Royal Air Force (RAF)

Type
Closure
Country
United Kingdom
Region
West Midlands (England); Shropshire and Staffordshire; Staffordshire CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Stafford
Sector
Public Administration / Defence
84 - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
84.2 - Provision of services to the community as a whole
84.22 - Defence activities
300 - 530 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
21 July 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

Almost 300 jobs are to go at RAF Stafford, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced. The storage depot at the base, where 530 people work, is to close by 2007. The MoD said 280 people were being made redundant and the other 250 staff would be offered transfers or early retirement. About 450 servicemen and women in the Air Support Unit are already being moved from RAF Stafford to RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire. The leader of Stafford Borough Council said she would be writing to the MoD to ask what plans are in place to support families affected by redundancy.

Sources

  • 21 July 2005: BBC News

Citation

Eurofound (2005), Royal Air Force (RAF), Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61950, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61950.