Chapter 1 - Finance
                       
Table 1.11 Estimated UK Regional Direct Employment Dependent on MOD Expenditure1
Tables 1.11, 1.11a & 1.11b provide estimates of the number of direct full time jobs in the Government Office Regions of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the UK as a whole, supported in industry and commerce by MOD direct expenditure. Table 1.11a provides estimates of the number of direct jobs in UK industry and commerce dependent on direct MOD equipment expenditure. Table 1.11b provides estimates of the number of direct jobs in UK industry and commerce dependent on direct MOD non equipment expenditure. Direct employment is that generated in those companies providing the product or service to the MOD. Equipment expenditure covers those sums spent on producing equipment for the armed forces and goods for MOD, including expenditure on Research and Development, manufacture, and equipment support. Non equipment includes expenditure on items such as utilities (gas, water and electricity) and maintaining the defence estate.

The full methodology (which includes an assessment of the quality of the underlying data used to produce these estimates) is described in DASA Defence Statistics Bulletin No.7, available on the DASA website.

The figures exclude MOD service and civilian personnel. Total direct UK employment has been rounded to the nearest 5000 to align to the national employment estimates in Table 1.10, whilst individual regional totals are shown to the nearest 1000 full time equivalent. Differences between the totals and sums of the components are caused by this rounding. Regional percentage breakdowns are based on the unrounded UK figures.

The data in this table are outside the scope of National Statistics because they do not meet all of the high professional quality assurance standards set out in the Official Statistics Code of Practice.

Please see the note in the Industry and Employment Introduction about the cessation of National and Regional Employment Estimates.
        Thousands   Percentage
  2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08   2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
United Kingdom 140 135 145 135 125   100 100 100 100 100
                       
England 126 123 130 126 113   89 90 91 92 92
                       
East 12 10 11 8 7   9 7 8 6 6
East Midlands 3 3 5 4 4   2 2 3 3 3
London 10 13 9 9 9   7 10 6 7 7
North East 3 2 2 3 2   2 1 2 2 2
North West 17 15 15 17 14   12 11 10 13 12
South East 36 37 41 38 37   26 27 29 28 30
South West 35 35 37 37 31   25 26 26 27 25
West Midlands 6 5 5 7 6   4 4 4 5 5
Yorks & Humber 4 3 4 4 3   3 2 3 3 3
                       
Scotland 10 9 9 7 6   7 7 6 5 5
Wales 3 2 2 2 2   2 1 1 1 1
Northern Ireland 2 2 2 2 2   1 1 1 1 2
Source: DASA (Defence Expenditure Analysis)
1. Using the average UK turnover per full time equivalent may neglect potential differences in regional turnover per head. However, regional turnover per head
    at the level of SIC used in the employment estimates is not currently available from the ONS: the employment estimates for a number of industries/ products
    use 3 digit SIC level data, and the ONS only publish (limited) regional data derived from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) data at 2 digit level. The impact of
    using national employment averages is not likely to produce a significantly different output than if regional employment averages were available.