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(UK) Ministry of Expense: MoD errors cost taxpayer £344million in just one year
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/503834/Ministry-of-Defence-errors-cost-taxpayer-millions-one-year-projects-wrong-equipment-cuts
UNBELIEVABLE: Errors at the Ministry of Defence have cost the taxpayer more than £300m
Ministry of Expense: MoD errors cost taxpayer £344million in just one year
By Isobel Dickinson & Matthew Davis / Published 27th March 2016
The revelation comes as servicemen and women are suffering morale-sapping cuts and staff reductions.
The amount frittered away could have paid the average wage of 17,200 soldiers or bought 40 Apache helicopters, 86 Challenger 2 tanks or three new F35 fighter jets.
The shocking scale of waste in just 12 months is today laid bare in the annual report from the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
It reveals a string of aborted programmes, write-offs and careless book-keeping.