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Book Synopsis Managing the Defence Estate by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Managing the Defence Estate written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence has a worldwide estate valued at some £18 billion and is the second largest landowner in the UK. The total annual operating cost of the estate was estimated at £3.3 million in 2005-06. This report, following on from an earlier report in 2005 (ISBN 9780102932768), looks at the changes introduced to reverse the deterioration in the quality of the estate and also the programme of estate rationalisation. It is in two parts, the first is entitled 'delivering an estate of the right quality' and the second 'managing, measuring and planning'. The conclusion is that new arrangements have improved the delivery of estate services, however it is still too early to say that this will result in a better quality estate. For this to happen there needs to be continued commitment, supplier innovation and client leadership, with sufficient stability of funding.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215037473 Total Pages :40 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (374 download)
Book Synopsis Managing the defence estate by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Managing the defence estate written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has an extensive and complex estate of some 24,000 hectares, and after the Forestry Commission, is the second largest landowner in the UK. The estate is valued at over £18 billion and costs some £3.3 billion to operate. The estate is seen as essential to the delivery of military capability and the welfare and morale of Service personnel. This report, from the Committee of Public Accounts, has taken evidence from the MoD on the standard of living accommodation, the Department's ability to prioritise estate projects effectively, and its response to staff shortages. It follows on from an NAO report (HCP 154, session 2006-7), Managing the Defence Estate: Quality and Sustainability (ISBN 9780102944679). It sets out 9 recommendations, including: more than half of single living accommodation and over 40% of family accommodation does not meet the Department's definition of high-quality accommodation and is therefore substandard; that poor accommodation has a negative impact on retention rates; there is no information on when poor accommodation is to be upgraded, with some military personnel and their families having to continue to live in substandard housing for the next 20 years; there are gaps in the Department's understanding of estate costs; the Department employs only 56% of safety works staff and 57% of quantity surveyors that it needs; that implementing energy saving measures at its' defence sites would bring environmental benefits and savings of more than £2 million annually.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215555571 Total Pages :44 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (555 download)
Book Synopsis Managing the defence budget and estate by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Managing the defence budget and estate written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence (the Department) is responsible for over £42 billion of annual expenditure. It has failed to exercise the robust financial management necessary to control its resources effectively in the long term, and there is a shortfall in planned expenditure against likely funding of up to £36 billion over the next ten years. The Department's consistent pattern of planned overspend demonstrates serious organisational failings and a dangerous culture of optimism. There are systemic failings: a tendency towards financial over-commitment, weaknesses in the financial planning processes and a division in responsibilities and accountability for financial stewardship. The Accounting Officer has not discharged his responsibility to ensure that expenditure represents value for money, and there is no explicit financial strategy linking funding to priorities. When financial savings have to be found there is then no clear basis for determining where cuts should be made. The appointment of a professionally qualified Finance Director is welcomed. The defence estate is valued at over £20 billion, and costs an estimated £2.9 billion per year to run. The built estate in the UK has been reduced by 4.3% between 1998 and 2008, achieving £3.4 billion in sale receipts. But more of the estate should have been released. The Department does not assess its estate against clear objective criteria. The Department does not collect centrally the information and data that would allow it to manage its estate in an effective way. It appears to lack urgency in its plans to improve its information base.
Book Synopsis Managing the Defence Estate by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Managing the Defence Estate written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005-05-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at the management by the Defence Estates Agency, of the land and property owned by the Ministry of Defence. The estate is worth some £15.3 billion, and costs £1.3 billion to run, with the MoD as one of the largest landowners in the UK with land covering some 240,000 hectares. The Estate itself consists of such facilities as barracks, depots, aircraft hangers and naval bases, as well as training grounds and ranges. Also the MoD has direct managerial responsibility for 200 sites of special scientific interest, along with responsibility for over 1600 listed buildings and monuments. The NAO recognizes the operational challenges of managing such a large utility, but commends the MoD for developing a strategy that saw contractual arrangements deliver higher quality and estate rationalization, along with improved customer satisfaction. There had been a deterioration in the estate due to shortfalls in spending, and the use of traditional methods in the procuring and managing of estate services. The selling off of surplus land has earned the MoD £1.2 billion, and five new regional contracts have been signed to improve the estate. Insufficient funding due to conflicting defence priorities may hamper long-term efficiencies, and that there is more to be done to consolidate recent cultural changes in the organization of contracts for running the estate, especially the move towards large centrally-managed contracts.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780102088892 Total Pages :13 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (888 download)
Book Synopsis 16th Report by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book 16th Report written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A defence estate of the right size to meet operational needs by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book A defence estate of the right size to meet operational needs written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence, one of the largest landowners in the UK, has strengthened its estate planning and achieved significant receipts from disposal of property but the changes are not yet sufficient to drive value for money for the taxpayer rigorously. While the defence estate primarily exists to support defence capabilities, the Department has not matched its focus on operational needs with enough attention to efficient use of its estate assets and to reducing costs. This report acknowledges that, between 1998 and 2008, the MOD identified and took opportunities to rationalise that part of its UK estate not needed for training, generating £3.4 billion from the sale of surplus property. Nevertheless, over the same period the Department reduced the number of civilian and military personnel three times faster than it reduced its built estate. This raises a clear question about whether there are opportunities to reduce the estate further and secure cost savings and further disposal receipts. The NAO also concludes that the Department's process for categorising sites is rightly driven by operational requirements but it does not give sufficient weight to other factors such as how heavily a site is used, running costs, or potential income from sale. The MOD also lacks sufficient data centrally to conduct the necessary analysis to help it reduce costs in a structured way. This report identified five categories of information needed to identify the scope for further estate rationalisation: operational importance; utilisation; condition; potential value; and running costs.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4.X/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis Control and Management of the Defence Estate, Ministry of Defence [and] Property Services Agency by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Control and Management of the Defence Estate, Ministry of Defence [and] Property Services Agency written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maintenance of the Defence Estate by : Australian National Audit Office
Download or read book Maintenance of the Defence Estate written by Australian National Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The object of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the management of maintenance of the Defence estate, taking particular account of planning and delivery aspects." -- p. 13.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215035936 Total Pages :90 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (359 download)
Book Synopsis The work of Defence Estates by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee
Download or read book The work of Defence Estates written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is one of the largest landowners in the UK, with a total estate (including land and property) valued at around £18 billion. Defence Estates (an Agency of the MoD until April 2007 and now re-integrated as part of the MoD) has responsibility for managing the defence estate, with an annual budget of £1.15 billion. The Committee's report examines the work of Defence Estates, focusing on the standard of accommodation for Service personnel and their families. The report highlights concerns about sub-standard accommodation, particularly in relation to the operation of the regional prime contracts for single living accommodation and the maintenance of service families accommodation under the housing prime contract. It argues that the provision of good quality accommodation for Service personnel and their families, modern and efficient office accommodation, and a well-maintained training estate, play a vital role in contributing to the effectiveness of our Armed Forces, particularly important given the current high tempo of operations. Overall, the report finds that although Defence Estates is doing much good work, there are considerable challenges ahead. A substantial increase in investment in the defence estate is required and the MoD must resist the temptation to take from the estates budget when the defence budget is stretched.
