To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 6 December, Official Report, column 448W, on spare parts, how many losses in transit there were in (a) 2005 and (b) 2006. (119159)

The reported total value of the losses in transit for financial year 2005-06 was £4.8 million, consisting of 2,823 items; and for the first nine months of financial year 2006-07 the total value of losses recorded is £2.1 million, consisting of 1,731 items. Data are not held in such a way that enables the separate identification of “spare parts”.