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Personnel (Germany)

Volume 282: debated on Monday 14 October 1996

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Mr. Wilkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what is the annual cost of locally employed civilian personnel who work for the British Army in Germany excluding those working at the headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps; [40275](2) what is the total annual cost of the stationing of British Army and related British civilian personnel in Germany, excluding those serving in the headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps; [40273](3) what is the annual cost of

(a) British Army personnel serving at the headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Germany, (b) British civilian personnel serving at the headquarters of Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Germany and (c) locally employed civilians working for British personnel at the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Germany. [40274]

Mr. Soames

The expected cost of British military, British civilian and locally employed civilian personnel working in the headquarters Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps and British Army (Germany) during the financial year 1996–97 was as follows:

  • British Military personnel
    • HQ ARRC: £12280 million
    • BA(G): £630.420 million
    • Total: £642.700 million
  • British Civilian personnel
    • HQ ARRC: £0.239 million
    • BA(G): £60.560 million
    • Total: £60.800 million
  • Locally employed civilians
    • HQ ARRC: £0.240 million
    • BA(G): £252.52 million
    • Total: £252.76 million.
These figures reflect personnel salary costs only. It should be noted that a significant proportion of the locally employed civilian work-force is comprised of dependants of British military and civilian personnel.The impact of the deployment of HQ ARRC and other personnel to former Yugoslavia is not reflected in these figures, as these costs are being captured as part of the overall cost of operations there.

The British civilian and locally employed civilian costs of HQ ARRC are a disproportionately low as HQ United Kingdom Support Command (Germany)—part of British Army (Germany)—provides it with a large number of infrastructure and support services.