MoD failed to keep track of radios worth £155m

By Matthew Moore Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

The NAO disclosed that the MoD could not comment for the locale of secure Bowman air wave systems value �155 million ? eleven per cent of the sum Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The Commons Defence Committee pounded the MoD for executive failings that resulted in hundreds of millions of pounds of overpayments to employees and led to officials losing lane of supportive apparatus in Afghanistan.

MPs pronounced it was "unacceptable" that the National Audit Office (NAO) had lifted subject outlines about - or "qualified" - the MoD"s accounts for the third year in period given of the stability problems.

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In the inform last year, the NAO disclosed that the MoD could not comment for the locale of secure Bowman air wave systems value �155 million eleven per cent of the total.

There are fears that a little of the radios might have been performed by Taliban fighters who have used them to prepare attacks on British troops.

James Arbuthnot, the Tory MP who is authority of the committee, said: "The security implications compared with losing apparatus such as this are significant. Having an in effect review route is the usually approach to safeguard that all apparatus is accounted for."

In the inform the cabinet said: "Failing to say correct and full inform on crew and to keep lane of resources such as Bowman has the intensity to bluster the long-term capacity of the department, together with operational capability.

"The MoD thus needs to take obligatory movement to redress the superb problems."

A MoD orator pronounced the issues lifted in the inform were well well known and that swell had already been done in traffic with them.

He combined it was astray to indicate that the Bowman radios had been "lost" as inclination that are in movement did not register on the complement used to log their location.

"We are operative closely with the executive to urge the inner processes used to comment for assets, quite those in theatre," he said.

The MoD additionally pronounced that "significant improvement" had been done to the payroll complement given the NAO disclosed that it had poorly paid out �268 million in dilettante compensate and allowances.