Chapter 2 - Personnel
         
Table 2.26 Civilian personnel1 by budgetary area, at 1 April 2010
MOD Head Office is the largest single budgetary area, comprising 23% of the Civilian Level 0 total. 96.6% of MOD Head Office staff are employed in non-industrial grades.

Within Service Command organisations, C-in-C Land Forces has the most personnel 19.2%, followed by Air Officer C-in-C 10.1%, and C-in-C Fleet 5.5%.

There are considerably higher percentages of industrial grades staff in Service Command TLBs, with 32.9% of Air Officer C-in-C, 28.0% of C-in-C Land Forces and 23.3% of C-in-C Fleet (excluding Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel).

Thousands: FTE
    Total Non-industrial Industrial
Civilian Level 01,2 85.8 * *
         
Commander-in-Chief Fleet2 4.8 * *
         
  Navy Command 2.4 1.9 0.6
  Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service2 2.3 * *
         
Commander-in-Chief Land Forces 16.5 11.9 4.6
         
  Chief of Staff Land Forces 0.7 0.6 -
  Field Army 1.4 0.8 0.6
  Force Development & Training3 4.4 3.6 0.8
  Joint Helicopter Command 0.6 0.3 0.3
  Personnel & Support Command3 8.4 5.5 2.9
  Service Childrens Education Agency 1.1 1.0 -
         
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief 8.7 5.8 2.8
         
  HQ Air Command 8.7 5.8 2.8
         
Defence Equipment & Support 16.2 13.8 2.3
         
  Defence Equipment & Support4 16.2 13.8 2.3
         
MOD Head Office, HQ and centrally managed expenditure 19.8 19.1 0.7
         
Central Top Level Budget 16.7 16.1 0.5
  Defence Academy 0.3 0.3 -
  Defence Export Services Organisation - - -
  Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Health) 0.7 0.6 0.1
  London Delegated Budgets 3.4 3.2 0.2
  London Head Office 1.9 1.9 -
  Ministry of Defence Police and Guarding Agency 7.5 7.5 -
  Personnel Director 1.5 1.5 -
  Policy and Commitments 0.4 0.2 0.2
  Central Other5 0.9 0.9 -
         
Chief of Joint Operations 0.3 0.3 -
  Commander of British Forces Cyprus 0.1 0.1 -
  Commander of British Forces Falklands - - -
  Commander of British Forces Gibraltar - - -
  Permanent Joint Headquarters 0.1 0.1 -
         
Defence Estates 2.8 2.7 0.1
         
         
Unallocated 0.1 0.1 -
         
Civilian Level 11,2 65.9 * *
         
    Total Non-industrial Industrial
MOD owned Trading Funds2 9.7 * *
         
  Defence Science and Technology Laboratory 3.7 * *
  Meteorological Office 1.8 * *
  UK Hydrographic Office 1.0 * *
  Defence Support Group 3.2 * *
         
Locally engaged civilians2 10.2 * *
         
Civilian Level 01,2 85.8 * *
Source: DASA(Quad-Service)
1. Civilian Level 0 and Level 1 are defined in the Glossary.
2. A breakdown of industrial and non-industrial personnel is unavailable for Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Trading Funds and locally engaged civilian personnel.
3. Regional Forces, previously reported within the Land Forces TLB budgetary area structure, have been restructured to form the budgetary areas of Forces
    Development & Training, and Personnel Support & Command. Comparison against previous years tables is not advisable.
4. Defence Equipment Support Management Group and Future Defence Supply Chain, previously reported within the Defence Equipment & Support TLB
    budgetary area structure, have been restructured to form the Defence Equipment & Support budgetary area. Comparison against previous years tables is not
    advisable.
5. This budgetary area contains personnel from the following working level management groups (WLMG): Service Personnel and Veterans Agency, Programme
    Costs, Strategy Director and any residual personnel from Central closed budgetary areas.