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
Rory Stewart MP (Conservative,
Penrith and The Border) (Chair)
Richard Benyon MP
(Conservative, Newbury)
Rt Hon Jeffrey M.
Donaldson MP (Democratic Unionist, Lagan Valley)
Mr James Gray MP
(Conservative, North Wiltshire)
Mr Dai Havard MP
(Labour, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney)
Dr Julian Lewis MP
(Conservative, New Forest East)
Mrs Madeleine Moon
MP (Labour, Bridgend)
Sir Bob Russell MP
(Liberal Democrat, Colchester)
Bob Stewart MP (Conservative,
Beckenham)
Ms Gisela Stuart
MP (Labour, Birmingham, Edgbaston)
Derek Twigg MP (Labour,
Halton)
John Woodcock MP
(Labour/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.
Publication
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 James Rhys (Clerk), Leoni Kurt (Second Clerk),
Karen Jackson (Audit Adviser), Eleanor Scarnell (Committee Specialist),
Ian Thomson (Committee Specialist), Christine Randall (Senior
Committee Assistant), Rowena Macdonald and Carolyn Bowes (Committee
Assistants), and Sumati Sowamber (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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