Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what commercial, project management and engineering role vacancies there were in his Department (a) in March 2014 and (b) on the latest date for which data is available.

The requested information is presented in the table. The figures for March 2014 are lower than the normal number of vacancies in each of these areas through 2014. Changes to the Civil Service Resourcing jobs portal meant that the recruitment process was effectively frozen for a period of around three weeks in March; vacancies not submitted to the system that month were submitted to the new portal in April.

Vacancies that have been advertised on the Civil Service Jobs website: