Armed Forces
Defence

Jonathan Edwards (Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Plaid Cymru)

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he plans to publish data for 2012 relating to the number of services and civilian jobs directly and indirectly related to his Department's work in (a) each country and region of the UK and (b) elsewhere in the world.

Mark Francois (Rayleigh and Wickford, Conservative)

Information on jobs indirectly related to the Ministry of Defence's work is not held. Civilian and service employment details directly related to the MOD's work in each country and region of the UK and overseas are published in the 1 July 2012 edition of the Quarterly Location Statistics (QLS) publication which was released on 16 August 2012 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

This is a quarterly publication presenting information on the stationed location of all UK regular service and civilian personnel by UK unitary authority and local authority area, as well as all international global locations. I have arranged for copies of the 1 July 2012 edition of the QLS to be placed in the Library of the House.

These figures can also be found on the DASA website:

http://www.dasa.mod.uk/applications/newWeb/www/index. php?page=48&pubType=0&thiscontent=120&PublishTime =09:30:00&date=:2012-08-16&disText=01%20July%202012& from=listing&topDate=2012-08-16