Defence spending: how to keep Britain safe without wasting money | Letters

Readers respond to coverage of the row over the defence investment plan and resignations of John Healey and Al Carns

Your interview with Al Carns was welcome (‘Unbelievable’ waste and inefficiency at MoD, says ex-defence minister Al Carns, 16 June). Those of us who have visited the procurement headquarters at Abbey Wood in Bristol will recognise exactly what he is describing. But two questions went unasked.

First, given the £18bn defence funding gap, what ballpark contribution could genuinely reformed procurement make to closing it? A rough order of magnitude would sharpen the debate considerably.