Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill
The Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill was
appointed by an Order of the House of Commons to consider the
Armed Forces Bill.
Current membership
Rt Hon James Arbuthnot MP (Conservative, North
East Hampshire) (Chair)
Alex Cunningham MP
(Labour, Stockton North)
Thomas Docherty MP
(Labour, Dunfermline and West Fife)
Gemma Doyle MP (Labour/Co-operative,
West Dunbartonshire)
Mr Tobias Ellwood
MP (Conservative, Bournemouth East)
Mr Mark Francois
MP (Conservative, Rayleigh and Wickford)
Mr Kevan Jones MP
(Labour, North Durham)
Mark Lancaster MP
(Conservative, Milton Keynes North)
Jack Lopresti MP
(Labour, Filton and Bradley Stoke)
Sandra Osborne MP
(Labour, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Christopher Pincher
MP (Conservative, Tamworth)
Mr Andrew Robathan
MP (Conservative, South Leicestershire)
Bob Russell MP (Liberal
Democrat, Colchester)
David Wright MP (Labour,
Telford)
Powers
Extract from the
Votes and Proceedings, 10 January 2011:
"Armed Forces Bill,—Ordered, That the following provisions
shall apply to the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill:
1. The Committee shall have 14 members, to be nominated by the
Committee of Selection.
2. The Committee shall have power—
(a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding
any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place and
to report from day to day the minutes of evidence taken before
it;
(b) to admit the public during the examination of witnesses and
during consideration of the Bill (but not otherwise); and
(c) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information
not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity relating
to the provisions of the Armed Forces Bill."
Publications
The Report and evidence of the Committee are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications
of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet
at: www.parliament.uk/afbcom.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are Georgina Holmes-Skelton
(Clerk) and Miguel Boo Fraga (Committee Assistant).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill, House of Commons,
London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is
020 7219 5857; the Committee's email address is afbcommittee@parliament.uk.
Media inquiries should be addressed to Alex Paterson on 020 7219
1589.
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