The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is "throwing away millions" of tax payers money on poorly designed private finance initiative (PFI) projects, according to national audit office (NAO) statistics released today.
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PoliticsCoUk on 30th Oct 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has been criticised for being over budget and late with major projects, in a report by the National Audit Office (NAO).
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PoliticsCoUk on 18th Dec 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
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...
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Spectator on 17th Dec 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Bernard Gray, author of a hard-hitting report on the way the ministry of defence acquires military equipment, is appointed the MoD's chief of defence materiel
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FT on 17th Dec 2010 (via ft.com)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been criticised over its failure to update the UK's Defence Industrial Strategy.
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PoliticsCoUk on 26th Feb 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
The Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) is a major IT programme which is already delivering benefits to the UK's front-line troops and to the wider Ministry of Defence (MoD). It is one of the largest IT projects in Europe and will provide a single, secure and coherent computer infrastructure across the whole of Defence while maintaining essential operational continuity.
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PublicTechnology on 16th Jan 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
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.
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Scotsman on 26th Apr 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced yesterday the sale of its remaining ordinary shares in QinetiQ Group plc at a price of 206 pence per share.
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PublicTechnology on 11th Sep 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
From Lords Hansard: "Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government: Whether the Ministry of Defence has any contracts with Starbucks for the supply of materials or services. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Baroness Taylor of Bolton): Information held centrally by the Ministry of Defence indicates that MoD has no direct contracts with Starbucks for the supply of ma...
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TheCroydonian on 26th Nov 2008 (via croydonian.blogspot.com)
The private details of 100,000 armed forced personnel has gone missing, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted.
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PoliticsCoUk on 10th Oct 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
A "conspiracy of optimism" in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is masking the department's ongoing failures, a Commons report has found.
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PoliticsCoUk on 21st Jul 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
