The first of the new Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) contracts has now come into service. The £160-million contract, which will provide key maintenance work, repairs, servicing, and hard facilities management to more than 4,400 Defence buildings across Scotland and Northern Ireland, is being delivered by Mitie on behalf of the ...
The Ministry of Defence has announced a reconfiguration of the Army in order to ensure it is fit for the future, with Wales benefiting from the new plans. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced that The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, famously nicknamed, The Welsh Cavalry, who predominantly recruit from Wales will be ...
The Spending Review and the UK’s Strategic Priorities seeks to explain the UK’s defence and international spending, and what it tells us about the strategy underlying the government’s Integrated Review. In contrast to previous national security reviews, the 2021 Integrated Review (IR), published in March, was not accompanied by a multi-year ...
The Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has met with his Danish and Swedish counterparts to discuss shared threats, including NATO’s response to the situation in eastern Europe and increasing competition in the Arctic. In meetings with Danish Defence Minister Trine Bramsen on 8 December, and Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist on the ...