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27th Dec 2002, 08:44
The Daily Telgraph carried a story that the FY01/02 costs for the sandpit games were some £25M as against £221M for FY02/03 so far.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F12%2F26%2Fwirq26.xml
Costs soar as raids on Iraqi air defences escalate
By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 26/12/2002
In the last financial year, RAF patrols of the no-fly zones cost £25 million. The cost for the current financial year is already put at £221 million, not including a full-scale war, while the amount of explosives dropped on Iraq has increased from an average of 9.5 tons a month last year to 54 tons in September alone.
Given the parlous state of the fiscal limitations placed upon MoD by the Treasury, is there not an argument that all such costs should be billed to the Foreign Office, with a 30 day payment notice.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F12%2F26%2Fwirq26.xml
Costs soar as raids on Iraqi air defences escalate
By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 26/12/2002
In the last financial year, RAF patrols of the no-fly zones cost £25 million. The cost for the current financial year is already put at £221 million, not including a full-scale war, while the amount of explosives dropped on Iraq has increased from an average of 9.5 tons a month last year to 54 tons in September alone.
Given the parlous state of the fiscal limitations placed upon MoD by the Treasury, is there not an argument that all such costs should be billed to the Foreign Office, with a 30 day payment notice.