To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many (a) civilian and (b) military staff there were at the Defence Export Services Organisation in July 2007. (247803)

[holding answer 15 January 2009]: The information is as follows.

Not all the units which comprised the Defence Export Services Organisation in the Ministry of Defence transferred to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform under the machinery of government transfer on 1 April 2008. Some units remained in the Ministry of Defence.