Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what human resources information their Department shares with trade unions on a regular basis.

A range of HR information is published on GOV.UK which is publicly available. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) which stipulate some categories of information that the Department will share with the Trade Unions for the purposes of collective bargaining. These include paybill, financial, efficiency and staffing information. In addition, the MOD regularly shares a range of Human Resources (HR) information about matters that impact upon the civilian workforce, including workforce planning; equality and diversity; health and safety; HR policy development; pay and allowances; restructuring; redeployment and redundancies, and outsourcing.