland Fusiliers | 22 | 4 |
35. Kings Own Scottish Borderers | 22 | 9 |
36. Black Watch | 22 | 11 |
37. Queens Own Highlanders | 22 | 8 |
38. Gordons | 22 | 5 |
39. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders | 22 | 13 |
40. Queens Regiment—Albuhera Band | 35 | 10 |
41. Queens Regiment—Quebec Band | 35 | 9 |
Title of band
| Number of band personnel
| Number of fee-paying (public) engage ments 1983–84
|
42. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers—St. Georges Band | 35 | 1 |
43. Royal Regiment of Fusiliers—Duke of Kents Band | 35 | 8 |
44. 1st Royal Anglian Regiment | 22 | 23 |
45. 2nd Royal Anglian Regiment | 22 | 20 |
46. 3rd Royal Anglian Regiment | 22 | 13 |
47. Kings Own Border | 22 | 11 |
48. Kings Regiment | 22 | 16 |
49. Prince of Wales Own | 22 | 7 |
50. Green Howards | 22 | 7 |
51. 1st Royal Irish Rangers | 22 | 3 |
52. 2nd Royal Irish Rangers | 22 | 2 |
53. Queens Lancashire Regiment | 22 | 9 |
54. Duke of Wellington's Regiment | 22 | 11 |
55. The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment | 22 | 2 |
56. 22nd Cheshire Regiment | 22 | 5 |
57. Royal Welch Fusiliers | 22 | 8 |
58. Royal Regiment of Wales | 22 | 5 |
59. 1st Battalion Glosters | 22 | 6 |
60. Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters | 22 | 18 |
61. Royal Hampshire Regiment | 22 | 5 |
62. Staffordshire Regiment | 22 | 13 |
63. Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment | 22 | 6 |
64. Light Infantry Corunna Band | 35 | 2 |
65. Light Infantry Salamanca Band | 35 | 9 |
66. Normandy Band Royal Green Jackets | 35 | 8 |
67. Peninsula Band Royal Green Jackets | 35 | 12 |
68. Regimental Band 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment | 35 | 10 |
69. Regimental Band of the Parachute Regiment | 35 | 27 |
RAF
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Title of band
| Number of band personnel
| Number of fee-paying (public) engagements 1983–84
|
1. Central Band | 79 | 30 |
2. RAF College Band | 42 | 20 |
3. RAF Regiment Band | 42 | 10 |
4. Western Band | 42 | 8 |
5. RAF Germany Band | 42 | 49 |
6. Salon Orchestra | 7 | 83 |
asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the total direct and indirect costs of retaining service bands including the costs of accommodation, transportation, training, recruitment, victualling, pay and all allowances of any kind, and contingent pension cost; and how much of this cost is incurred overseas.
Costs are not available in the detailed format requested as many of the sub categories identified cannot readily be separated from amongst the overall costs of units of which the bands form but a part. However, the current costs for all service bands, in the following broad categories, can be estimated—primarily on the basis of present capitation rates—as follows:
£ million | |
Personnel Costs (including Pay, ERNIC and Personal Allowances) | 25·5 |
£ million
| |
Support Costs (including movements, basic training and office support costs) | 5·3 |
Contingent pension costs are estimated at £5·2 million.