A summary of the Ministry of Defence spending in 2019-20, its major areas of activity and performance, and the challenges it is likely to face in the coming year, based on the insights from our financial audit and value for money work.
Audit committees should be scrutinising cyber security arrangements. To aid them, this guidance complements government advice by setting out high-level questions and issues for audit committees to consider.
We outline how the pandemic has moved many aspects of our lives online, helping us stay connected but making us more vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
This study examined whether the MoD gets the capabilities it requires when it needs them to meet its defence objectives.
The government recently published its new Cyber Security Strategy specifically aimed at building a cyber resilient public sector. Resilience is key in underpinning its vision to make the UK a cyber power in a world increasingly shaped by technologies that offer many benefits but also pose risks. The strategy reiterates that government remains an attractive […]
This report assesses the problems that the Ajax programme has encountered and the challenges the MoD faces in delivering it.
This report examines whether single living accommodation meets the needs of the Ministry of Defence and service personnel.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
This report examines the causes of persistent delays and cost increases that have affected the Ministry of Defence’s equipment contracts.
This report examines the MoD’s management of the programme since 2017 and the risks towards achieving Carrier Strike’s full capabilities.
Explore flood defence data by region or local authority with our interactive map tool.
This report examines how far the Ministry of Defence has embedded environmental sustainability in estate management, procurement, governance and policy-making.
We investigated the Ministry of Defence’s progress with submarine disposal and in implementing the projects needed to make this work.
This report reviews the robustness of assumptions underpinning the Ministry of Defence’s 2020–2030 Equipment Plan.
This report examines lessons from our work on major programmes, including transport, defence and energy programmes.
The C&AG has qualified his audit opinion on the 2018-19 accounts of the Ministry of Defence.
This report assesses the Ministry of Defence’s approach to reducing and reforming its civilian workforce.
This report examines how effectively the Cabinet Office coordinates the 2016–2021 National Cyber Security Programme.
This report examines whether the government tackles serious and organised crime in an effective and coherent way.
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.