Firstly Chris, can you tell us more about the Lex Defence White Fleet?
Lex Defence White Fleet manages the MoD’s 14,000 strong ‘White Fleet’ of non-combat vehicles for the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force. Vehicles range from motorcycles to cars, vans to coaches and trucks – many are specially built for military use. In April 2004 we reached a key milestone when the 10,000th new vehicle was delivered. The Land Rover 130 will be used at the Royal Navy Armaments Depot at Coulport carrying out essential maintenance works around the base. This vehicle highlights the fact that since the contract began in 2001, over 71% of the total fleet has been replaced by brand new vehicles – that’s an impressive 15 new vehicle deliveries by Lex Defence to MoD customers on every single working day since the contract began! Tell us more about PFIs PFI is one of the options available to the MoD for funding new capital projects. MoD policy is that PFIs will be used in preference to public funds, unless the PFI is proven to be inappropriate, unworkable or uneconomical. PFI
