8. Defence
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1998.
It had 11 Members and held 48 meetings.
|
| Members | Meetings attended |
|
|
Mr Bruce George (Chairman), | 46 |
|
Mr Crispin Blunt, | 40 |
|
Mr Julian Brazier, | 42 |
|
Mr Menzies Campbell, | 32 |
|
Mr Jamie Cann, | 34 |
|
Mr Harry Cohen, | 39 |
|
Mr Michael Colvin, | 31 |
|
Mr Jimmy Hood, | 28 |
|
Mr John McWilliam, | 22 |
|
Mrs Laura Moffatt, | 38 |
|
Ms Dari Taylor, | 34 |
|
Overall attendance: 73.1 %
Number of Members added: 0
Number of Members discharged: 0
Turnover of membership during the Session: 0
%
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr AR Kennon (until 30 September
1997), Mr PA Evans (from 1 October 1997).
Other Committee staff: Ms S McGlashan, Assistant
Clerk (Grade A3 ); Mr A M Kidner, Senior Clerk (seconded until
30 September 1997)(Grade 7); Mr ST Fiander, Senior Clerk (seconded
from 1 October 1997) (Grade 7); Mr JH Davies, Higher Executive
Officer (Grade 10); and Mrs KE Watling, Secretary (Grade 12).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Sir Michael Alcock, Professor Michael Clarke, Rear
Admiral Richard Cobbold, Professor Keith Hartley, Andrew Keeling,
Dr David Kirkpatrick, Jane Sharp, Major General Peter Sheppard.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the
following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:-
Cabinet Ministers: 5
Other Ministers: 10 (of which 3 were by a Member
of the House of Lords)
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives
of:-
Ministry of Defence: 46 (of whom 16 were members
of HM Services)
other departments: 6
comprising:- Foreign and Commonwealth Office 4
Department for International Development 2
executive agencies: 1
comprising:- Defence Evaluation and Research Agency 1
non-departmental public bodies: 2
comprising:-Royal Military College, Shrivenham 2
Appearances by other witnesses: 41
Overseas Visits
Date |
Destination
|
Members |
Staff |
Purpose
|
Cost |
30.9-1.10.97
|
Munich |
1
|
1
|
WEU Symposium |
£1,446.26
|
3-6.11.97 |
Bosnia
|
9
|
2
|
Bosnia inquiry |
£12,000 (estimate)
|
29-30.10.97 |
Bonn
|
3
|
1
|
To discuss Eurofighter project
|
£2,464,61
|
27-28.1.97 |
Brussels
|
7
|
2
|
NATO Enlargement
inquiry
|
£3,351.35
|
22-27.2.98 |
Washington
|
9
|
2
|
SDR inquiry |
£43,461.12
|
1-3.6.98 |
Germany
|
6
|
2*
|
SDR inquiry |
£6,934.29
|
* Includes 1 specialist adviser.
Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and
Strasbourg
None.
UK Visits
Date
|
Destination
|
Members
|
Staff
|
Purpose
|
Cost
|
31.10.97
|
PJHQ, Chicksands
|
3
|
1
|
Exercise Purple Link
|
£78.00
|
10.10.97
|
Type 23 Frigate |
3 |
1 |
Demonstration |
No cost
|
19.11.97
|
Duke of Yorks Headquarters,
|
6
|
1
|
SDR inquiry |
No cost
|
26.11.97
|
Farnborough |
6 |
2 |
DERA inquiry |
£274.80
|
3.2.98
|
Abbey Wood, Bristol
|
7
|
2
|
SDR inquiry |
£1,020.00
|
10.2.98
|
Farnborough |
5 |
5* |
DERA inquiry |
£305.80
|
10.3.98
|
Warton |
3
|
2**
|
Eurofighter project
|
No cost
|
18-19.3.98
|
Northern Ireland
|
5
|
3**
|
SDR inquiry |
£3,176.80
|
30/31.3.98
|
Barrow-in-Furness
|
5
|
2
|
Shipbuilding |
£1,293.59
|
20.5.98
|
Aldershot |
5
|
2
|
SDR inquiry |
£278.00
|
9.6.98
|
Royal Marines |
6 |
2 |
SDR inquiry |
No cost
|
5.11.98
|
Kinloss |
3
|
1
|
Exercise Purple Sound
|
No cost
|
* Includes 2 specialist advisers
** Includes 1 specialist adviser.
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title |
HC No.
