Maria Eagle – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Maria Eagle on 2015-11-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent (a) in real terms and (b) as a share of departmental spending on (i) temporary agency staff, (ii) consultants, (iii) non-payroll staff, (iv) administration and (v) marketing and advertising for each year since 2010-11.
Michael Fallon
This information is not held in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. I can, however, provide an analysis of non-permanent staff and the Ministry of Defence’s Administration Costs.
|
Financial Year |
Budget Element |
Outturn (£ million) |
Outturn (Percentage of Total Departmental Expenditure Limit) |
|
2010-11 |
Contingent Labour |
46.9 |
0.12% |
|
Advisory Consultancy |
23.5 |
0.06% |
|
|
Other Non-Permanent Staff (1) |
316.8 |
0.80% |
|
|
Administration Costs (2) |
2,026.0 |
5.13% (3) |
|
|
2011-12 |
Contingent Labour |
49.2 |
0.13% |
|
Advisory Consultancy |
18.3 |
0.05% |
|
|
Other Non-Permanent Staff (1) |
315.1 |
0.85% |
|
|
Administration Costs (2) |
2,691.9 |
7.24% (3) |
|
|
2012-13 |
Contingent Labour |
50.3 |
0.15% |
|
Advisory Consultancy |
44.5 |
0.13% |
|
|
Other Non-Permanent Staff (1) |
270.7 |
0.79% |
|
|
Administration Costs (2) |
2,178.9 |
6.36% (3) |
|
|
2013-14 |
Contingent Labour |
99.3 |
0.29% |
|
Advisory Consultancy |
90.4 |
0.26% |
|
|
Other Non-Permanent Staff (1) |
219.5 |
0.64% |
|
|
Administration Costs (2) |
2,129.2 |
6.16% |
|
|
2014-15 |
Contingent Labour |
118.7 |
0.35% |
|
Advisory Consultancy |
91.2 |
0.27% |
|
|
Other Non-Permanent Staff (1) |
332.5 |
0.97% |
|
|
Administration Costs (2) |
1,473.7 |
4.29% (3) |
Notes:
(1) Comprising: fee earners, manpower support, technical support and casual staff.
(2) HM Treasury define Administration Budgets as covering costs other than the costs of direct frontline service provision; for example, activities such as the provision of policy advice and business support services. Administration costs therefore usually include expenditure on employee costs, accommodation, office services, contracted-out services and relevant depreciation. From financial 2011-12 the Department and HM Treasury agreed that Administration Budgets would in future only include the costs of civilian staff (excluding health-care professionals and staff working in operational areas) and the cost of Advisory Consultancy; the Armed Forces were excluded from this revised Administration Cost Regime as were the MOD’s Arms Length Bodies. The scope of Administration Costs was updated in 2014-15 to include military administration costs and exclude civilian costs where they relate directly to programme or frontline service delivery.
(3) Elements of expenditure on Contingent Labour, Advisory Consultancy and other non-permanent staff are also included in the MOD’s Administration Costs and there is therefore some duplication with other statistics provided in the table.
