To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 3 September 2007, Official Report, column 1617W, on Departments: BAe Systems, for what reasons the annual figures for applicants given differ from those in the answer of 5 July 2007, Official Report, 1132W. (156751)

My answer given on 5 July 2007, Official Report, column 1132W, noted that the figures had been compiled from manual historic records and that it was therefore possible that some cases might not be included in the figures. Further research of records allowed my answer of 3 September 2007, Official Report, column 1617W, to give a fuller picture of the applications in each year.