The Defence Committee
The Defence Committee
is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure,
administration, and policy of the Ministry of Defence and its
associated public bodies.
Current membership
Rt Hon James Arbuthnot
MP (Conservative, North East Hampshire) (Chair)
Mr Julian Brazier
MP (Conservative, Canterbury)
Thomas Docherty MP
(Labour, Dunfermline and West Fife)
Rt Hon Jeffrey M.
Donaldson MP (Democratic Unionist, Lagan Valley)
John Glen MP (Conservative,
Salisbury)
Mr Mike Hancock MP
(Liberal Democrat, Portsmouth South)
Mr Dai Havard MP
(Labour, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
Mrs Madeleine Moon
MP (Labour, Bridgend)
Penny Mordaunt MP
(Conservative, Portsmouth North)
Sandra Osborne MP
(Labour, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
Bob Stewart MP (Conservative,
Beckenham)
Ms Gisela Stuart
MP (Labour, Birmingham, Edgbaston)
The following were
also Members of the Committee during the Parliament.
Mr David Hamilton
MP (Labour, Midlothian)
Mr Adam Holloway
MP (Conservative, Gravesham)
Alison Seabeck MP
(Labour, Moor View)
John Woodcock MP
(Lab/Co-op, Barrow and Furness)
Powers
The Committee is one of the departmental select committees,
the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders,
principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet
via www.parliament.uk.
Publications
The Reports 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/defcom.
Committee staff
The current staff
of the Committee are Alda Barry (Clerk), Georgina Holmes-Skelton
(Second Clerk), Karen Jackson (Audit Adviser), Ian Thomson (Inquiry
Manager), Christine Randall (Senior Committee Assistant), Christine
McGrane (Committee Assistant) and Miguel Boo Fraga (Committee
Support Assistant).
Contacts
All correspondence
should be addressed to the Clerk of the Defence Committee, House
of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general
enquiries is 020 7219 5745; the Committee's email address is defcom@parliament.uk.
Media inquiries should be addressed to Alex Paterson on 020 7219
1589.
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