To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what consideration he has given to the security aspects for barracks and other MOD property of the proposed contracting out of the management of the royal parks.

I have been asked to reply.The security implications for the royal palaces, public buildings and MOD property of contracting out the garden and landscape maintenance work in the royal parks are considered in the same way as they are whenever a contractor's staff undertakes work in such buildings or their gardens.