The government's biggest private finance initiative, a multibillion-pound plan to hive-off training for the armed forces, is in trouble, subject to delays, financial problems, and increases in cost, the Ministry of Defence has said. The long-planned project, known as the defence training review, first proposed a decade ago, has been put off for at least two years and its estimated initial cos...

A radical reorganisation of the armed forces reserves, which would see them integrated more fully with regular forces and better trained, was announced by the Ministry of Defence yesterday. It will involve a cut of about 2,000 posts, mainly as a result of modern communications systems replacing traditional signallers. However, Ministry of Defence officials said that far from cutting their numbers,...

The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP yesterday made a written statement to the House of Commons, explaining that the Ministry of Defence had seen another data loss - this time of 1.7 million potential Armed Forces recruits.

The Ministry of Defence must improve the way it hands over homes to armed forces families, says a Commons watchdog.

The Telegraph reports serious concerns at the readiness of the Armed Forces: "Less than half of all military units are able to deploy on operations in an emergency, the lowest number ever recorded by the Ministry of Defence. MPs rounded...

SOME 12,000 jobs would be axed in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) under Liberal Democrat plans to boost the pay of lower ranks in the armed forces.

The Ministry of Defence has set out details of a £250 million cut in armed forces' allowances by 2014-15.

Two former heads of the military yesterday accused the government of failing the armed forces following a cash-saving review of the defence budget.

Yesterday, Liam Fox vowed to install a tougher procurement system in the Ministry of Defence and appointed the bureaucracy-busting Bernard Grey as Chief of Defence Materiel. The Defence Secretary said that it is important to start from first principles if reform is to take place. The ministry, he said, "exists to provide the Armed Forces with what they need". But is that right? The MoD e...

Have just been looking through Hansard and I spy Quentin Davies is talking absolute complete bollocks in response to a pretty ordinary question. He was asked what ICT projects the Ministry of Defence and its agenc ies were currently carrying out and started his response by saying,An ICT project can vary from installing single computers and software licences to major programmes, such as the Defence...