Chapter 1 - Finance
                       
Table 1.11a Estimated UK Regional Direct Employment Dependent on MOD Equipment
                           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 85 80 85 80 75   100 100 100 100 100
                       
England 74 73 78 76 68   89 90 93 93 92
                       
East 7 6 6 5 4   8 7 7 7 6
East Midlands 2 2 3 3 2   2 2 3 4 3
London 2 3 3 2 2   2 4 3 3 3
North East 3 2 2 1 1   4 2 2 2 1
North West 15 14 14 15 12   18 17 16 18 16
South East 20 21 24 21 22   24 26 29 26 30
South West 20 21 22 23 19   24 26 26 28 27
West Midlands 4 3 4 4 3   5 4 5 5 5
Yorks & Humber 1 1 1 1 1   1 1 1 2 2
                       
Scotland 7 6 5 4 4   8 7 6 5 5
Wales 1 1 1 1 1   1 1 1 1 1
Northern Ireland 1 1 - - 1   1 1 - - 1
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.