Lest we forget our troops died because MoD spent £600m of equipment budget on outside consultants and advisers!

Lest we forget our troops died because MoD spent £600m of equipment budget on outside consultants and advisers!

A report highlights a catalogue of flaws in the way defence contracts were awarded in breach of government guidelines.

The internal audit warns that control of the MoD’s funds appeared to be “poorly developed or non-existent” and that contracts were not adequately scrutinised before being approved.

Officials also made little or no effort to ensure that contracts provided value for money, the report concluded.

Since 2009, the MoD spent £564 million buying in "technical support" for teams running the department's biggest engineering and procurement projects.