Select Committee on Defence First Report


PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE

TUESDAY 28 JANUARY 2003

Mr Bruce George, in the Chair


Mr Frank RoyMr James Cran
Jim KnightMr David Crausby
Patrick MercerMr Gerald Howarth

Syd Rapson

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The Committee deliberated.

Draft Report (Missile Defence), proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 73 read and agreed to.

Annex [Summary] agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the First Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee be reported to the House.

Several memoranda were ordered to be reported to the House.

The Committee further deliberated.

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LIST OF WITNESSES

  Ev

  Wednesday 27 February 2002

  Ministry of Defence

Mr Brian Hawtin CB, Director- General, International Security Policy, Commodore Marcus Fitzgerald OBE, Director, Nuclear Policy, Mr Paul Roper, Director, Strategic Technologies and Mr Andy Helliwell, Assistant Director, Nuclear Policy for Missile Defence.   13

                

Wednesday 20 March 2002

  Ministry of Defence

Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon MP, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Defence,and

Mr Brian Hawtin CB, Director- General, International Security Policy   35

  Wednesday 15 January 2003

  Ministry of Defence

Rt Hon Geoffrey Hoon MP, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Defence, Mr Nick Witney, Director General, International Security Policy, and Mr Paul Taylor, Director, Strategic Technologies   49

WRITTEN EVIDENCE

  Memoranda Published with the Minutes of Evidence

Joint memorandum from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office   1

Supplementary memorandum from the Ministry of Defence: Ballistic Missile

Threat   33

Supplementary memorandum from the Ministry of Defence  59

  


 
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