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Article: Cashing in on the MoD gravy train; 130 civil servants defect to private sector in a year.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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Byline: Tim Shipman and Emily Andrews
THE full extent to which defence officials cash in on their expertise in the private sector was laid bare last night.
An investigation by the Mail has found one in three civil servants who took up lucrative jobs was working in the Ministry of Defence.
Last year 394 civil servants applied to sell their skills to the highest bidder - and 130 were MoD personnel.
The committee which vets such appointments approved all the applications, although some carried conditions.
The latest figures come after the Mail revealed the MoD handed a [pounds sterling]1.7billion contract for helicopters to a ...