Russell Brown
Shadow Minister (Defence)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what savings, in each category of expenditure, his Department has made since May 2010; and what savings are forecast over the next five years.
Philip Hammond
The Secretary of State for Defence
holding answer
As a result of the changes to policy and financial plans announced in and around the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the Department implemented savings of £74 billion over its 10-year programme, as presented in the following table:
| £ billion | |
| Equipment and equipment support | 36.8 |
| Reductions in front line military personnel | 8.8 |
| Non front line reductions (including civilian personnel) | 14.6 |
| Sales receipts | 1.4 |
| Other running costs and changes in assumptions | 12.0 |
| Total savings | 73.6 |
During the 2013 spending round, the Ministry of Defence committed to £875 million of further operating costs efficiency savings in 2015-16. These savings will be delivered from contract renegotiations, the centralised procurement of common goods and services, pay restraint, and reductions in the cost of the Department's civilian headcount and allowances.
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