Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) recruitment and (b) redundancy as a result of the rebasing programme at Imphal Barracks.

As a result of both the merger of Headquarters of 15 (North East) Brigade with 4 Mechanised Brigade and the move of Headquarters 1st (UK) Division from Germany to York there were no civil servant redundancies and no external recruitment. Civil servants were relocated from Germany to the UK and vacancies were filled by existing civil servants. Gratuity payments made to locally employed staff in Germany are considered to be a part of the wider drawdown of UK forces from Germany and are therefore not included.