(2) how much of the budget of UK Trade and Investment will be spent on securing naval orders from other EU countries in 2007-08;
(3) how many of his Department's staff are employed to secure military procurement orders from other EU countries.
The Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) currently has 15 staff working full-time in support of UK industry efforts to win business in EU countries at an estimated cost in the current year of some £800,000.
Records are not kept, for this or previous years, of the proportion of DESO's budget relating to staff time spent on support for efforts to secure naval orders. This information is also not available with respect to other staff in DESO and elsewhere in the Ministry of Defence, who, when required, assist industry to win orders from EU countries.
UK Trade and Investment will take responsibility for supporting defence trade promotion on 1 April 2008. Its budget is not being used for this purpose until then.