2. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS

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1. Strategic Defence Review to be held in the first session of a new Parliament
2. A rolling 10 year budget should be agreed for the MoD
3. An Executive Committee of the Defence Board should be formed to be accountable for an affordable Equipment Programme
4. Clarify roles and create a real customer-supplier relationship between the capability sponsor (MoD centre) and project delivery (DE&S)
5. Revise aspects of the Approval process to improve decision making
6. Further cost reductions within in-service support should be pursued vigorously and the aspirations of TLCM should be reappraised
7. Improve the ability of DE&S to deliver efficiently on new equipment and support
8. Change the status of DE&S