To know whether training is improving, the Department needs to set a performance baseline and the right performance measures. However, it does not effectively use the data it has to understand current training performance. For example, it does not hold data centrally on training activity and does not routinely analyse the pockets of data it has or subject them to comprehensive quality control. It therefore has no baseline for training times or costs from which it can measure Ascent’s performance or set meaningful performance targets.
If MoD didn't already measure training activity as above, how did it know contractorisation would be a good idea in the first place?
Gotcha! The entire contractorisation game is headline budget cuts and nothing else.