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CARRIER STRIKE
THE 2012 REVERSION DECISION, EIGHTEENTH REPORT OF SESSION 2013-14, REPORT, TOGETHER WITH FORMAL MINUTES, ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE |
| By: |
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, Margaret Hodge |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0215060903 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780215060907 |
| Publisher: |
TSO |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2013 |
| Series: |
House of Commons Papers |
| Pages: |
34 |
| Synopsis: |
The Carrier strike u-turn will cost the taxpayer at least GBP74 million. When this programme got the green light in 2007, we were supposed to get two aircraft carriers, available from 2016 and 2018, at a cost to the taxpayer of GBP3.65 billion. We are now on course to spend GBP5.5 billion and have no aircraft carrier capability for nearly a decade. The MOD rushed into a decision in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review. Just 18 months later they were forced to admit they had got it wrong and revert to the original choice of aircraft. At the time of the SDSR the Department believed the cost of converting the carriers for the new aircraft would be between GBP500 million and GBP800 million. By May 2012 it had realised that the true cost would be as a high as GBP2 billion. Officials also made basic errors such as forgetting to include the costs of VAT and inflation. There are still concerns now. According to current plans, the early warning radar system essential for protecting the carrier will not be available for operation until 2022, two years after the first carrier and aircraft are delivered and initially operated.And the MOD does not yet have the funding to replace the shipping needed to support the new carrier. To avoid making the same mistakes again the MOD needs to start planning now for the next SDSR in 2015, including making sure that this time it has the right information on which to base decisions |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
TSO |
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