Category: Business and Politics
The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Fixing stuff squaddies have been breaking for decades and not the Royal Engineers Made Easy as some would have you believe Great images from the MoD that illustrates perfectly the span of equipment and skills needed to support a modern Army. Read more at the REME Museum and REME pages on the Army web site. [...]
The F35 and MoD Credibility
I have been writing about Project CVF since I started running my ill-educated mouth off on the pages of Think Defence (bloody hell, is it really 4 years ago) and I can’t remember a time when the Daily Mail esque words of national disgrace have been apt, but if the recent article in the Telegraph [...]
Parliamentary Answers – Week Commencing 19th March 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Budget Smoke and Mirrors
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has now delivered his budget speech and in it were two or three defence related issues; Government spending in Afghanistan will be £2.4bn lower than planned over remainder of parliament This is of course not from the defence budget but from the Treasury reserve Accommodation Improvements More money for service personnel and their [...]
Parliamentary Answers – week commencing March 12th 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Parliamentary Answers – week commencing March 5th 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Planning Round 12
Towards the end of March the outcome of PR12 will become known and much of the speculation about carriers, aircraft, formations and almost everything should become clearer. So this is a sweep stake post, is it all going to be bad news, what surprises are the MoD going to pull out of the bag (there [...]
Parliamentary Answers – Week Ending 2nd March 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Parliamentary Answers – to 23rd February 2012
This is a regular round up of Parliamentary questions and answers from ministers relevant to defence issues In addition to oral questions, MPs and Peers can ask government ministers questions for written answer. These are often used to obtain detailed information about policies and statistics on the activities of government departments. In the House of [...]
Labour Launch Defence Review
Jim Murphy has today launched the Labour Party’s Shadow Defence Review Click the image to visit the review site and obtain a copy of the review paper. I will have a a more in depth look at this later but in the meantime, have a video
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