Only two-thirds of equipment ordered under the Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs) process to support UK armed forces in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was fully delivered before the start of operations - a situation described as "highly regrettable" in a report by the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts released on 30 June. The report, 'Ministry of Defence: the rapid procurement of capability to support operations', concluded that the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) lacked a system for recording whether UORs were delivered to the theatre of operations in time or how effective they proved to be once deployed.
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