The Defence Select Committee is one of the Select Committees of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, having been established in 1979. It examines...
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elected to the House of Commons and in 2014 was elected chair of the Defence Select Committee. He served under David Cameron as Minister for the Environment...
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Julian Lewis (section Defence Committee Inquiries)
Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) since 2020, succeeding Dominic Grieve. Lewis previously served as Chair of the Defence Select Committee (HCDC), from 2015...
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In British politics, parliamentary select committees are cross-party groups of MPs or Lords which investigate specific issues or scrutinise the work of...
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evidence to the Defence Select Committee: Shortcomings of the Royal Navy's new Ocean-Going Patrol Ships". Commons Defence Select Committee, UK Parliament...
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Defence Committee of the Cabinet (Pakistan) Defence Select Committee, UK Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Israel International Relations and Defence Committee...
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secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee. The current secretary of state for defence is John Healey, who was appointed on 5 July...
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and defence procurement. The expenditure, administration and policy of the MOD are scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee, except for Defence Intelligence...
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chaired the Defence Select Committee from 2020 to 2023, and was Minister for Defence Veterans, Reserves and Personnel at the Ministry of Defence from 2017...
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original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017. Defence Select Committee (23 February 2010). "Defence Equipment 2010" (PDF). House of Commons. p. Ev 97...
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Hampshire from 1997 to 2015. Arbuthnot served as chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014, before being nominated as a life peer in the...
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Honours for public and political service. He became Chair of the Defence Select Committee in January 2024. Quin lost his seat in the 2024 General Election...
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stage the In Service Date was 2008. The British House of Commons Defence Select Committee summarised the reasons behind the decision in its Tenth Report:...
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2014, Jane's Information Group reported that a House of Commons Defence Select Committee had published a report about the UK's "post-2030 combat aviation...
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Défense and Armed Forces Commission and the British House of Commons Defence Select Committee was sat to discuss the FC/ASW program one year into its concept...
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Johnson government from 2020 to 2022 and served as Chair of the Defence Select Committee from October to December 2023. Courts was elected for Witney at...
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disciplinary procedure. It has come under criticism in a report to the Defence Select Committee which described it as being unfairly weighted in the favour of...
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of Commons Defence Select Committee. In July 1997, he was elected as Secretary of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Committee and the Conservative...
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rejoined the Defence Select Committee in 2003. Following the 2005 general election he served as the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee until 2010...
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tenure in Parliament, Crausby was a long-serving member of the Defence Select Committee and Panel of Chairs. He represented the UK internationally as a...
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evidence to the Defence Select Committee. The position has existed in its current format since the formation of the modern Ministry of Defence in 1964. It...
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of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013. She was a member of the Defence Select Committee 2010-13 and was a member...
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Type 45 destroyer (section Advanced air-defence)
as initially planned. In 2007, the Defence Select Committee expressed disappointment that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and BAE had failed to control...
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Weapons, 13 November 2013. The future of NATO and European defence (PDF). Defence Select Committee (Report). UK Parliament. 4 March 2008. p. Ev 80. ISBN 9780215514165...
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Following the 1997 general election, he became a member of the Defence Select committee. Beginning in 1998, Brazier led a campaign opposing the closure...
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UK's Parliamentary Defence Select Committee: Session 2001/02 Update on weapons programmes. UK's Parliamentary Defence Select Committee: Session 2002/03...
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State for Defence on Strategic Defence Review: Joint Initiatives". Hansard. 30 March 1999. Retrieved 12 October 2019. "Select Committee on Defence First Report...
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Porton Down (redirect from Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down)
Parliament and Chairman of the Defence Select Committee, told BBC News on 20 August 1999 that: I would not say that the Defence Committee is micro-managing either...
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The management of the C2 LEP was scathingly criticized by the Defence Select Committee on 15 March 2021. They said in a report entitled "Obsolescent and...
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and defence analysts on an apolitical, not-for-profit, tri-service basis. DS engages with the House of Commons Defence Committee (HCDC) Defence Select Committee...
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