Annex 3: Oral Evidence Sessions
Session 2005-06
| Date |
Inquiry / witnesses |
| 18 October 2005 | Future Carrier and Joint Combat Aircraft Programmes
Mr John Coles CB, CVF and MASC Integrated Project Team Leader, Ministry of Defence, Mr Allan Cameron, Managing Director, Thales Naval Business, UK, Mr Chris Geoghegan, Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems and Mr Tony Pryor CBE, Chairman of Devonport Royal Dockyard Limited (Kellogg, Brown and Root representative on the UK Aircraft Carrier Alliance project); Mr Tom Burbage, Executive Vice President and General Manager F-35 JSF Program Lockheed Martin, Mr Steve Mogford, Chief Operating Officer, BAE Systems, members of Team Lockheed, the Prime Contractor, and Commodore Simon Henley MBE, RN, Joint Combat Aircraft Integrated Project Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
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| 25 October 2005 | Future Carrier and Joint Combat Aircraft Programmes
Lord Drayson, a Member of the House of Lords, Minister for Defence Procurement, and Sir Peter Spencer KCB ADC, Chief of Defence Procurement, Ministry of Defence
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| 1 November 2005 | Introductory evidence session with the Secretary of State for Defence
Rt Hon John Reid MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Mr Desmond Bowen CMG, Policy Director, Mr Ian Andrews, Second Permanent Under-Secretary, and Lieutenant General Sir Rob Fry KCB CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Commitments), Ministry of Defence
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| 21 November 2005 | Delivering Front Line Capability to the RAF
Mr Bryan Godsell, Regional Officer for Wales, Ms Catherine Speight, Regional Secretary for Wales, Mr Gavin Toker, St Athan Convenor, Amicus, Mr Jim Cooper, Negotiating Officer, and Ms Helen Taylor, Chairperson for PCS National Branch, Prospect; Mr Archie Hughes, Chief Executive, DARA
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| 29 November 2005 | Delivering Front Line Capability to the RAF
Mr Stephen Hill, DARA Chief Executive (1999-2003); Rt Hon Adam Ingram, a Member of the House, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Air Vice Marshal Barry Thornton CB, Director General, Logistics (Strike) and Mr Nick Evans, Director General, Management and Organisation, Ministry of Defence
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| 17 January 2006 | The UK deployment to Afghanistan
Air Vice Marshal Chris Nickols CBE, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations), and Mr Martin Howard, Director General, Operational Policy, Ministry of Defence
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| 24 January 2006 | Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05
Mr Bill Jeffrey CB, Permanent Under Secretary of State, and Mr Trevor Woolley, Director of Finance, Ministry of Defence
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| Date |
Inquiry / witnesses
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| 31 January 2006 | The Defence Industrial Strategy
Mr Guy Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer, MBDA and DMA Council (Team Leader), Mr Roger Medwell, Managing Director, NP Aerospace, Dr David Price, CEO Chemring plc, and Mr Chris Cundy, Commercial Director, VT Group, Defence Manufacturers Association; Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE
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| 31 January 2006 | Meeting of the Quadripartite Committee on Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny
Mr David Hayes, Head of Export Controls, Rolls-Royce plc, and Chairman of the Export Group for Aerospace and Defence (EGAD), Mr Brinley Salzmann, Exports Director, Defence Manufacturers Association and Secretary EGAD, Mr Derek Marshall, Director of Aerospace Defence and Homeland Security, Society of British Aerospace Companies, Ms Bernadette Peers, Compliance Manager, Strategic Shipping Company Ltd, and Mr David Wilson, Export Compliance Manager, EDS Defence Ltd, EGAD; Mr Oliver Sprague, Research and Policy Adviser, Oxfam and UK Working Group on Arms, Mr Roy Isbister, Head of Export Controls and EU Section, Saferworld and UK Working Group on Arms, and Mr Mark Thomas, Broadcaster and Journalist
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| 7 February 2006 | The Defence Industrial Strategy
