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Latest prediction of MoD emergency cuts

The OTCs and British Forces Cyprus are only two of the emergency cuts predicted in The Sunday Times, 24 Jan:

From The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010

Officer Training Corps faces the axe

by Jonathan Oliver and Michael Smith

THE Ministry of Defence is drawing up emergency cuts including the scrapping of the Officer Training Corps (OTC) and the withdrawal of troops from Cyprus.

The dire state of the defence budget also means that new Nimrod spy planes, costing £3.6 billion and due to come into service next week, will be parked in their hangars.

Other cuts, expected to be unveiled in the next two months, include:

- Closing up to three airbases.

- Reducing the £700m annual bill for army accommodation by giving soldiers housing credits to buy or rent property.

- Axeing the grace and favour homes provided to 20 army, navy and air force chiefs.

- Closing Aldershot and Shrewsbury, two of the army’s five regional headquarters.

- Privatising parts of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, the organisation that repairs and supplies naval vessels.
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