Armed Forces: Training

Mr. Hoyle
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how much expenditure is expected to be saved through training of each Territorial Army (a) squadron and (b) battalion;

(2) what estimate has been made of the likely effect of reductions in Territorial Army (TA) training on numbers of TA personnel;

(3) how much expenditure is expected to be saved as a result of the proposed reduction in Territorial Army training; and how those savings were calculated.

Bill Rammell
As the Secretary of State for Defence announced on 28 October 2009, Official Report, column 354W, having listened to the representations both in Parliament and elsewhere, the Government have decided to provide an additional £20 million to the Army this year to enable routine training for the TA to continue.