Examination of Witnesses (Questions 100-101)
27 OCTOBER 2004
MR JULIAN
MILLER, MRS
TERESA JONES,
CAPTAIN PETER
CRABTREE RN OBE, BRIGADIER
STEPHEN ANDREWS
CBE, AIR COMMODORE
DUSTY AMROLIWALA
OBE AND MR
HUMPHREY MORRISON
Q100 Mr Viggers: Just
quickly, the intention is to use the Armed Forces Bill as the
vehicle for implementing administrative change. Is it your expectation
and intention that this will operate in the same way as previous
select committees on the Armed Forces Bill, which will have a
Select Committee stage prior to the Standing Committee?
Mr Miller: Subject
to the views of the House, that is our expectation.
Q101 Chairman: The views
of the House can prevail a little. You are very lucky; you have
been saved by the bell. I am about to launch into a diatribe about
the appalling misuse of the Select Committee on the Armed Forces
Bill, which excluded free and independent members of Parliament;
it was an outrageous abuse of parliamentary power by the Alternative
Executive, PPSs, Whips. The only honourable person there was Rachel,
but she was a trustee who was put on, and if there is anything
remotely resembling that farce of composition I hope the House
will express its anger in the strongest possible way. Now, we
will write to you on that[10]
and the Clerk will be a little more discreet than I was in expressing
our views!
Mr Miller: We will
look forward to that. Thank you.
Chairman: Thank you very
much for coming.
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