Chapter 6 and this chapter refer to issues around project and programme decision-making processes, including capital project approvals, associated support expenditures, and, more recently, cross-DLoD initiatives. Key issues include the following:
• project approvals are based on business cases embedding costings that systematically prove optimistic, and on affordability assessments that are based on an unaffordable EPP; and
• the process of bringing projects to the IAB is cumbersome, often wastes too much time, and appears to be used as a de facto throttling process on overall EP commitment levels.