Sentences with phrase «defence select committee»

In its report on the white paper published in March 2007, the all - party defence select committee said it had been given costings by senior MoD civil servant Tom McKane.».

Today the House of Commons Defence Select Committee publishes its second report on the Military Covenant in Action, this time focussing on the accommodation provided for serving men and women and their families.

A report by the Commons defence select committee published today suggests that without an updated strategy there is a risk that industry will not be able to provide for the future requirements of UK forces.

Defence Select Committee concludes that too many «genuine complaints» about bullying, harassment, or sexual offences in the armed services are not being reported

Blunt was subsequently appointed to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.

Defence Select Committee concludes that too many «genuine complaints» about bullying, harassment, or sexual offences in the armed services are not being reported - BBC

The defence select committee member is standing down on the advice of his doctor.

As the Defence Select Committee departed Kabul this year, the buzzword is «reconciliation» - but that has to be an Afghan solution to the Afghan problem.

The Defence Select Committee has said the ConDems are rushing the strategic defence review and mistakes could be made.

The report of the defence select committee of 3 August, 2011 considered the impact of the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the National Security Strategy.

As the Defence Select Committee said: «it is unclear how a successor to Trident would be paid for».

Just this last week, the Defence Select Committee criticised the government for underfunding the Navy.

Rory Stewart, Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border and chairman of the defence select committee, warned MPs that Britain could not continue to rely on the military might of America and be a «freeloader».

Between 2014 and 2015 he was Chair of the Defence Select Committee, and in May 2015 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

* James Arbuthnot, the Conservative chairman of the defence select committee, announced last night that he would be repaying money he had claimed from the taxpayer to clean his swimming pool.

The Defence select committee's report into the SDSR stated that «without proper detailed figures» the government's claims about the extent of the black hole «can not be verified».

Dods Monitoring's Connor Smart reviews Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson's first appearance before the Defence Select Committee, saying some may...

The news comes on the day of a highly critical report from the defence select committee, which warns British troops are under - resourced and stretched to the point that they may not be able to do their job properly.

I suspect the issue is pushing Ministers, or Parliamentarians (though perhaps the defence select committee could try to quiz the journalists concerned too)

A new report from the defence select committee says the collaboration on new military aircraft must only be continued if the UK has the technological information to be able to operate the new planes without the help of the US.

Members of the defence select committee will visit military installations on the archipelago later this year, in what is likely to be branded a military event by Argentina.

In a recent report, the defence select committee said handing over control of Basra, which is the most populous and economically important of the four provinces under British control, was a «key test» in the progress towards Iraqi self - reliance.

Mr Arbuthnot, chairman of the defence select committee, reportedly claimed # 108,062 in the past five years.

In the Commons, he initially served as a back - bencher on the Defence Select Committee before becoming Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.

John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury and a member of the Defence Select Committee.

James Arbuthnot (MP for North - East Hampshire) chairs the Defence Select Committee.

In May 2014, Blunt was one of seven unsuccessful candidates for the chairmanship of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.

Today the Defence Select Committee publishes their first report on the Armed Forces Covenant, which looks at military casualties.

Yesterday former White House advisor Richard Garwin told the defence select committee that the government's plans to replace the weapons system were «highly premature», and argued it could afford to wait until at least 2030.

«I have never read anything in a defence select committee paper or report which was worth anyone believing they had something they could not get from another source,» he added yesterday.

Mr Hancock has insisted he has never seen anything in a defence select committee paper or report which is not available elsewhere, but defence analysts have pointed out Russia's intelligence agencies will have benefited from the insight she offers.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Julian Lewis, Chair of the Defence Select Committee, said: «NATO and the UK have a continuing resolve to ensure Afghanistan does not fall back under the control of the Taliban.

TUC head Brendan Barber has called for «co-ordinated strike action», the BBC walkout threatens to disrupt coverage of the Tory conference, the Police Superintendents Association has warned that the cuts will trigger «widespread disorder» and the defence select committee has attacked the strategic review as «money - driven, not threat - driven».

Bernard Jenkin MP (North Essex) is a member of the Defence Select Committee and was Shadow Defence Secretary from 2001 until 2003.

My Chairmanship of the Defence Select Committee, an especially rewarding role, comes to an end at the end of this Parliament.

The press jumped on a suggestion that the only other public mention of «Operation Rockingham» prior to David Kelly's ISC evidence was by Brigadier Richard Holmes while giving evidence to the defence select committee in June 1998.

Adam Holloway is Conservative MP for Gravesham, a member of the defence select committee and a former soldier who has served in Iraq, Bosnia and Afghanistan.

James Arbuthnot, now chairman of the Commons defence select committee, was «concerned about the appearance of inequity in the treatment of Mr Ashcroft in comparison with other non-domiciled working peers», the senior civil servant Sir Hayden Phillips wrote on 29 June 2000.

The Prospect union has this week sent a letter to the Defence Select Committee, warning that safety at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, home of the nuclear deterrent, might be compromised by job cuts.

One of the Tory MPs they lobbied was James Arbuthnot, who was then chairman of both the Commons defence select committee and the CFI parliamentary group.

In total, the chairman of the Defence Select Committee has claimed # 108,062 over the past five years - the maximum amount possible according to the paper.