Lisa West | UK Defence Journal

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MoD accounts fail to support 6 billion of assets, MPs find

June 7, 2026

The Public Accounts Committee has called it "completely unacceptable" that the Ministry of Defence could not properly account for more than £6bn of assets, an error tied to historic Atomic Weapons Establishment spending.

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