{"id":40613,"date":"2018-05-11T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/11\/mod-faces-21bn-budget-shortfall-warns-spending-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T23:01:25","slug":"mod-faces-21bn-budget-shortfall-warns-spending-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=40613","title":{"rendered":"MoD faces \u00a321bn budget shortfall, warns spending watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed forces do not have enough funds over next decade to purchase equipment needed, says reportThe UK\u2019s armed forces are facing a \u00a321bn funding shortfall over the next decade, a critical report from parliament\u2019s spending watchdog has warned.The public accounts committee said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) \u201csimply does not have enough money to buy all the equipment it says it needs\u201d and accused it of not being clear with politicians or the public about the financial risks. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/may\/11\/mod-faces-21bn-budget-shortfall-warns-spending-watchdog\" target=\"_blank\">MoD faces \u00a321bn budget shortfall, warns spending watchdog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed forces do not have enough funds over next decade to purchase equipment needed, says reportThe UK\u2019s armed forces are facing a \u00a321bn funding shortfall over the next decade, a critical report from parliament\u2019s spending watchdog has warned.The public accounts committee said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) \u201csimply does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}