FIRST SPECIAL REPORT
The Defence Committee has agreed to the following
Special Report:—
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR SESSION
1999-2000
INTRODUCTION
1. Under Standing Order No. 152 of the House of Commons
the Defence Committee is made responsible for monitoring the expenditure,
policy and administration of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and
associated bodies. This is our third annual report in which we
seek to account to the House (and a wider readership) for our
performance of this scrutiny task.[8]
We are pleased that the Liaison Committee has built upon our initiative
by requesting annual reports from each of the other departmentally-related
select committees as well.[9]
2. We begin, as before, by reviewing the Committee's
activities over the 1999-2000 Session. We then consider our Reports
and the government's responses to them. We then review a number
of miscellaneous issues which arose in the course of the year,
and some broader questions which have arisen in the course of
our deliberations and inquiries. We then outline the principal
features of the Committee's programme for the current and future
sessions. Finally, we review our achievements against our objectives
for the year.
8 First Special Report, Session 1998-99, Annual Report
of the Committee, HC 273, First Special Report, Session 1999-2000,
Annual Report of the Committee, HC 219 Back
9 First
Report from the Liaison Committee, Session 1999-2000, Shifting
the Balance: Select Committees and the Executive, HC300, paragraphs
51-55 Back
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