UK Strategic Defence Review 2020 - get your bids in now ladies & gents
Also, problem at the moment for industry is MoD seems more concerned about replenishing stocks than funding shiny new toys.
Great if you're in the munition production business, less great if you're in the new product development business.
Programme delays incoming?
Great if you're in the munition production business, less great if you're in the new product development business.
Programme delays incoming?
Thread Starter
According to the Times today the current Chancellor, Hunt, is talking of freezing UK Defence spending for 5 years at least
Rumour today that all Govt departments, including Defence, will have budgets cut by 4%.
So much for 3%…
So much for 3%…
If Sunak keeps Hunt as Chancellor, I think the 3% is at risk, and Ben Wallace has publicly stated he will resign as SecDef if the pledge is not honoured. I for one would hate to see him go - he really does seem to have the best interests of the MoD at his heart.
With Ukraine, not to mention uncertainty around the world, I think now is not the time for a real-terms cut in Defence, but then again I am not a politician. If departments such as Health and Education have to take a hit, then I understand it would be politically difficult for Defence not to. I guess we will know soon enough...
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
NEW: @DefenceHQ will need about Ł8billion from the Treasury over the next 2 years to protect the defence budget *in real terms* against the impact of inflation & foreign exchange, Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP has just indicated in comments to @CommonsDefence
This is really important as it gives a sense of what Ben Wallace will be fighting for in his discussions with Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt just to maintain a planned increase in defence spending out to 2024/25 - let alone striving to increase the defence budget any further.
The Defence Secretary was specifically referring to the projected pressures caused by inflation and foreign exchange rates on the defence budget. He said: "The inflationary pressures on my budget for the next 2 years is about Ł8billion - and forex".
He continues: "The initial battle for the next few years is insulation from inflation and forex".….
This is really important as it gives a sense of what Ben Wallace will be fighting for in his discussions with Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt just to maintain a planned increase in defence spending out to 2024/25 - let alone striving to increase the defence budget any further.
The Defence Secretary was specifically referring to the projected pressures caused by inflation and foreign exchange rates on the defence budget. He said: "The inflationary pressures on my budget for the next 2 years is about Ł8billion - and forex".
He continues: "The initial battle for the next few years is insulation from inflation and forex".….
NEW: @DefenceHQ will need about Ł8billion from the Treasury over the next 2 years to protect the defence budget *in real terms* against the impact of inflation & foreign exchange, Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP has just indicated in comments to @CommonsDefence
This is really important as it gives a sense of what Ben Wallace will be fighting for in his discussions with Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt just to maintain a planned increase in defence spending out to 2024/25 - let alone striving to increase the defence budget any further.
The Defence Secretary was specifically referring to the projected pressures caused by inflation and foreign exchange rates on the defence budget. He said: "The inflationary pressures on my budget for the next 2 years is about Ł8billion - and forex".
He continues: "The initial battle for the next few years is insulation from inflation and forex".….
This is really important as it gives a sense of what Ben Wallace will be fighting for in his discussions with Chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt just to maintain a planned increase in defence spending out to 2024/25 - let alone striving to increase the defence budget any further.
The Defence Secretary was specifically referring to the projected pressures caused by inflation and foreign exchange rates on the defence budget. He said: "The inflationary pressures on my budget for the next 2 years is about Ł8billion - and forex".
He continues: "The initial battle for the next few years is insulation from inflation and forex".….
Thread Starter
"Defence, safe in the hands of the Tories eh?"
Never has been I'm afraid - all the way back to '56
The real problem is the the politicians insist on the UK playing a Great Power role but never put up the cash for it - I'd love to hear someone say
"we're going to spend 4% on the military so there goes the Pension Triple Lock folks!"
Never has been I'm afraid - all the way back to '56
The real problem is the the politicians insist on the UK playing a Great Power role but never put up the cash for it - I'd love to hear someone say
"we're going to spend 4% on the military so there goes the Pension Triple Lock folks!"
"Defence, safe in the hands of the Tories eh?"
Never has been I'm afraid - all the way back to '56
The real problem is the the politicians insist on the UK playing a Great Power role but never put up the cash for it - I'd love to hear someone say
"we're going to spend 4% on the military so there goes the Pension Triple Lock folks!"
