Monday, 05 August 2013 08:04
'Defence chiefs have spent more than £500 million on lawyers and consultants while making thousands of troops redundant. Most of the money has been siphoned off a budget that should have been used to pay for equipment in Afghanistan.
Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveal that the amount spent by the Ministry of Defence on ‘External Assistance’ – lawyers, management consultants, accountants and IT experts – has doubled in the past two years.
Sources said that some consultants are now being paid as much as £4,000 a day for work previously done by civil servants.'
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