To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of those people are employed by the Defence Vetting Agency; how many of those are employed in Scotland; what the equivalent figures were for (a) 2004-05, (b) 2005-06, (c) 2006-07 and (d) 2007-08; what the staffing costs of the agency are in 2008-09; and what they were in (i) 2004-05, (ii) 2005-06, (iii) 2006-07 and (iv) 2007-08. (241120)

The information is shown in the following table. These figures are sourced from the Defence Vetting Agency and show all staff employed within the period. As such they may differ from statistics published by the Defence Analytical Services Agency which include only staff employed on 1 April each year and are subject to rounding.