Download or read book Control and Management of the Defence Estate written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Public Accounts Committee and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 16th Report written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ministry of Defence and PSA written by Comptroller and Auditor General (Ireland) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ministry of Defence and Property Services Agency written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ministry of Defence Property Services Agency written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Control and Management of the Defence Estate Ministry of Defence and Property Services Agency written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Control and Management of the Defence Estate written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing the Defence Estate written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence has a worldwide estate valued at some £18 billion and is the second largest landowner in the UK. The total annual operating cost of the estate was estimated at £3.3 million in 2005-06. This report, following on from an earlier report in 2005 (ISBN 9780102932768), looks at the changes introduced to reverse the deterioration in the quality of the estate and also the programme of estate rationalisation. It is in two parts, the first is entitled 'delivering an estate of the right quality' and the second 'managing, measuring and planning'. The conclusion is that new arrangements have improved the delivery of estate services, however it is still too early to say that this will result in a better quality estate. For this to happen there needs to be continued commitment, supplier innovation and client leadership, with sufficient stability of funding.
Download or read book Managing the Defence Estate written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-05-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at the management by the Defence Estates Agency, of the land and property owned by the Ministry of Defence. The estate is worth some £15.3 billion, and costs £1.3 billion to run, with the MoD as one of the largest landowners in the UK with land covering some 240,000 hectares. The Estate itself consists of such facilities as barracks, depots, aircraft hangers and naval bases, as well as training grounds and ranges. Also the MoD has direct managerial responsibility for 200 sites of special scientific interest, along with responsibility for over 1600 listed buildings and monuments. The NAO recognizes the operational challenges of managing such a large utility, but commends the MoD for developing a strategy that saw contractual arrangements deliver higher quality and estate rationalization, along with improved customer satisfaction. There had been a deterioration in the estate due to shortfalls in spending, and the use of traditional methods in the procuring and managing of estate services. The selling off of surplus land has earned the MoD £1.2 billion, and five new regional contracts have been signed to improve the estate. Insufficient funding due to conflicting defence priorities may hamper long-term efficiencies, and that there is more to be done to consolidate recent cultural changes in the organization of contracts for running the estate, especially the move towards large centrally-managed contracts.
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Monday 9 February 1987 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Committee of Public Accounts Sixteenth Report Control and Management of the Defence Estate written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Geographies written by Rachel Woodward and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. Sets a new agenda for the study of military geography with its critical analysis of the ways in which military control over space is legitimized. Explores the ways in which militarism and military activities control development, the use of space and our understanding of place. Focuses on military lands, establishments and personnel in contemporary peacetime settings. Uses examples from Europe, North America and Australasia. Draws on original research into the mechanisms by which the British government manages the defence estate. Illustrated with maps, plans and other figures.
Download or read book A defence estate of the right size to meet operational needs written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence, one of the largest landowners in the UK, has strengthened its estate planning and achieved significant receipts from disposal of property but the changes are not yet sufficient to drive value for money for the taxpayer rigorously. While the defence estate primarily exists to support defence capabilities, the Department has not matched its focus on operational needs with enough attention to efficient use of its estate assets and to reducing costs. This report acknowledges that, between 1998 and 2008, the MOD identified and took opportunities to rationalise that part of its UK estate not needed for training, generating £3.4 billion from the sale of surplus property. Nevertheless, over the same period the Department reduced the number of civilian and military personnel three times faster than it reduced its built estate. This raises a clear question about whether there are opportunities to reduce the estate further and secure cost savings and further disposal receipts. The NAO also concludes that the Department's process for categorising sites is rightly driven by operational requirements but it does not give sufficient weight to other factors such as how heavily a site is used, running costs, or potential income from sale. The MOD also lacks sufficient data centrally to conduct the necessary analysis to help it reduce costs in a structured way. This report identified five categories of information needed to identify the scope for further estate rationalisation: operational importance; utilisation; condition; potential value; and running costs.
Download or read book Managing the defence estate written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has an extensive and complex estate of some 24,000 hectares, and after the Forestry Commission, is the second largest landowner in the UK. The estate is valued at over £18 billion and costs some £3.3 billion to operate. The estate is seen as essential to the delivery of military capability and the welfare and morale of Service personnel. This report, from the Committee of Public Accounts, has taken evidence from the MoD on the standard of living accommodation, the Department's ability to prioritise estate projects effectively, and its response to staff shortages. It follows on from an NAO report (HCP 154, session 2006-7), Managing the Defence Estate: Quality and Sustainability (ISBN 9780102944679). It sets out 9 recommendations, including: more than half of single living accommodation and over 40% of family accommodation does not meet the Department's definition of high-quality accommodation and is therefore substandard; that poor accommodation has a negative impact on retention rates; there is no information on when poor accommodation is to be upgraded, with some military personnel and their families having to continue to live in substandard housing for the next 20 years; there are gaps in the Department's understanding of estate costs; the Department employs only 56% of safety works staff and 57% of quantity surveyors that it needs; that implementing energy saving measures at its' defence sites would bring environmental benefits and savings of more than £2 million annually.
Download or read book Maintenance of the Defence Estate written by Australian National Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The object of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the management of maintenance of the Defence estate, taking particular account of planning and delivery aspects." -- p. 13.
Download or read book Development of the Redundant Defence Estate written by Fuller Peiser and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the result of an extensive study that was undertaken to review the existing policy context of Ministry of Defence (MOD) disposals in England, and to advise Government on how it should seek to obtain value for money whilst having regard to the wider interest of Government. The research process involved five main areas of work - a literature search, a review of all relevant policy guidance, interviews and written consultations, seminars for property professionals and nine detailed case studies.
Download or read book National Audit Office Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General Ministry of Defence and Property Services Agency written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
