Defence - Eleventh Report
Decision-making in Defence Policy

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 March 2015.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

The inquiry

2 Case Studies

Decision-making in Helmand

Decision-making and the Carriers

Where to go from there

3 The ultimate goal

The necessary characteristics for decision-making

The key expectations: criteria for decision-making

4 Efforts to change

Changes to the roles of the Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of the Defence Staff

Levene Reforms

National Security Council

Assessing the impact of the new structures

Potential strengths

Weaknesses

Additional weakness of the NSC

Summary of the impact of the Levene Reforms and the NSC

5 What more needs to be done?

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

Published written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Session

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Prepared 26 March 2015