Select Committee on Defence First Special Report

ANNEX E: Committee Recommendations: Progress (continued)

Seventh Report: Aspects of Defence Procurement and Industrial Policy, HC 675, published 23 July 1998
Government Response: Fifth Special Report, HC 1131, published 3 November 1998

	Recommendations and undertakings	Government Response	Committee Response/Follow-up	Further GovernmentAction	Notes
6.	That access to strategically important technologies and manufacturing capabilities, is secured by ensuring mutual inter-dependence. (paragraph ?).	Agreed. Security of supply remains a key MoD focus, as part of wider VFM assessment.	See Fifth Report, Session 1998-99, HC 274. See First Report, Session 1999-2000.		Issue reexamined in HC 274. Six-Nation Framework Agreement Treaty presented 1.11.2000, evidence requested, report due.

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Prepared 5 February 2001