Government slammed over £1.35bn cost increase on MoD nuclear jobs

By Hamish Champ2020-01-10T06:00:00

National Audit Office takes ministry to task over huge overruns on nuclear submarine schemes

The National Audit Office (NAO) has slammed the government over years of delays and a cost overrun of more than £1bn on a trio of infrastructure schemes being developed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

A new NAO report said the MoD’s “poor management of three infrastructure projects on its nuclear-regulated sites” had contributed to a combined cost increase of £1.35bn and delays of between nearly two and six years.

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