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Top-Level Budgets

Volume 195: debated on Thursday 25 July 1991

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will provide detailed figures of the operating costs and programme expenditure in top-level budgets described on page 61 of the 1991 "Statement of the Defence Estimates 1991" Cm. 1559.

Detailed figures for operating costs and programme expenditure in the top level budgets described on page 61 of the 1991 Statement on the Defence Estimates are as follows:

Operating costs £ millionProgramme expenditure £ million
CinC Fleet717
Commandant General Royal Marines191
British Army of the Rhine1,692
Field Army1,118
Assistant Chief of the General Staff52173
Strike Command1,236
RAF Germany358
Overseas Commands520
Naval Home Command514
Fleet Support6661,089
Quartermaster General270453
Army Individual Training Organisation713
Support Command73933
Air Member for Supply and Organisation2501,112
Principal Personnel Officers3392,169
Other MOD TLBs521677
Chief of Defence Procurement995
Defence Research Agency626
Meteorological Office59

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will provide details of the amounts assigned to the top-level budget holders listed on page 60 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1991", Cm. 1559; and if he will make a statement.

The amounts assigned to the top level budgets listed on page 60 of the 1991 Statement on the Defence Estimates are as follows:

£ million
CinC Fleet717
Commandant General Royal Marines191
British Army of the Rhine1,692
United Kingdom Land Forces1,831
of which:
Field Army1,118
Army Individual Training Organisation713
Assistant Chief of the General Staff594
Strike Command1,236
RAF Germany376
Naval Home Command514
Chief of Naval Personnel666
Fleet Support1,755
Adjutant General1,095
Quartermaster General723
Support Command772
Air Member for Personnel746
Air Member for Supply and Organisation1,362
Other MOD TLBs1636
Vice Chief of Defence Staff563
of which:
Defence Staff HQ43
Overseas Commands520
Chief of Defence Procurement995
Defence Research Agency626
Meteorological Office59
1 "Other MOD TLBs" include the 2nd Permanent Under Secretary of State, Chief Scientific Advisor and Chief of Defence Intelligence. The figure cannot be disaggregated, for reasons of national security.