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This annual statistical compendium from the Ministry of Defence contains figures about the armed forces, defence expenditure, service and civilian personnel and defence activities. It complements two other publications: The Ministry of Defence Performance Report - which deals with the performance of the MOD against its objectives - and the Consolidated Departmental Resource Accounts.
This annual statistical compendium from the Ministry of Defence contains a wide range of data relating to the armed forces, defence expenditure, service and civilian personnel and defence activities. Findings for the period 2003-04 include: i) defence spending was the Government's fourth highest expenditure, with a provisional outturn against the Departmental Expenditure Limits of £37.2 billion, and a total value of MoD fixed assets of £86.3 billion as of March 2003; ii) the total number of MoD personnel fell by 34 per cent between 1990 to 2004, with service personnel down by 32 per cent; iii) the proportion of serving personnel from the ethnic minorities stood at 4.9 per cent at April 2004, compared with 4.3 per cent the previous year; iv) in 2002-03, MoD net expenditure on R&D activity totalled £2.7 billion; and v) the MoD spent around £1.7 billion on conflict prevention activities worldwide during the year 2003-04.
UK Defence statistics is an annual publication containing statistical information on all areas of defence, including: finance; personnel; formations, vessels, aircraft and vehicles of the armed forces; aircraft accidents, casualties, flying hours and vehicle accidents; military search and rescue; land holdings and buildings; Northern Ireland, military aid to civil authorities and conflict prevention. For example, some of the main findings include: defence spending, in the 2005/06 period totalled nearly £33.2 billion; the total value of MoD fixed assets was £95.3 billion as at 31 March 2006, whilst the value of land and buildings owned by the MoD totalled nearly £18.5 billion; in 2005/06, the MoD spent around £1.2 billion on conflict prevention worldwide, with the latest estimated cost in Iraq in 2005/06 being £958 million; in 2005 the total worldwide military expenditure is estimated to be just over US $1001 billion at 2003 prices, with the USA the world's largest military spender accounting for 48 per cent of worldwide expenditure in 2005, with the UK the second largest, at 5 per cent.
This is the annual statistical compendium of the Ministry of Defence. It contains facts and figures on the United Kingdom Armed Forces, UK defence expenditure, Service and civilian personnel and Defence activities. This publication is a part of National Statistics which are outputs which ministers have decided should come within the scope of the new arrangements set out in the Government's white paper Building Trust in Statistics (Oct 99).