Delivery to the frontline is still being put at risk by longstanding weaknesses in inventory management, despite the Ministry of Defence taking steps to improve, according to a new National Audit Office report.
This guide has been produced to support the Defence Select Committee in its examination of the Ministry of Defence’s spending and performance.
The Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan for the next decade is unaffordable and it is facing the largest budget deficit since the Plan was first published in 2012, according to a new report by the National Audit Office.
Our overview of the Ministry of Defence includes information on how the MoD spent £65bn in 2021-22, manages its major programmes and has responded to the conflict in Ukraine.
This report looks at how UKSV has performed in providing national security vetting services since 2018; what it is doing to ensure security vetting is completed in a timely way to ensure the continued protection and functioning of government; and what it is doing to modernise and reform.
This report examines the MoD’s progress implementing digital transformation.
The C&AG has reported on the 2021-22 accounts of the Ministry of Defence.
The C&AG has reported on the 2020-21 accounts of the Ministry of Defence.
Summary of the MOD’s spending in 2020-21, focusing on key messages from the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts.
This report examines the Ministry of Defence’s progress in optimising its estate and disposing of sites that are not needed.
Our Major Project Delivery Insights team are experts on a wide range of government projects, from infrastructure to defence equipment.
This study examines whether the Ministry of Defence’s Equipment Plan provides a reliable assessment of the affordability of the MoD’s equipment programmes over the next ten years.
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.
The C&AG has reported on the 2019-20 Ministry of Defence accounts.
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.
The C&AG has qualified his audit opinion on the 2018-19 accounts of Greenwich Hospital.
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 report examines whether the Ministry of Defence has managed to reduce the risks to affordability in its Equipment Plan.
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.