Defence spending questioned




Ministry of Defence officials will appear before a session of the Public Accounts Committee in February to explain why the National Audit Office failed to approve the MoD’s appropriation accounts for 1998/99. This month John Bourn, comptroller and auditor-general of the NAO, refused to qualify the accounts, pointing to nearly £30 million of losses on two IT...

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