Pounds 1 Billion for Nothing ; Defence Bosses Spend Millions On Armoured Vehicles but Not a Single One Is Delivered Mps' Anger Over Spending On Armoured Vehicles

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The Ministry of Defence was under fire from MPs yesterday for spending Pounds 1.1 billion on programmes to acquire armoured vehicles, without delivering a single vehicle in more than a decade. In a scathing report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said the MoD had proved to be both "indecisive and over-ambitious" in its attempts to manage the programme.

It expressed dismay that noone within the MoD had been held responsible for the repeated failures, which have meant that British troops will not have all the vehicles they need until at least 2025.

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Pounds 1 Billion for Nothing ; Defence Bosses Spend Millions On Armoured Vehicles but Not a Single One Is Delivered Mps' Anger Over Spending On Armoured Vehicles

Since the 1998 strategic defence review under Labour, the committee said the MoD had spent Pounds 1.1 billion...

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