Speeches

Steven Paterson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steven Paterson on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to his Department was of maintenance of facilities at (a) Prestwick, (b) RAF Benbecula, (c) RAF Buchan, (d) RAF Lossiemouth, (e) RAF Tain, (f) RRH Saxa Vord, (g) HMNB Clyde, (h) Redford Barracks, (i) Dreghorn Barracks, (j) Glencorse Barracks, (k) Fort George (l) Kinloss and (m) Leuchars in each of the last five years.

Mark Lancaster

Reliable information on maintenance costs is only held since financial year (FY) 2012-13 as shown in the following table:

Financial Year

2012-13 Total

2013-14 Total

2014-15 Total

2015-16 Total to 31/10/2015

HMS Gannet (Prestwick)

Information not held

£117,000

£118,690

£70,616

RAF Benbecula

£56,000

£74,000

£86,981

£61,339

RAF Buchan

£81,000

£106,000

£116,784

£76,931

RAF Lossiemouth

£1,683,000

£1,731,000

£1,618,861

£1,288,955

RAF Tain

£11,000

£20,000

£11,667

£0

RRH Saxa Vord

£43,000

£51,000

£86,445

£79,373

HMNB Clyde

£122,000

£132,000

£77,000

£14,000

Redford Bks

£694,000

£724,000

£585,831

£279,097

Dreghorn Bks

£526,000

£633,000

£487,636

£166,740

Glencorse Bks

£491,000

£547,000

£433,281

£159,876

Fort George

£246,000

£319,000

£331,140

£254,079

Kinloss

£1,050,000

£1,118,000

£1,254,464

£936,217

Leuchars

Information not held

Information not held

£530,590

£1,220,826