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.
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.