British parliamentarians are concerned about the inability of the Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence to supply the army with the necessary equipment and materials in the event of a conflict. The deputies’ report found that the country’s military procurement system is broken, and attempts to reform it have failed. Being involved in a conflict with Russia, the kingdom actually has no potential for the growth of military-industrial production to support the army.

Against the backdrop of the resignation of the Minister of Defence of the United Kingdom, Ben Wallace, a parliamentary report on procurement for the needs of the defence department was released. The system of military procurement in the UK is not effective, members of the British Parliament, who have been studying the current model for providing the army for six months, state.

The inefficiency is expressed in the fact that ‘the procurement system in the UK is highly bureaucratic, overly layered, too cumbersome, with an inconsistent approach to security, very poor accountability and a culture that institutionally does not accept individual responsibility,’ the parliamentary committee said. Marc François, a Conservative MP and former defence minister, who led the investigation, calls the system ’dysfunctional’ and points out that it ’should be urgently replaced’ because it jeopardizes rearmament programs.

British Sky News notes that the Department of Defence of the UK, responsible for the purchase of everything from warships to boots, not the first time comes under fire. As before, the deputies focused on delays in deliveries, rising prices for already approved contracts, and even violations of contracts even before the final approval.

The peculiarity of the new parliamentary investigation is that it took place against the backdrop of an armed confrontation in Ukraine, which has ’a very real potential for developing into a full-scale conflict involving the UK and its NATO allies,’ emphasizes the British TV channel.

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‘For the first time since the end of the Cold War, we are faced with the prospect that we may be involved in a conflict with Russia, without the ability to build up our industrial as well as military potential,’ British parliamentarians say. In new, more difficult conditions, the system should be able to function, including in a protracted conflict, the deputies are sure.

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