Book Synopsis An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present by : Marianna Dudley
Download or read book An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present written by Marianna Dudley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the military use of the landscape and the rise of military environmentalism through the twentieth century.
Download or read book In Trust and on Trust written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text sets out the long-term aims for the management of the land and property assets of the Defence Estate which owns or leases some 24,000 hectares of land, spread over 4000 sites. It also owns or uses over 45,000 buildings in the UK. The document explains what the estate is, why it is required, how it is used and how the Defence Estates intend to improve its management and upkeep. Its sets out policies for the management of the rural estate, including objectives for: nature conservation; cultural heritage; landscape; relationships with the public in respect of access and recreation, with local communities, and with agricultural and other tenants; and the use of private land for training.
Book Synopsis Development of the Redundant Defence Estate by : Fuller Peiser
Download or read book Development of the Redundant Defence Estate written by Fuller Peiser and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the result of an extensive study that was undertaken to review the existing policy context of Ministry of Defence (MOD) disposals in England, and to advise Government on how it should seek to obtain value for money whilst having regard to the wider interest of Government. The research process involved five main areas of work - a literature search, a review of all relevant policy guidance, interviews and written consultations, seminars for property professionals and nine detailed case studies.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :0215088026 Total Pages :25 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis HC 391, Incorporating HC 392 - Strategic financial management of the Ministry of Defence and Military flying training by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book HC 391, Incorporating HC 392 - Strategic financial management of the Ministry of Defence and Military flying training written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department has addressed the £38 billion funding gap that emerged prior to 2010 between the funding it expected and the forecast cost of Defence over the following ten years. It has also cut its costs to live within a reduced budget. However, this has been achieved not just by delivering financial savings, but also by deferring some costs into future years, at the risk that these costs could increase because of the delay. The stability of the Department's financial position depends on the accuracy of a large number of assumptions it has to make, many of which have proved over-optimistic in the past, and its ability to: control its costs, achieve the significant savings anticipated in the equipment and infrastructure budgets, and manage the cost of the Department's portfolio of nuclear-related programmes.
Book Synopsis Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography by : Stuart Pearson
Download or read book Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography written by Stuart Pearson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia. Here, leading experts demonstrate that geography retains its relevance in clarifying the scale and dynamics of defense activities in assessments of the international, regional, national, and site impacts of changes in physical, cyber and human geographies. The cases presented show Australia contributing to a growing strategic and military geography.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages : pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (111 download)
Book Synopsis Control and Management of the Defence Estate by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts
Download or read book Control and Management of the Defence Estate written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215037534 Total Pages :17 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (375 download)
Book Synopsis The Work of Defence Estates by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee
Download or read book The Work of Defence Estates written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Defence Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HCP 535, session 2006-07 (ISBN 9780215035936). The National Audit Office also published a report on the management of the defence estate (the land and property owned by the Ministry of Defence) as HCP 25, session 2005-06 (ISBN 9780102932768)
Book Synopsis Managing change in the Defence workforce by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Managing change in the Defence workforce written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department's approach to reducing its headcount has been largely in accordance with good practice and, up to now, it has acted in a way that is consistent with value for money. However, the urgent need for the Department to cut costs means it is having to cut its headcount in advance of planning in detail how it will operate in the future, thereby risking making current skills shortages worse. The Department plans to cut its civilian workforce by 29,000 and its armed forces by 25,000. To meet these targets, the MOD has started a redundancy programme and a Voluntary Early Release Scheme, both of which run in several tranches. The most recent estimates by the Department are that the process will cost £0.9 billion and produce £4.1 billion in cost reductions (just over £3 billion net). The potential savings fluctuate with the timing of the redundancy tranches (a delay of three months to the second military tranche has reduced savings from this tranche alone by an estimated £100 million to £138 million to 2015). The Department now has to reduce the numbers in the Army by a further 5,000 by 2015 but has not worked out in detail how it will do this. Delays to the process erode the level of potential savings as the Department continues to pay salaries, benefits and contributions to pensions. Without real changes to ways of working, cutting headcount is likely to result in the Department's doing less with fewer people or, alternatively, trying to do the same with greater risk
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