Ministry of Defence: Public Expenditure

(asked on 9th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

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.


Answered by
Michael Fallon Portrait
Michael Fallon
This question was answered on 16th November 2015


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.




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