Defence industry broadly welcomes reforms but Labour attacks vision and unions protest at cuts

Today’s White Paper on defence procurement makes disappointing reading for the UK defence industry — and for anyone who believes that one of the lessons of the last few years is that we need a more active industrial policy. IPPR set out the case in a recent report on globalisation, arguing for sustained support for industries, like defence, which have high potential for growth, for exp...

British suppliers will no longer have priority in supplying the Ministry of Defence, a government White Paper reveals.

Only exceptions will be buying British is essential to maintaining national security, says minister

Experts warn that buying off-the-shelf does not make sense when talking about big defence procurement programmes

If Muhammad won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Muhammad. Or so goes a saying popularised by Francis Bacon. It seems Andrew Mitchell, the Development Secretary, has taken this to heart and decided to move his entire Department — DfID — closer to the Foreign Office, MoD and, of course, No 10. After years of relishing its location — both geographically and fu...

The SNP's opposition to the location of British nuclear weapons in Scotland is well-known, and it mirrors majority Scottish public opinion pretty accurately. MoD thoughts are now turning to the knotty problem: if Trident is kicked out of Scotland where will it go?

Kevan Jones MP, Labour's Shadow Defence Minister, responding to reports of civilians job losses from the MoD said:

Civilian staff face job cuts as Ministers admit to £2bn budget overspend despite drastic overhaul of the armed services

The Ministry of Defence will cut a further 3,000 civilian posts on top of those already announced, the BBC learns.