(1997-98)
|
Date of
publication
|
No. of
pages
|
Sale price
|
Government
reply
|
First Report: Peace Support Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
403
|
8.12.97
|
28
|
£6.50
|
Received 3.2.98: published as Second Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Second Report: The Draft Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law)(Amendment) Order 1998
|
521
|
2.2.98
|
19
|
£5.10
|
Received 29.6.98: published as Third Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Third Report: NATO Enlargement
|
469
|
2.4.98
|
139
|
£15.90
|
Received 22.6.98: published as Third Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Fourth Report: Lessons of the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre
|
611
|
18.5.98
|
42
|
£10.60
|
Received 28.7.98: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Fifth Report: The Reserves Call Out Order 1998, Etc
|
868
|
10.8.98
|
25
|
£6.50
|
Received 28.9.98: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Sixth Report: The Defence Research and Evaluation Agency
|
621
|
6.7.98
|
75
|
£11.50
|
Received 4.9.98: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Seventh Report: Aspects of Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy
|
675
|
23.7.98
|
143
|
£15.90
|
Received 8.8.98: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Eighth Report: The Strategic Defence Review
|
138
|
10.9.98
|
735
|
£61.20
|
Received 10.11.98: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
First Special Report: Government Reply to the Committee's First to Sixth Reports of Session 1996-97: HC 94 (Sale of the Married Quarters Estate), HC211 (The Army Terms of Service (Amendment) Regulations (S.I., 1996, No. 2973)), HC142 (Defence Medical Services), HC 127 (Defence Spending), HC 233 (Heavy Lift) and HC 158 (Gulf War Illnesses: Latest Developments) 158.
|
153
|
29.7.98
|
17
|
£4.75
|
Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Government Response to the First Report of the Defence Committee, Session 1997-98
|
535
|
9.2.98
|
7
|
£2.20
|
Not applicable |
Third Special Report, Government Responses to the Second and Third Reports from the Defence Committee, Session 1997-98
|
903
|
13.7.98
|
9
|
£2.80
|
Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Reports from the Defence Committee, Session 1997-98
|
1109
|
4.11.98
|
10
|
£3.40
|
Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to the Seventh Report from the Defence Committee, Session 1997-98
|
1131
|
4.11.98
|
7
|
£2.25
|
Not applicable |
Sixth Special Report: Government Response to the Eighth Report from the Defence Committee, Session 1997-98
|
1189
|
3.12.98
|
19
|
£4.75
|
Not applicable |
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to debates in the House:
Second Report, 1997-98, The Draft Visiting Forces and International
Headquarters (Application of Law) (Amendment) Order 1998, on a
motion to approve the draft Visiting Forces and International
Headquarters (Application of Law) (Amendment) Order 1998, 4.2.98
Fifth Report, 1997-98, The Reserves Call Out Order 1998, Etc.,
Sixth Report, 1997-98, The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency,
Seventh Report, 1997-98, Aspects of Defence Procurement and Industrial
Policy, and Eighth Report, 1997-98, The Strategic Defence Review,
on a Government motion to approve the conclusions of the Strategic
Defence Review, 19-20.10.98
First Special Report, 1997-98, Government Replies to the First
to Sixth Reports of Session 1996-97, HC 94 (Sale of the Married
Quarters Estate), HC211 (The Army Terms of Service (Amendment)
Regulations (S.I., 1996, No. 2973)), HC142 (Defence Medical Services),
HC 127 (Defence Spending), HC 233 (Heavy Lift) and HC 158 (Gulf
War Illnesses: Latest Developments), on a Government motion for
the Adjournment of the House, 28.10.97
Fifth Report, Session 1996-97, Heavy Lift and the Government's
response thereto, First Special Report, 1997-98, on a Government
motion for the Adjournment of the House, 23.4.98
First Report, 1997-98, Peace Support Operations in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, on a Government motion for the Adjournment of the
House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4),
17.6.98
Third Report, 1997-98, NATO Enlargement, on a Government motion
for the Adjournment of the House, 17.7.98
Eighth Report, 1997-98, The Strategic Defence Review, on a Government
motion for the Adjournment of the House, 28.10.98
Eighth Report, 1997-98, The Strategic Defence Review, on a Government
motion for the Adjournment of the House, 12.11.98
The following Minutes of Evidence were referred to on the Order
Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:
Minutes of Evidence, 29 July 1997, HC 138-i, on the Strategic
Defence Review, 28.10.97
Minutes of Evidence, 30 July 1997, HC 222-i on Gulf War Illnesses,
28.10.97
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 34 of the Committee's 48 meetings.
On one occasion evidence was taken partly in private. The Committee
received 298 memoranda, of which 112 came from Government departments.
The Committee published 124 memoranda.
Inquiry |
No. of oral evidence sessions
|
No. of memoranda received
|
No. of memoranda received from Government departments/
executive agencies/
associated public bodies
|
No. of memoranda published
|
No. of memoranda made available in the Record Office for public use and placed in the Library
|
Peace Support Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
0
|
0 |
-
|
--
|
-
|
The Draft Visiting Forces and International Headquarters (Application of Law)(Amendment) Order 1998
|
1
|
1
|
1/0/0
|
1
|
0
|
NATO Enlargement |
4 |
18 |
4/0/0
|
14
|
0
|
Lessons of the Chinook Crash on the Mull of Kintyre
|
1
|
24
|
3/0/0
|
8
|
0
|
The Reserves Call Out Order 1998, Etc
|
1
|
1
|
1/0/0
|
1
|
0
|
The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
|
1
|
20
|
2/0/0
|
17
|
-
|
Aspects of Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy
|
2
|
27
|
2/0/0
|
23
|
0
|
The Strategic Defence Review
|
23
|
84
|
27/0/2
|
60
|
0
|
Miscellaneous |
1 |
123 |
71/0/0
|
0
|
2
|
Total |
34
|
298
|
112/0/2
|
124
|
2
|
|
