• The Defence Select Committee is one of the Select Committees of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, having been established in 1979. It examines...
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    and defence procurement. The expenditure, administration and policy of the MOD are scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee, except for Defence Intelligence...
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    majority of parliamentary committees are select committees. The remit of these committees vary depending on whether they are committees of the House of Commons...
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    Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) since 2020, succeeding Dominic Grieve. Lewis previously served as Chair of the Defence Select Committee (HCDC), from 2015...
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    secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee. The current secretary of state for defence is John Healey, who was appointed on 5 July...
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    elected to the House of Commons and in 2014 was elected chair of the Defence Select Committee. He served under David Cameron as Minister for the Environment...
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    chaired the Defence Select Committee from 2020 to 2023, and was Minister for Defence Veterans, Reserves and Personnel at the Ministry of Defence from 2017...
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    politics, parliamentary select committees can be appointed from the House of Commons, like the Foreign Affairs Select Committee; from the House of Lords...
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  • Défense and Armed Forces Commission and the British House of Commons Defence Select Committee was sat to discuss the FC/ASW program one year into its concept...
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    Hampshire from 1997 to 2015. Arbuthnot served as chairman of the Defence Select Committee from 2005 to 2014, before being nominated as a life peer in the...
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