To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the running costs of Copthorne Barracks in Shrewsbury were in (a) 2004, (b) 2005 and (c) 2006. (147663)

The approximate infrastructure running costs of Copthorne Barracks in each of the last three financial years were as follows:

The introduction of Regional Prime Contracting in 2006-07 altered the way in which infrastructure costs are accounted for, in that not all maintenance costs can now be attributed to a particular site. The figure for 2006-07 is not therefore directly comparable to the figures for previous years.