Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2011 12 written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sets out the annual report and accounts of the Ministry of Defence for the year 2008-09, including a summary of performance against the Public Service Agreement (PSA) objectives and targets. The second volume of the report contains the consolidated departmental resource accounts for 2008-08 and annexes9

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2011 12 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 828, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780215054647)

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2010 11 written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ministry of Defence annual report and Accounts 2010-11 : For the year ended 31 March 2011

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2010 11 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to HC 1635, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215040749)

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the sixth successive year, the Ministry of Defence Accounts were qualified. The Qualifications covered non-compliance with international reporting standards on the treatment of some contracts; lack of audit evidence on the valuation of inventory (worth some £3 billion) and of capital spares (worth some £7 billion); and on the regularity of the Accounts because of the failure to obtain approval for the remuneration package of the Chief of Defence Materiel. The MoD was also five months late in submitting its audited accounts to Parliament. The National Audit Office had found errors in its sample examination of accruals and so the MoD decided to resolve these problems before submitting the accounts. The MoD said they did not have the necessary expertise to manage the financial complexity that featured in the implementation of the Strategic Defence and Security Review so sought assistance. The MoD should ensure its people have the right skills to deal with all financial problems so that they do not need to bring in expensive external accountants. There is also concern about the MoD's reluctance to estimate the full costs of its operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The NAO did not consider that the MoD has adequate information, especially with respect to recording the cost of its activities and outputs, to run its business effectively. The MoD should set out its commitment to improving its management information. It is also vital that defence spending remains at more than 2 per cent of GDP in line with the UK's NATO commitment.

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2010 11 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Defence Committee report into the MoD's Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11 focuses on the resource accounts, the MoD's performance, and personnel matters. The Armed Forces redundancy programme is expected to deliver up to 11,000 redundancies across the three Services. Civil servant redundancies have a target of 15,000. The Committee is disturbed that 40 per cent of planned military redundancies are to be compulsory while the MoD's current civilian redundancies will be entirely voluntary. The Permanent Under Secretary told the Committee that civilians are flexibly employable whereas the military are not. This runs contrary to the Committee's experience of the breadth of the military training and the skills shown by personnel as witnessed on operations. For the fifth successive year, the MoD's Annual Accounts have been qualified. In 2010-11, the MoD did not comply with international financial reporting as laid down by the Treasury and has no plans to do so for the foreseeable future. The MoD could also not provide adequate audit evidence for over £5.2 billion worth of certain inventory and capital spares. These problems are likely to persist until, at the very earliest, 2014-15. The Committee is concerned that the level of theft and fraud in the MoD appear generally to be increasing year on year. The MoD need to clarify the roles of the various police and security forces dealing with fraud and theft and provide further information on how the problems of prevention, detection and recovery are being managed.

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Download or read book Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Annual Report and Accounts 2011 12 written by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laboratory is part of the Ministry of Defence - the in-house Science and Technology organisation

Download or read book Ministry of Defence main estimates 2011 12 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) must put into the public domain the full cost of military operations in Afghanistan. This report notes that although there are obvious standing expenses, the Afghan deployment brings with it additional costs in terms of training opportunities cancelled or deferred and equipment wear and tear that will eventually have to be met. The Committee is also disappointed by the Department's inability to provide the detailed information requested about expected write-offs such as Nimrod and the Type 22 Frigate. The MoD was not clear but the Committee deduce that some of the 2010-11 provision for depreciation and write-offs will be carried forward to 2011-12 or even later years. There is also concern that the voluntary redundancy programme has been over-subscribed and that applications (or even resignations) have been received from individuals who might have achieved high command and asks the MoD to show how it will ensure that the voluntary redundancy process does not impact on the future leadership capability and effectiveness of the Armed Services

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2008 09 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to HC 52 (ISBN 9780215544063)

Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2012 13 written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 653, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215066077)

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Download or read book Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2014 15 written by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print and web pdfs available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474123365

