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Prospect’s response is broken up into two sections. Section 1 we focus on the development of UK sovereign capability in defence equipment design and manufacturing. In Section 2 we highlight the need to retain an intelligent customer role for civilian personnel in the Ministry of Defence.
30 October 2015
30 October 2015
Scores of civilian specialists will be exempted from taking industrial action on 30 November because of their critical role in the department's operations in Afghanistan, elsewhere overseas and in the UK. National secretary Steve Jary said "These people are not the Whitehall bureaucrats of popular imagination but skilled specialists..."
29 November 2011
29 November 2011
Prospect has warned today that the extent to which MOD has utilised outside technical assistance demonstrates how badly its plan to cut civilian staff has affected its ability to manage efficiently its equipment programme. Steve Jary, Prospect National Secretary said "When the department is faced with swingeing, across-the-board cuts the last thing it needs is a bill for £600m for outside technical assistance."
18 November 2011
18 November 2011
Prospect, the union for 7000 specialists in the Ministry of Defence, says this month MOD starts the process of cutting its civilian staff by 30,000 posts. 3,000 staff will leave in October - the first wave - and many of them are not Whitehall bureaucrats but defence specialists from engineers to nuclear physicists. Prospect's brief survey showed that just 4% of members thought MOD's cuts could be achieved without damaging support to front-line troops.
13 October 2011
13 October 2011
On 19 August 2011, Prospect welcomed the report of the Public Accounts Committee into the MOD's use of information to manage the defence logistics supply chain. Kevin McAlonan, Prospect negotiator, said "The report specifically highlights the need to retain 'key skilled staff in the supply chain management'. Yet these are the very people that the MOD is looking to shed..."
22 August 2011
22 August 2011
Prospect condemned the announcement by Ministry of Defence in a letter sent to all staff stating that a further 7,000 civilian staff are to be cut between 2015-2020. Steve Jary said "the department keeps announcing significant changes without consultation, not even advance notification."
29 July 2011
29 July 2011
Prospect will be holding a mass meeting of members today (1/7/11) to discuss MOD proposals to privatise their work and transfer the majority of staff to a consortium consisting of AWE, Babcock and Lockheed Martin
01 July 2011
01 July 2011
Prospect welcomed Lord Levene's Defence Reform Review but warned that the department faces huge challenges in its attempts to get to grips with structural problems. "The department risks losing its in-house expertise, just as it is required to deliver defence reform."
27 June 2011
27 June 2011