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The Ministry of Defence is a touch evasive about specific costings, but we know that nothing it touches comes cheap.
Ditch the Falklands Peter Preston 2010
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The Ministry of Defence is the subject of two very damaging stories this morning.
Dereliction of duty 2009
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The Ministry of Defence is the subject of two very damaging stories this morning.
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One interesting aspect of the media show which accompanied the adventure in the South Atlantic was the manner in which the War Office (aka Ministry of Defence) censored all TV reports by running a thick cable from the TV cameras to caravans installed outside Downing Street where all reports would be monitored and adjusted to Government requirements.
Pro Patria Mori? 2007
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We thus have the bizarre situation where the US military is now riding in trucks built by a British-owned company, while its products have been rejected by our own Ministry of Defence, which is now actively promoting trucks built in Austria by a German company.
Archive 2007-06-01 Richard 2007
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The Treasury is being as helpful is it can be to the Ministry of Defence, that is what is happening here.
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Deborah Haynes and David Robertson in the Times paywall say a Times investigation has shown that "the Ministry of Defence is a dysfunctional organisation that wastes £6bn a year and whose deficiencies have led to shortages of equipment and the deaths of dozens of servicemen".
The Guardian World News Andrew Sparrow 2010
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The overall annual budget for the Ministry of Defence, which is £35 billion for the current year (2009-10) will be "ring-fenced" for 2010-11
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The overall annual budget for the Ministry of Defence, which is £35 billion for the current year (2009-10) will be "ring-fenced" for 2010-11
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The third largest share of the Budget is allocated to the Ministry of Defence, which is set to receive N$3,014 billion - an increase of 16 per cent on its budget last year.
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