Sentences with phrase «defence projects»

In the plan, the government has also pledged # 2.3 billion on 1400 other flood defence projects over the next six years.

He accused Labour ministers of pushing the cost of defence projects into future years, saying they had behaved like someone buying from a catalogue knowing they could pay later.

Reporting on just another cancelled defence project seemed negligible; the US targeted killings via drones in Pakistan and Yemen had barely started and interest in the matter was low.

The Australian Submarine Corporation should be privatised, while Australian workers have the capability to produce defence projects locally, Austal chief executive Andrew Bellamy said today.

Ministry of Defence cost - cutting efforts have actually resulted in a # 500 million increase in the 15 largest defence projects, according to a new report.

The National Audit Office (NAO) said the 16 biggest defence projects had seen a slippage of 139 months and increase in costs of # 468 million over the last 12 months.

But on the other, they press ahead with the sorts of spending the Tories approve of — a massive defence project with a spurious aura of toughness on national security.

But sadly the Euro Hawk is not been the first defence project to create enormous costs rather than results.

In its annual assessment of long - term defence projects, the committee said ministers had been «at best confused and unhelpful and at worst deliberately obstructive» when giving evidence on their 2009 report.

Committee chair Anne McIntosh added: «At a time of budgetary constraints councils must give flood protection work priority since many of them will need to increase the financial contribution they make to key local flood defence projects whilst also fulfilling their new duties to lead local flood work.»

For most of the Coalition's time in office, the Treasury identified the management of major Ministry of Defence projects as the biggest financial risk.

Mr Cameron said: «In the last 48 hours the SNP have said «no money spent on defence projects unless you get rid of Trident».

Brooke included a «counsel's opinion'that the Water Act of 1989, which established the NRA, requires the authority to consider the option of retreat and the environmental benefits that might follow, whenever it assesses the cost of coastal defence projects.

But whatever the real risks from small asteroids and space debris, research into combating any type of cosmic impacts is unlikely to win the levels of funding given to defence projects even at the tail end of the Cold War.

Later in the interview, Watson agrees with Greenhouse that perhaps the UFOs he saw may have been part of a secret government defence project to create flying machines using magnets.

Responding to a request from the people to the government to rehabilitate roads in the area, Mr Amissah - Arthur stated that the government thought it wise to rather repair the roads after the completion of the Ada Sea Defence Project.

Another reason is that a lot of defence projects are shrouded in the thick fog of national security.

Cuts to defence projects would have a devastating impact on industry and jobs in Scotland, warns a document backed by all the major Scottish parties.

The company specialises in major energy, infrastructure and defence projects has good news:

• David Laws, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, has said that cancelling a defence project in his constituency would be «economic lunacy», the Western Morning News reports.

He asked the Omanhen to provide land on which he will build a cold store for the people of Komenda, stones for a sea defence project, roofing sheets, pavement blocks and cement for the renovation of the traditional council's office.