To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his reply of 25 July, Official Report, column 297, which skills in which his Department's civil servants have received training are applicable to outside employment.

Most of the skills acquired by MOD civil servants through either in-house or external training are transferable to outside employment. Wherever possible in both industrial and non-industrial training use is made of outside accreditation bodies such as the training boards or the institutions to give recognition to the skills acquired, in addition to academic awards such as BSc, MSc, MBA and HNC.