The Committees on Arms Export Controls
The Business Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign
Affairs and International Development Committees are appointed
by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration,
and policy of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory
Reform, the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, the Department for International Development and any associated
public bodies.
Current membership
BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS: Mr Adrian Bailey*§,
Mr Brian Binley, Paul Blomfield*, Katy Clark*, Rebecca Harris,
Margot James*, Dan Jarvis, Simon Kirby, Ian Murray*, Mr David
Ward, Nadhim Zahawi*
DEFENCE: Rt Hon James Arbuthnot*§, Mr Julian
Brazier, Thomas Docherty*, Rt Hon Jeffrey M. Donaldson*, John
Glen*, Mr Mike Hancock, Mr Dai Harvard*, Mrs Madeleine Moon*,
Penny Mordaunt,* Sandra Osborne*, Bob Stewart*, Ms Gisela Stuart*
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: , Rt Hon Sir John Stanley* (Chair
of the Committees' concurrent meetings), Richard Ottaway§,
Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth, Mr John Baron, Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell,
Rt Hon Ann Clwyd, Mike Gapes*, Andrew Rosindell, Mr Frank Roy,
Rory Stewart, Dave Watts*
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce*§,
Hugh Bayley, Richard Burden*, Sam Gyimah, Richard Harrington*,
Pauline Latham, Jeremy Lefroy, Michael McCann*, Alison McGovern,
Anas Sarwar, Chris White*
* Member who participated in the inquiry leading
to this Report
§ Chair of a participating Committee
Powers
The Committees are departmental select committees,
the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders,
principally in Standing Order No 152. The powers of the Committees
to work together and agree joint reports are set out in Standing
Order No. 137A. These Standing Orders are available on the Internet
via www.parliament.uk.
Publication
The Reports and evidence of the Committees are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. Individual and
joint publications of the Committees are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/business/committees.cfm.
A list of Joint Reports of the Committees in the present Parliament
is at the back of this volume.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are Mick Hillyard
(Clerk), Eliot Barrass (Second Clerk) and Vanessa Hallinan (Committee
Assistant).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Committees on Arms Export Controls, House of Commons, 7
Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries
is 020 7219 1223; the Committees' email address is arms_committees@parliament.uk
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