Annex 3: Oral Evidence Sessions
Session 2008-09
| — Date
| — Evidence session
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| — 16 December 2008
| — Defence Equipment 2009
— Mr Quentin Davies MP, Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel, Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment Capability), and Mr Amyas Morse, Defence Commercial Director, Ministry of Defence
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| — 20 January 2009
| — Defence Support Group
— Mr Archie Hughes, Chief Executive, Defence Support Group and Major General Ian Dale CBE, Director General Land Equipment, Defence Equipment and Support, Ministry of Defence
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| — 27 January 2009
| — The Defence contribution to UK national security and resilience
— 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; 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
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| — 3 February 2009
| — Readiness and recuperation for the contingent tasks of today
— Vice Admiral Paul Bossier, Deputy Commander in Chief Fleet Command, Lt General Sir Graeme Lamb, Commander Field Army (Land), Air Marshal Iain McNicoll, Deputy Commander in Chief Operations (Air), and Brigadier Kevin Abraham, Director Joint Capability and Brigadier James Everard OBE, Ministry of Defence
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| — 10 February 2009
| — Readiness and recuperation for the contingent tasks of today
— Vice Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, Chief of Materiel (Fleet), Lt General Dick Applegate, Chief of Materiel (Land), Air Vice-Marshal Kevin Leeson, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Strategy and Plans), and Air Vice-Marshal Simon J Bollom, Director General Combat (Air)
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| — 24 February 2009
| — Russia: a new confrontation?
— Mr Edward Lucas, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent, The Economist, Professor Margot Light, London School of Economics, and Mr James Sherr, Head, Russia and Eurasia Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House
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| — 17 March 2009
| — Russia: a new confrontation?
— Professor Jonathan Stern, Director, Gas Research, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, and Mr John Roberts, Energy Security Specialist, Platts; Professor Martin McCauley, Senior Lecturer, University of London, Dr Roy Allison, Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Dr Alex Pravda, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University
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| — 17 March 2009
| — Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces: the first year
— Dr Susan Atkins, Service Complaints Commissioner for the Armed Forces
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| — 24 March 2009
| — Russia: a new confrontation?
— Ms Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies; Mr Denis Corboy, Director of Caucasus Policy Institute, King's College, London (and former EU Ambassador to the Caucasus), and Sir Andrew Wood, Associate Fellow at Chatham House (and former UK Ambassador to Moscow)
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| — 21 April 2009
| — Russia: a new confrontation?
— Rt Hon Baroness Taylor of Bolton, a Member of the House of Lords, Minister for International Defence and Security, Group Captain Malcolm Crayford, Deputy Head Security Co-operation, Counter Proliferation & Security Co-operation Division, Ms Gloria Craig, Director, International Security Policy, Ministry of Defence; Rt Hon Caroline Flint MP, Minister for Europe, Mr Nick Pickard, Head of Security Policy Group, and Mr Justin McKenzie Smith, Deputy Director of Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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| — 28 April 2009
| — Readiness and recuperation for the contingent tasks of today
— Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Defence
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| — 19 May 2009
| — Helicopter Capability
— Mr Nick Whitney, Senior Vice President, UK Government Business Unit, AgustaWestland, Mr David Pitchforth, Managing Director, Boeing UK Rotorcraft Support, Mr Derek Sharples, Vice President of Customer Support, Eurocopter and Mr Alex Sharp, Regional Sales Manager—Europe, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation; Mr Paul O'Hara, Vice President, Customer Relations, (Defence Aerospace) Rolls-Royce, Dr Beatrice Nicholas, Director, Surveillance and Protection Technologies, SELEX Galileo and Mr Declan O'Shea, Chief Executive, Vector Aerospace Corporation
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| — 2 June 2009
| — Helicopter Capability
— Rear Admiral Simon Charlier, Chief of Staff, Carrier-Strike and Aviation, Rear Admiral Tony Johnstone-Burt OBE, Commander, Joint Helicopter Command, and Brigadier Kevin Abraham, Head of Joint Capability, Ministry of Defence; Mr Quentin Davies MP, Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, Mr Adrian Baguley, Head of Helicopters 2, and Commodore Russ Harding, Head of Equipment Capability (Air & Littoral Manoeuvre), Ministry of Defence
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| — 9 June 2009
| — The Comprehensive Approach
— Professor Theo Farrell, King's College, London, Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Royal United Service Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), King's College, London and University of Bradford, and Brigadier (retired) Ed Butler, Chief Executive CforC Ltd
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| — 16 June 2009
| — The Comprehensive Approach
— Sir Bill Jeffrey KCB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Sir Peter Ricketts KCMG, Permanent Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Dr Nemat 'Minouche' Shafik, Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development
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| — 30 June 2009
| — The Comprehensive Approach
— General John McColl, Deputy Supreme Allied Command Europe, Mr Martin Howard, Assistant Secretary General for Operations, NATO, Mr Nick Williams, Deputy to the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Kabul, and Mr Robert Cooper, Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union; Mr Daniel Korski, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, Mr Howard Mollett, Conflict Policy Adviser, Care International, and Mr Stephen Grey, journalist, Sunday Times
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| — 7 July 2009
| — The Comprehensive Approach
— Bill Rammell MP, Minister for the Armed Forces, Brigadier Gordon Messenger DSO OBE ADC, Ministry of Defence, Michael Foster MP, Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State for Development, Department for International Development, Rt Hon Lord Malloch-Brown, a Member of the House of Lords, KCMG, Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, Nick Pickard, Head of the Security Policy Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Richard Teuten, Head of Stabilisation Unit
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| — 14 July 2009
| — The contribution of ISTAR to operations
— Air Vice-Marshal Carl Dixon OBE, Capability Manager (Information Superiority), Air Commodore N J Gordon MBE, Air Officer ISTAR in Headquarters 2 Group, Brigadier Kevin Abraham, Director Joint Capability, Ministry of Defence
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| — 20 October 2009
| — The contribution of ISTAR to operations
— Mr Victor Chavez, Deputy Chief Executive, Thales UK, Mr Peter Eberle, UK Business Development Director, Mission and Security Systems, General Dynamics, and Mr Joel Grundy, Head of Defence & Security, Intellect; Brigadier Gordon Messenger DSO OBE, Commander, 3rd Commando Brigade Royal Marines, Air Commodore Stuart Atha DSO ADC, UK Air Component Commander, and Lieutenant Colonel Andrew McInerney, Command Support Group, 3rd Commando Brigade Royal Marines, Ministry of Defence
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| — 10 November 2009
| — Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2008-09
— Sir Bill Jeffrey KCB, Permanent Secretary and Terence Jagger, Director Financial Management, Ministry of Defence
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