Defence written question – answered at on 5 July 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent estimate he has made of the number of jobs in the defence sector in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
In 2008-09 the Ministry of Defence directly employed approximately 17,900 people in Scotland, including service personnel and civil servants. We do not currently estimate the number of jobs dependent on broader Defence expenditure in any particular nation or region of the UK; the last available estimate for Scotland was for 2007-08 and was some 6,000 jobs.
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