Vernon Coaker MP, Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary, responding to reports the MoD is planning to outsource the management of its entire military estate to the private sector, said:

“There will be scepticism and some concern at these proposals.

"The Government doesn’t seem to have learned any lessons from its botched attempt to privatise defence procurement or the IT fiasco after it outsourced recruitment to the Armed Forces.

"Labour is calling for full Parliamentary scrutiny of these proposals before the Government can proceed.”

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