(2) what the maintenance costs were for the Navy buildings in Greenock in each of the last five years.
Details of the expenditure for running the Royal Navy Buildings Greenock over the last five complete financial years, broken down by budgetary heading, are provided in the following table:
Budgetary heading 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 Utilities1 0.112 0.138 0.119 0.103 0.161 Telecommunications 0.111 0.106 0.096 0.086 0.065 Rates2 0.066 0.065 0.074 0.065 0.059 Total 0.289 0.309 0.289 0.254 0.285 1 Includes electricity, gas, water, oil and waste. 2 Includes cash in lieu of rations—provisions to personnel in the absence of service facilities or food supply.
The equivalent budget for the financial year 2009-10 is £0.337 million.
Details of all Ministry of Defence holdings over £1 million, together with their latest asset valuations can be found in chapter seven of the National Asset Register, on HM Treasury's website at:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/psr_investment_nar_2007_index.htm
The latest figure published for Greenock Navy Buildings is £4.147 million in 2007.
There are no plans to redevelop the Navy buildings in Greenock and only essential maintenance work will be undertaken in the future. Recent estimates of through-life costs required to maintain their material state, suggest that the continued retention of the buildings may not represent best value for money. We are, therefore, looking at options for their future. No decisions will, however, be taken until stakeholders, lodger units and trades unions have been consulted.
The following table provides the number of Ministry of Defence personnel employed at the Royal Navy buildings Greenock over the last five years. Not included are personnel attached to the Royal Navy Reserves and Royal Marines Reserves who regularly use the buildings but are not employed there, nor staff employed by non-MOD lodger units, such as the Department for Transport's Maritime Coastguard Agency:
Post1 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Civilian2 40 35 35 35 30 Armed forces3 10 10 10 5 4— 1 Numbers are rounded to the nearest five. 2 Civilian figures do not include any staff not directly employed by MOD. 3 Armed forces includes all regular trained and untrained personnel and excludes all full-time and mobilised reservists. 4 Denotes rounded to zero.