{"id":40472,"date":"2018-01-31T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40472"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T15:51:03","slug":"the-naos-not-impressed-by-the-ministry-of-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/31\/the-naos-not-impressed-by-the-ministry-of-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"The NAO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not impressed by the Ministry of Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just scanned a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/report\/ministry-of-defence-the-equipment-plan-2017-to-2027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Audit Office news release<\/a> which says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ministry of Defence: The Equipment Plan 2017 to 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence\u2019s (the Department\u2019s) ten year Equipment Plan is not affordable and does not provide a realistic forecast of the costs the Department will have to meet over the next 10 years buying and supporting the equipment it has determined the Armed Forces need.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a time for subtlety.<\/p>\n<p>The NAO clearly decided this was not one such occasion.<\/p>\n<p>I think this might be called a pretty poor fail. But that is worrying in the context of a government that does not appear to be able to get much else right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just scanned a National Audit Office news release which says: Ministry of Defence: The Equipment Plan 2017 to 2027 The Ministry of Defence\u2019s (the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/31\/the-naos-not-impressed-by-the-ministry-of-defence\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}