Mr Andy Stevens, Chief Operating Officer, Cobham Plc, Mr John Howe, Vice Chairman, Thales UK, Mr Graeme Ferrero, Managing Director, Defence Technology, QinetiQ, and Mr Paul Everitt, Director of Communications, Society of British Aerospace Companies; Professor Keith Hartley, Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Defence Economics, University of York, Professor Keith Hayward, Head of Research at the Royal Aeronautical Society, and Professor Ron Matthews, Chair in Defence Economics, Cranfield University
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| 28 February 2006 | The Defence Industrial Strategy
Sir John Chisholm, Executive Chairman, QinetiQ; Sir John Rose, Chairman of the Defence Industries Council (also Chief Executive, Rolls Royce plc), Dr Sally Howes, Secretary of the Defence Industries Council (also Director General, Society of British Aerospace Companies), and Mr Mike Turner CBE, Chief Executive, BAE Systems; Lord Drayson, Minister for Defence Procurement, Mr David Gould CB, Deputy Chief Executive, Defence Procurement Agency, and Mr Mark Gibson CB, Director General, Business Group, DTI
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| 7 March 2006 | The UK deployment to Afghanistan
Rt Hon Adam Ingram MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Air Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy KCB CBE, Commander of Joint Operations PJHQ, Dr Roger Hutton, Director Joint Commitments Policy, Ministry of Defence, and Mr Peter Holland, Head of the Afghan Drugs Inter-Departmental Unit (ADIDU), Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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| 13 March 2006 | Meeting of the Quadripartite Committee on Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny
Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry, with responsibility for the Export Control Organisation, Mr Glyn Williams, Director, Ms Jayne Carpenter, Assistant Director, and Mr David Whitehouse, Head of the Licensing Casework Unit, Export Control Organisation, Department of Trade and Industry
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| Date |
Inquiry / witnesses |
| 14 March 2006 | The Future of the UK's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: the Strategic Context
Mr Michael Codner, Director of Military Sciences, Royal United Services Institute, Dr Lee Willett, Head of Military Capabilities Programme, Military Sciences Department, Royal United Services Institute, Dr Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, Mr Dan Plesch, Research Associate, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Sir Michael Quinlan, Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute of Strategic Studies
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| 21 March 2006 | The Future of the UK's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: the Strategic Context
Mr David Broucher, University of Southampton, Professor Colin S Gray, University of Reading, Professor Shaun Gregory, University of Bradford, and Professor John Simpson, University of Southampton
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| 28 March 2006 | The Future of the UK's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: the Strategic Context
Mr Peter Whitehouse, Corporate Development Director, Devonport Management Limited, and Commodore (Rtd) Tim Hare; Dr Andrew Dorman, King's College London, Dr Dominick Jenkins, Greenpeace UK, Mr Malcolm Savidge, Oxford Research Group, and Dr Bruno Tertrais, Foundation for Strategic Research (Paris)
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| 19 April 2006 | Meeting of the Quadripartite Committee on Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny
Mr David Hayes, Head of Export Controls, Rolls-Royce plc, and Chairman of the Export Group for Aerospace and Defence (EGAD), Mr Brinley Salzmann, Exports Director, Defence Manufacturers Association and Secretary EGAD, Ms Bernadette Peers, Compliance Manager, Strategic Shipping Company Ltd, and Mr David Wilson, Export Compliance Manager, EDS Defence Ltd, EGAD
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| 24 April 2006 | Educating Service Children
Amber Martin, Kelly Saunders, Sheree Hart, Chris Horseman, Lucy Fawcett and David Pym, students from Alderman Blaxill Secondary School, Colchester; Mrs Rachel Troughton, Army Families Federation, Mrs Chris Cooper, Mr John Prosser, Mrs Heather Wheeler, Mrs Michelle Titcombe, Mrs Sharon Watson, Mrs Carolyn Mackay, Mrs Michelle Dunn, Mrs Maria Barber-Riley and Mr Anthony Evans, parents of Service children; Mr Mike Curtis, Head Teacher of Carterton School, Oxfordshire, Ms Tina Evans, Head Teacher, Zouch Primary School, Wiltshire, Mr Paul Ranson, Deputy Head Teacher, Alderman Blaxill School, Colchester, Essex, and Mr Derek Jones, Assistant Head Teacher, Alderman Blaxill School, Colchester, Essex
