BBC Democracy Live - Labour slams MoD 'complacency' 14 January 2014 Last updated at 13:42 Help About £6.7m has been written off against a failed online Army recruitment system, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told MPs. Mr Hammond said a new IT platform is to be built by contractor Capita at a cost of £47.7m, because of problems with the existing system provided by Atlas. He said it will cost taxpayers £1m a month until the replacement is developed, as he responded to an urgent question from Labour on 14 January 2014. Shadow defence minister Vernon Coaker, who was granted the urgent question by the Speaker, said it was the "same old story of complacency, inefficiency and lack of transparency." He told the secretary of state he needed to "get a grip" on the "debacle," and pressed him on which ministers signed off the deal and who has been responsible for monitoring it. Mr Hammond insisted that moves to streamline Army recruitment are progressing despite the IT problems, with the new system expected be ready early next year. Conservative MP John Baron, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said the government should "halt the disbandment of regular (Army) units until we are sure that the plan to replace them with reservists is cost-effective and feasible."