Consultants Get £1.1m From Deal To Axe Harriers

MPs Outraged As Consultants Get £1.1m From Deal To Axe Harriers -- London Evening Standard

Consultants were paid £1.1 million to help axe Britain's fleet of Harrier jump jets and then sell them to America, it emerged today.

The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a "ludicrous waste" of money on outside help, at a time when thousands of troops are being cut.

MPs said it was "extraordinary" that private firms were profiting from helping to slash the defence budget, arguing the job could be done by the department's own staff. The 74 Harriers were retired eight years early as part of 2010's defence review. But last year 72 were sold to the US military, who compared them to cars with just 15,000 miles on the clock.

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