News broke yesterday that another disgraceful and dangerous loss of data had taken place at the MoD. The personal details of up to 1.7 million people who had applied to join the armed forces have been stolen. Even more astoundingly,...
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TaxPayersAlliance on 14th Oct 2008 (via tpa.typepad.com)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has launched a public consultation on the early transfer of some historic armed forces service personnel records to The National Archives.
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PublicTechnology on 16th Jul 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
One of the armed forces' oldest airfields could be sold off to private investors under plans being considered to help the MoD cope with budget cuts.
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BBCPolitics on 26th Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
A £2 billion deal assuring Britain's armed forces supply of bullets and other munitions has been penned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and BAE Systems LSM.
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PoliticsCoUk on 20th Aug 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
The personal details of over 1.7 million individuals who enquired about joining the armed forces were included in the removable hard drive lost by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), it has been revealed.
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PoliticsCoUk on 13th Oct 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
Below are the latest injury compensation rates under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme - full details are in JSP765 HERE. The rates relate to lengthy tables of the various grades of wounds our armed forces suffer in battle; losing a foot below the ankle in a landmine blast, for example, is number 8, whilst loss of a leg below the knee is number 6. These are one-off payments. The MoD are not muc...
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Raedwald on 10th May 2009 (via raedwald.blogspot.com)
A third of armed forces families are unhappy with the standard of their MoD housing, a National Audit Office report suggests.
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BBCPolitics on 18th Mar 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
According to Fraser Nelson the armed forces budget will be cut by 20 per cent by a Conservative government. How did this happen? We are at war. The armed forces are stretched to breaking point. Conservative Home surveys find the...
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CentreRight on 17th Jan 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
The armed forces minister denies claims that soldiers' lives are being put at risk by poor MoD systems for buying new equipment.
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BBCPolitics on 23rd Aug 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Significant cuts in the number of Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and military top brass will help fund a pay rise for junior ranks in the Armed Forces, the Liberal Democrats said.
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Telegraph on 26th Apr 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Saturday, I learnt from watching the news yesterday, was our first ever Armed Forces Day. According to the official website “The first Armed Forces Day is 27 June 2009, and is an opportunity for the nation to show our support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community” The tradition in the
