‘Appalling’ MoD outsourcing to be ditched under Labour

A LABOUR government will bring bumper MoD contracts back in-house, military experts will be told today.

Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith will tell the Royal United Services Institute there would be a “root and branch review” of contracts and a halt on new outsourcing deals.

She will say: “Where they are not delivering, where they are failing our personnel and their families, or failing to provide value for money to British taxpayers, we will have no hesitation in bringing these contracts back in-house.” She’ll point to the failure of CarillionAmey to deliver on housing maintenance and Capita’s “appalling performance” on recruit ment. Ms Griffith told the Andrew Marr show Labour would back sending more troops to Afghanistan and would maintain the Trident nuclear deterrent.