Defense Spending

Labour’s 2022 “Dossier of Waste” claimed the Ministry of Defence wasted at least £13 billion of taxpayers’ money between 2010 and 2021 across 67 confirmed cases of mismanagement. The report highlighted £5.6bn in project overspends, £4.8bn on cancelled contracts, £2.6bn in write-offs, and millions more in administrative errors and delayed programmes. Labour argued that better management could have protected funding for troops, equipment and readiness instead of being lost to procurement failures