Policy Strategy and Planning

The Review of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme - One Year On

This report explains the progress which has taken place over the past year to ensure the recommendations of the 2010 Lord Boyce Report into the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) are implemented.

To access the report please click on the link below. Although included in the main body of the report, for ease of reference a table is also available below which shows the existing and future values of AFCS awards as a result of the review.

Date: 4 Mar 11

Armed Forces Overarching Personnel Strategy

AFOPS is designed to provide the single Services with clear strategic direction for the policies they need to sustain their ability to conduct operations into the 21st Century.

This document is targeted primarily at MOD and the single Service policy makers involved in the single Service's own personnel change agendas and review work: including the Naval Service's Personnel Strategy and TopMast1 agenda, key features of the Army's Personnel Development Agenda and the 'people' pillar of the RAF Strategy.

Date: 1 Nov 02

Asset Management Strategy

This document describes the MOD's capital asset base and explains how and why the Department plans to manage its assets.

Date: 17 Dec 07

Building stability overseas strategy

Building Stability Overseas

When violent conflict breaks out, the costs to the country and the international community are enormous. Lives are lost, people displaced, trade links cut, and organised crime groups or terrorists are given an opportunity to take root, exacerbating instability. Addressing instability and conflict overseas is both morally right and in Britain’s national interest.

The Building Stability Overseas Strategy (BSOS), published on 19 July 2011 outlines how the UK will promote stability and prosperity in countries and regions where its interests are at stake. The Strategy has been developed jointly by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Department for International Development (DFID) and Ministry of Defence (MOD). 

The strategy is founded on three mutually supporting pillars:

• Early warning: improving our ability to anticipate instability and potential triggers for conflict
• Rapid crisis prevention and response: improving our ability to take fast, appropriate and effective action to prevent a crisis or stop it spreading or escalating
• Investing in upstream prevention: helping to build strong, legitimate institutions and robust societies in fragile countries that are capable of managing tensions and shocks so there is a lower likelihood of instability and conflict.

The strategy is clear that investments must deliver results whilst providing value for the UK taxpayer. To ensure this, a new transparent, cross-Government reporting framework will be implemented to measure the UK’s impact.

Date: 18 Jul 11

Civilian Workforce Strategy

This four year strategy is designed to develop and sustain our civilian workforce. It is an important part of our response to the Capability Review.

The Civilian Workforce Strategy: The New Chapter (2008) looks again at the strategy to maximise the civilian contribution to Defence between 2008 and 2012 (which was first described in the Civilian Workforce Strategy 2006.

The Civilian Workforce Strategy (2006) document describes the Department's strategic priorities for developing its civilian workforce and its civilian HR function.

Date: 14 Dec 06

Code of practice on access to Government information

This document is a Memorandum of Understanding on the co-operation between the Government Departments and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration on the Code of Practice on access to Government information.

Date: 5 Dec 06

Decommissioning and disposal policy paper

Information on the policy for decommissioning and the disposal of radioactive waste and residual nuclear material arising from the Nuclear Programme.

Date: 22 Nov 07

Defence accommodation management strategy

This paper aims to set out how MOD's accommodation will be managed over the next 10 years.

Date: 21 Aug 09

Defence Departmental Investment Strategy

This document describes the MOD's capital asset base, and explains why and how we plan to invest in capital assets in the future.

Date: 6 Jan 06

Defence Estates Strategy 2006 - "In Trust and On Trust"

The Defence Estate Strategy 2006 is a high-level document focusing on the strategic development of the Defence estate. It sets out the course MOD intends to follow and will be used to guide future implementation activity.

Date: 23 Mar 06

Defence Framework

The Defence framework has been comprehensively updated by the department.

The Defence framework describes and explains the overall purpose of Defence, its high-level organisation and the key processes that lead ultimately to the delivery of Defence outputs. It provides a high-level, authoritative source of information on how Defence works.

Date: 30 Jun 09

Defence Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is critical to enabling and supporting success on operations as well as the achievement of Departmental and pan-Government goals.  Owing to the changing nature of operations some ICT requirements will remain unique to Defence. However, over the next 5-10 years we will see Government change the way in which it invests in ICT.  During this period Defence will become increasingly aligned with Other Government Departments as we realise the utility and benefits of common services.

The Defence ICT Strategy provides the Department's high level direction for investment in, and use of, ICT to best enable achievement of Defence's goals through a common, Value for Money approach that supports local accountability. Through the direction provided in this Strategy, stakeholders can understand the Defence ICT landscape, make coherent decisions, and use ICT to enable their operational or corporate objectives to be met, in order to maximise effects and minimise operational risks.

This first iteration remains very much a work in progress and will continue to evolve as the outcomes of the SDSR are finalised and Defence Reform plans develop.

Date: 5 Nov 10

Defence Identity and Access Management Strategy 2010

The MOD Information Strategy (MODIS), published in 2009, provides a framework to support the reform of Defence information capability and establish the conditions to achieve the Defence Information Vision. The Defence Identity & Access Management Strategy (IdAM) 2010 is a sub-strategy to the 2009 MOD Information Strategy (MODIS).

One of the MODIS guiding principles is that "Information has more value when it is shared securely". Delivery of the IdAM strategy will enable appropriate information sharing within MOD, with the rest of Government, and with external partners, by allowing the right people in the right places to gain the right level of access to the right information at the right time.

Date: 10 Sep 10

Defence online engagement strategy

A framework and strategic guidance which sets out the MOD approach to new and emerging internet technologies.

Date: 6 Aug 09

Defence Test & Evaluation Strategy

Implementing Integrated Test & Evaluation
Coordinating MoD-wide Evaluation activities
Optimising provision of T&E capabilities

Date: 22 Jul 08