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MoD slammed over replacing equipment
A secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has concluded that the department's systems for acquiring new equipment are so inefficient they should be privatised. Skip related content
The devastating report by Bernard Gray, a former adviser to Labour defence ministers, has found that the problems were so severe they were "harming our ability ... to conduct difficult current operations", according to The Sunday Times which has obtained a leaked copy.
It concluded that the MoD's equipment programme was £35 billion over budget, five years behind schedule, and could not be afforded in the long-term
The report was originally commissioned by the former Defence Secretary John Hutton and was supposed to have been published before Parliament broke for the summer recess last month.
However, ministers have now said that it will "feed in" to the forthcoming defence green paper, to be published early next year, which will pave the way for a full-scale strategic defence review once the general election is out of the way.
A MoD spokesman said the report would be published in due course
A secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has concluded that the department's systems for acquiring new equipment are so inefficient they should be privatised. Skip related content
The devastating report by Bernard Gray, a former adviser to Labour defence ministers, has found that the problems were so severe they were "harming our ability ... to conduct difficult current operations", according to The Sunday Times which has obtained a leaked copy.
It concluded that the MoD's equipment programme was £35 billion over budget, five years behind schedule, and could not be afforded in the long-term
The report was originally commissioned by the former Defence Secretary John Hutton and was supposed to have been published before Parliament broke for the summer recess last month.
However, ministers have now said that it will "feed in" to the forthcoming defence green paper, to be published early next year, which will pave the way for a full-scale strategic defence review once the general election is out of the way.
A MoD spokesman said the report would be published in due course