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| 25 April 2006 | Meeting of the Quadripartite Committee on Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny
Dr Kim Howells MP, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Mr Trevor Moore, Deputy Head, and Mr Graham Glover, Head of Arms Trade Unit, Counter-Proliferation Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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| 2 May 2006 | Educating Service Children
Mr Don Touhig MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence, Brigadier Anthony Brister, Director, Educational and Training Services (Army), Ms Liz Cassidy, Command Secretary, Adjutant General, Mr David Wadsworth, Chief Executive of Service Children's Education, and Ms Kathryn Forsyth, Assistant Chief Executive, School Effectiveness, Service Children's Education, Ministry of Defence
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| 11 May 2006 | The work of the Met Office
Mr Mark Hutchinson, Chief Executive, Dr Dave Griggs, Director of Climate Change, and Mr Steve Noyes, Director of Production, Met Office
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| Date |
Inquiry / witnesses |
| 23 May 2006 | The work of the Met Office
Mr Peter Ewins, former Chief Executive of the Met Office
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| 24 May 2006 | The work of the Met Office
Mr Tom Watson MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence, Mr Ian Andrews, Second Permanent Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence, and Mr Mark Hutchinson, Chief Executive, Met Office
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| 25 May 2006 | Meeting of the Quadripartite Committee on Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny
Mr Kevin Franklin, Director, Frontiers Customer Unit, Mr Mark Fuchter, Head of the Publications and Restrictions Policy Group, HM Revenue and Customs, and Mr David Green QC, Director, Mr David Richardson, Head of Division C (Border Detections), and Ms Helen Wolkind, Senior Lawyer, Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office
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| 13 June 2006 | Educating Service Children
Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools, and Ms Sue Garner, Head of the School Admissions and Class Size Unit, Department for Education and Skills
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| 20 June 2006 | UK Operations in Iraq
Rt Hon Adam Ingram MP, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Nick Houghton CBE, Chief of Joint Operations, Permanent Joint Headquarters, and Dr Roger Hutton, Director, Joint Commitments Policy, Ministry of Defence
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| 27 June 2006 | Defence Procurement 2006
Dr Iain Watson, Operations Director for Information Superiority, Dr Andrew Tyler, Director, Land and Maritime, Mr Jonathan Lyle, Operations Director, Air and Weapon Systems, and Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures, Deputy Chief of Staff (Equipment Capability), Ministry of Defence
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| 11 July 2006 | Introductory Evidence Session with the Secretary of State for Defence
Rt Hon Des Browne MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Brigadier Stephen Andrews CBE, Director, Service Personnel Policy Strategy, Ministry of Defence and Mr David Gould CB, Deputy Chief Executive, Defence Procurement Agency
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| 10 October 2006 | Defence Procurement 2006
Sir Peter Spencer KCB, Chief of Defence Procurement, Defence Procurement Agency, Ministry of Defence
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| 24 October 2006 | Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2005-06
Mr Bill Jeffrey CB, Permanent Under Secretary of State, and Mr Trevor Woolley, Finance Director, Ministry of Defence
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| 7 November 2006 | The Future of the UK's Strategic Export Controls: the Manufacturing and Skills Base
Mr Murray Easton, Managing Director, Submarines, BAE Systems, Mr Steve Ludlam, President Submarines, Rolls-Royce plc, and Mr Peter Whitehouse, Corporate Development Director, Devonport Management Limited; Mr Ron Grant, Managing Director, MacTaggart Scott & Company Ltd, Mr Jim Morrison, Unit Managing Director, Alstom, and Mr Joe Oatley, Managing Director, Weir Strachan & Henshaw
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