Select Committee on Defence First Special Report

ANNEX G: Committee Recommendations: Progress (continued)

Fourth Report: Armed Forces Discipline Bill [Lords] (HC 253) Published:16 February 2000
Government Reply: Published:

	Recommendations and undertakings	Government Response	Committee Response/Follow-up	Further Government Action	Notes
1.	That the MoD address the consolidation of Service law with more urgency than has been the case hitherto. (Para 28)	See Standing Committee Proceedings (SC D) 29.2.2000-14.3.2000
2.	That the MoD will see the benefits of introducing legislation in draft form so that we can take up the opportunity to comment on proposals before they are formally introduced into Parliament as Bills. (Para 32)	Accepted			Armed Forces Bill 2000-01 introduced without preceding draft Bill.

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Prepared 5 February 2001