While frontline troops endure squalid, rat-infested accommodation, defence chiefs have blown over £200 million on luxury travel and five-star hotels for senior staff. The Mail has the details.
The MoD spent almost £800 million on hotels and travel between 2018 and 2024 at locations such as the French Alps and Las Vegas.
In sharp contrast, the living conditions of troops in UK Armed Forces accommodation during the same period – some infested with vermin and harmful black mould – led to more than 60,000 complaints.
Meanwhile freedom of information requests obtained by the Mail on Sunday and National Security News revealed a huge leap in costs from £136 million in 2018 to £218 million by 2024 covering hotel accommodation, flights and travel by train and ferry.
The figures revealed numerous MoD personnel stayed in pricey hotels in Central London including the Park Plaza and the Marriott – which can cost up to £400 a night.
Outside of the UK a £1,426 bill was submitted for a four-night stay at the Auberge Saint Hubert Hotel Val D’Isere ski resort in France, a bill of £1,032 was also racked up at the Novotel Sydney Harbour for three nights and one staff member spent seven nights at the Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort which cost £2,439. …
One commanding officer of an infantry battalion based in Bulford told the MoS: “I have soldiers living in really poor-quality housing who are constantly battling to get repairs. I have soldiers on sick leave living in homes which are barely habitable.”
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