Defence written question – answered at on 18 July 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total expenditure was on the Territorial Army in each year since 1997.
The information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Yes0 people think so
No3 people think not
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kieran Locke
Posted on 19 Jul 2007 11:17 am (Report this annotation)
Now this is a rare example where I believe that the information should be held centrally and I cant understand why it is not.
Martin Lee
Posted on 23 Jul 2007 2:48 pm (Report this annotation)
I agree Kieran.
How can the MoD not have prepared budgetary information for one of it's sections?
A simple "Google" tells us:
"The annual budget of the Territorial Army is approximately £350 million – around 1.3% of the total defence budget."
This information is already in the public realm and available to the likes of me - free of charge.(http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/july2007/tacut_back.html)
Maybe Mr Ainsworth doesn't have a computer or internet access - in which case, the cost of obtaining this information would be the cost of a stamp!