Defence Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 5 May 2009.

Defence Committee

Tuesday 27 January 2009

Members present:

Mr James Arbuthnot, in the Chair

Mr David S Borrow	Mr Brian Jenkins
Linda Gilroy	Robert Key
Mr Adam Holloway	Mrs Madeleine Moon
Mr Bernard Jenkin	John Smith

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: General Sir David Richards KCB CBE DSO ADC Gen, (Late Royal Regiment of Artillery), as Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces, also Standing Joint Commander (UK) (SJC(UK)) with responsibility for the provision of military aid to civil power within the United Kingdom, and Brigadier James Everard OBE, Director Commitments, HQ Land Commitments, Ministry of Defence, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

189-199

200-219

220-236

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Witnesses: Ms Niki Tompkinson CB, Director, Transport Security and Contingencies Directorate, Chief Constable Bernard Hogan-Howe, Lead Officer for Maritime and Air Support Policing, Association of Chief Police Officers, Mr Rod Johnson, Chief Coastguard, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and Mr Brodie Clark, Head, Border Force, UK Border Agency, gave evidence.

237-239

240-259

260-279

280-299

300-319

320-331

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Prepared 18 May 2009