Never has been I'm afraid - all the way back to '56
The real problem is the the politicians insist on the UK playing a Great Power role but never put up the cash for it - I'd love to hear someone say
"we're going to spend 4% on the military so there goes the Pension Triple Lock folks!"
Thread Starter
The NHS provides, historically, average outcomes for little money - the problem is its now providing awful outcomes for little money
Or probably more usefully say - "The NHS is a broken model. No other country on earth copies it. It consumes something like 15% of government spending and is always hungry for more. That funding model is fundamentally flawed and we intend to move towards a european style model where central funding is only a small part of the mix".
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Thread Starter
"15% (ish) of government expenditure is a bit more than "little money" in my opinion."
the comparison is with other countries
places like Germany spend a lot and have very good outcomes
Spain spends an average amount and gets average outcomes
the Uk spends relatively little and used to get average outcomes
the USA spends a fortune and gets poor outcomes
Indonesia spends little and gets poor outcomes
the comparison is with other countries
places like Germany spend a lot and have very good outcomes
Spain spends an average amount and gets average outcomes
the Uk spends relatively little and used to get average outcomes
the USA spends a fortune and gets poor outcomes
Indonesia spends little and gets poor outcomes
Or probably more usefully say - "The NHS is a broken model. No other country on earth copies it. It consumes something like 15% of government spending and is always hungry for more. That funding model is fundamentally flawed and we intend to move towards a european style model where central funding is only a small part of the mix".
Now, military aviation....
Thread Starter
ORAC - I was looking at Kings Fund reports - they compare (or try and compare) like with like - you have ot takeinto account that not every country handles social provision etc in the same way
Some even have a joined up health and social system!
Some even have a joined up health and social system!
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Excellent thread with some salient points.
Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante says Ukraine has helped him understand what really matters. "What really matters is production."
"We as a country did our best to not do production," LaPlante said. "We all accepted that just in time was the way to go," LaPlante says.
This is why we have a valley of death because we don't want to do production….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...586646528.html
Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante says Ukraine has helped him understand what really matters. "What really matters is production."
"We as a country did our best to not do production," LaPlante said. "We all accepted that just in time was the way to go," LaPlante says.
This is why we have a valley of death because we don't want to do production….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...586646528.html
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Recognising this, MoD had a mandatory Defence Standard to facilitate it.
Its use was forbidden (but still mandated) from 1991, following the move in April 1990 from 'just in time' to 'not in time', whereby replenishment would not commence until there were outstanding demands.
As part of this, and to hasten the run down of stocks, serviceable spares and War Reserves were scrapped.
I wonder if the US ever graduated to not in time? That AMSO policy took a special kind of incompetence.
Its use was forbidden (but still mandated) from 1991, following the move in April 1990 from 'just in time' to 'not in time', whereby replenishment would not commence until there were outstanding demands.
As part of this, and to hasten the run down of stocks, serviceable spares and War Reserves were scrapped.
I wonder if the US ever graduated to not in time? That AMSO policy took a special kind of incompetence.
Thread Starter
Nothing wrong withe policy when the USSR had just collapsed - but, like the 10 year rule between the wars, these things tend to become entrenched as it means you have to suddenly start spending money when you reverse them.
And I suggest that there is something very wrong with a policy that scraps spares, then immediately procures replacements (because one hand doesn't know what the other is doing), only for them to be scrapped again, and so on for at least 8 years.
There is everything wrong with driving a coach and horses through regulations and procedures that were developed over decades to ensure that whatever was put into service was fit for use and, in the case of military aviation, airworthy. The deliberate sabotage of those regulations by RAF VSOs that Tuc alludes to wasn't for the purpose of harvesting a Peace Dividend but to cover up the incompetence of those same RAF VSOs and their desperate need to raid ring-fenced Air Safety budgets to fund the results of that incompetence. Their cover up has in turn been continued to this day by succeeding generations of VSOs in order to protect the reputation of the Star Chamber. As a result, airworthiness related fatal accidents continue and UK Military Air Power remains compromised. There is everything wrong with that I would suggest.