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  1. Tackling serious and organised crime

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    This report examines whether the government tackles serious and organised crime in an effective and coherent way.

  2. The Defence Nuclear Enterprise: a landscape review

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    This landscape report aims to help Parliament better understand the complexities of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise by describing how the Ministry of Defence needs to bring together its programmes, including production of the new deterrent submarines, to provide a continuous at sea deterrent.

  4. Providing Anti Air Warfare Capability: the Type 45 destroyer

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    The project to replace the UK’s ageing Anti Air Warfare capability, which is currently provided by the Type 42 destroyer, has suffered significant delays of over two years and costs have escalated to some £6½ billion, up by nearly 30 per cent from initial estimates of £5 billion. More recently, the project has progressed well, […]

  5. The privatisation of QinetiQ

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    The Ministry of Defence’s privatisation of the defence technology business QinetiQ safeguarded the viability of a business of national strategic importance and generated significant proceeds for the taxpayer. However, the NAO believes the taxpayer could have received more money from the deal. Risks remain which the MoD must manage carefully if long term value for […]

  7. Successful commissioning toolkit
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    This page is part of our successful commissioning toolkit. This section summarises sections on risk management in “Intelligent Monitoring: an Element of Financial Relationships with Third Sector Organisations” published by the National Audit Office in 2009. What is risk management? Any financial agreement carries some risk [Note 1].  Manage risk, do not seek to eliminate it.  […]

  8. Ministry of Defence – Battlefield Helicopters

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    Pooling the Royal Navy’s, Army’s and Royal Air Force’s battlefield helicopters has brought significant benefits, Sir John Bourn, the head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today. Efficiencies have been produced through a joined up approach, by standardising procedures and removing duplication, but there is a large shortfall in helicopter capability and further improvements […]

  10. Ministry of Defence. Delivering digital tactical communications through the Bowman CIP programme

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    The Ministry of Defence’s £2.4 billion programme to transform battlefield communications, command and control through the joint introduction of Bowman digital radios and the advanced Combat Infrastructure Platform (CIP) to an exacting 30 month timescale, has been recast. A revised programme and a further £121 million of funding have been approved to deliver the capabilities […]

  12. Ensuring sufficient skilled military personnel

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    This report reviews whether the Ministry of Defence has an effective approach to developing the capability of its regular forces, and how it is adapting to meet the new challenges.

  13. Ministry of Defence Major Projects Report 2005

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    The National Audit Office’s annual report on the top 20 defence equipment projects shows that, in the last year, the forecast cost has actually decreased by £700 million but on average each project has been delayed by two and a half months. The delays are mainly due to technical problems in three projects: CIP (which […]

  14. Transforming logistics support for fast jets

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    The changes to how the Ministry of Defence maintains and repairs Harrier and Tornado aircraft have reduced costs by a total of £1.4 billion over the last six years. Although availability of the aircraft temporarily declined during the transition period, availability targets for the Harrier are now being met and for the Tornado, where the […]

  16. The Ministry of Defence’s arrangement with Annington Property Limited

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    The Ministry of Defence (the Department) has committed itself to annual rental bills of nearly £200 million and lost out on billions of pounds of asset value as a result of selling and leasing back the majority of its married quarters estate to Annington Property Limited in 1996 because of the subsequent steep increase in house prices and rents.

  17. Ministry of Defence: Compensation claims

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    Sir John Bourn, Head of the National Audit Office, told Parliament today that the costs of compensation claims paid by the Ministry of Defence are on the increase and that more can be done to keep down the cost of handling claims and to improve the service to claimants.  Compensation and legal costs have risen […]

  18. Ministry of Defence – Quality of Housing Services to Service Families Overseas

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported today that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) does well to manage the difficult job of having housing available for Service personnel and their families when posted overseas. However, it needs to adopt a greater customer focus in its delivery of housing services overseas. It also […]

  20. Ministry of Defence: Through Life Management

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    Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, reported to Parliament today that Through-Life Management of the delivery of military capability is complex. It involves major change for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and those doing business with it. The MoD has more to do to embed the Through-Life Management approach and realise the […]