Download or read book Ministry of Defence supplementary estimate 2011 12 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MoD sought, in the Estimate, a net increase in Capital and Resource Expenditure (Departmental Expenditure Limits-DELs) of £2,804 million which generated an additional cash requirement of £644 million. It also sought a reduction in Annually Managed Expenditure of some £1,063 million. The Committee welcomes the MoD's efforts to improve the management of assets and stock. They recognise that such exercises and the implementation of the Strategic Defence Security Review are likely to result in significant write-offs, but we would expect the MoD to have a greater understanding of the financial implications of these write-offs and, therefore, greater certainty of the non-cash costs by the time the Main Estimates and the Supplementary Estimates for 2012-13 are prepared. They recommend that, if the way expenditure is classified is changed in future, the MoD should provide a comparison of expenditure on a like-for-like basis between years within its memorandum on the Supplementary Estimates and should also provide full details of the items and amounts affected and the reasons for the changes. In general, while the Committee has no argument with the content of the MoD's Supplementary Estimate, it is unreasonable to expect Committees and Parliament to scrutinise the Supplementary Estimates in less than three weeks. More time is needed to consider the Supplementary Estimate, the associated memorandum and the MoD's responses to questions on the Estimate.

Download or read book Ministry of Defence written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence has now reported on the affordability of its ten-year forward plan to purchase and support military equipment (the Equipment Plan) totalling some £159 billion, as well as its progress on delivering its largest projects in 2012. The Department has made a good start but there are concerns about over-optimistic assumptions, the completeness and robustness of support cost estimates, and risks to capability. The affordability of the Plan is based on an agreement between the Department and HM Treasury that it will receive a one per cent annual increase in its equipment budget over the period from 2015-16 to 2020-21. If this is now not achieved in the current fiscal circumstances then the current plan may well be unaffordable. The addition of a contingency provision of £4.8 billion is a positive step, however this may not be sufficient to absorb cost growth. In addition, the Department lacks a robust understanding of the support costs, and the associated risks, including the size of the budget that may be required to recover equipment from Afghanistan. The Department also faces a particular challenge in delivering projects to agreed timescales. Ultimately, the Department bears the risk of these delays in terms of military capability and we need greater transparency on these risks and how they are mitigated. This includes the Department being clear on the impact on capability if the £8 billion that is currently unallocated in the budget cannot be used for purchasing new equipment because it is needed to absorb cost growth

Download or read book War on Drugs and Anglo American Relations written by Philip A. Berry and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through interviews with key policy practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic, this study reveals the complex picture of counter narcotics strategy in Afghanistan. It highlights the key points of cooperation and contention, and details the often contradictory and competitive objectives of the overall war effort in Afghanistan. Western counter-narcotics policies in Afghanistan failed dismally after opium poppy cultivation surged to unprecedented levels. The Anglo-American partnership at the centre of this battleground was divided by competing and opposing views of how to address the opium problem, which troubled the well-established Anglo-American relationship.

Download or read book The Armed Forces Covenant in Action Part 2 Accommodation written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence given to the Committee showed that Armed Forces personnel and their families valued accommodation very highly and saw it as part of their terms and conditions of employment and as promoting unit cohesion and support for families when personnel were deployed on operations. The provision of accommodation was particularly important for those who were required to be mobile; it was the only option allowing families to live together. It is also clear that for many personnel, Service Families Accommodation is the only affordable housing solution. Indeed, the Families Federation said that inquiries and complaints about accommodation account for more than half of the regular communications they receive. So when the Committee considered the MoD's decision to halt upgrade work on accommodation for the next three years, they saw it as damaging to the Covenant and recommended that the MoD look again urgently at the stoppage, which, in any case, could well be a false economy. In early 2012, the MoD began work on the New Employment Model, looking at how Armed Forces personnel are employed. One element of this is the Future Accommodation. The Committee recommends that this project should be sufficiently flexible to meet the needs of the three individual Services by allowing sufficient variation to meet their differing needs. They should also take account of the needs of personnel at different stages in their lives and careers. Given the fragility of morale we recommend that the MoD should use a more effective communications strategy to keep Service families in the picture