Departmental Contracts

Mr. Leech
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many jobs formerly undertaken by staff of his Department have been outsourced to external companies in each of the last five years; and to which companies.

Mr. Kevan Jones
The following table provides the number of MOD civilian staff only that have been transferred to external companies and organisations in each of the last five years.

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|Financial year                                |2005-06|2006-07|2007-08|2008-09|2009-10|Total/headcount|
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|MOD (core)                                    |       |       |       |       |       |               |
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|Transfers out due to outsourcing/privatisation|350    |620    |800    |530    |170    |2,480          |
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|                                              |       |       |       |       |       |               |
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|Trading funds                                 |       |       |       |       |       |               |
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|Transfers out due to outsourcing/privatisation|—      |—      |1,040  |—      |10     |1,050          |
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|                                              |       |       |       |       |       |               |
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|Total                                         |       |       |       |       |       |               |
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|Transfers out due to outsourcing/privatisation|350    |620    |1,840  |530    |180    |3,530          |
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MOD has outsourced and privatised a diverse range of activities in the last five years. This is reflected in the many companies and organisations that staff have transferred to. Although there has been a number of mergers and takeovers between companies in the period, based on the companies’ operating name at the time, transfers have been made to:

Amey Lex

Aramark

Atlas

Babcock Defence Services

BAE

Bailey Teswaine

Bladerunner

BT

Carillion

City of York Council

Cornwall Airports Ltd.

Corporate Document Services

Debut

Electronic Data Services

Eurest

Fleet Support Ltd.

Fujitsu

Interserve

J&J Denholm

Lockheed Martin

Mid Kent College

Modern Housing Solutions

Plymouth University

Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust

Rolls Royce

Serco

Seven Trent Water

Sodexo

Soldiers, Sailors and Airman and Families Association

TQ Education

Vector Aerospace

VT

VT Flagship

Westland Helicopters