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Sponsored content: A guide to mutuals and social enterprises
...rvices (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill (currently at committee stage in the House of Commons) aims to strengthen the SE bu...the workers provide (although services in some areas, such as defence, may be exempt). Maude has indi...
Nimrod crash blamed on budget cuts
...e set between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and industry. Partnersh...Radley, a former Chief of the Defence Staff, said he greatly regret...tandards was discussed in the Commons after Ainsworth's announcement, with Conservative defence select committee chairman James Arbuthnot warn...
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Ricketts defends principle of civil servant, not minister, holding national security role
...ance before Parliament’s Joint Committee on the National Security St...boundary issues with the foreign and defence and development secretaries”.At the committee last week, Ricketts faced str...stion of who reports to the House of Commons on an issue that is national se...
...a report released today, the Commons defence select committee said answers given by minis...itnesses gave evidence to our defence equipment 2009 inquiry, the MoD...now appear disingenuous.” Committee chair James Arbuthnot said th...need to be more open with the defence committee in the future. “The...
Interviews
...gate the relationship between defence secretary Liam Fox and Adam W...he replies – presumably by defence permanent secretary Ursula Br...resigning, Fox claimed in the Commons that the ministerial code shoul...and the perm sec remuneration committee, and share a private office i...
...ing an argument in the select committee about facts.”Ultimately,...by the approach taken by the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which conducts its o...questions at the Ministry of DefenceIn 2006, Amyas Morse took over a...l director of the Ministry of Defence; a job he held until he joined...
Features
...n Assurance (OCSIA), told the Commons science and technology select committee that, from a government poi...t year, Marsh told the select committee, over 450,000 public servants....This autumn, the Strategic Defence and Security Review announced t...
...secretary of the Ministry of Defence] Sir Michael Quinlan, who was c...isciplinary team based at the Defence Academy which provided advice a...g at an open door”, and the committee will find “a ready audience...of a re-invigorated House of Commons and stronger select committees,...
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Department for Transport: non-executive directors
...t in which four Centrica workers died in a helicopter crash, and in a recent appearance before the House of Commons business and enterprise select committee he provided an assertive defence of Centrica’s high management...
Special report: The hard road ahead
...e sold, however. The Ministry Of Defence (MoD) has announced a review...Services Bill, currently in the Commons, will allow private owners to...bstantial trial: the Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office and Departmen...the public administration select committee last week, Sir Gus O’Donnel...
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In December it was announced that new aircraft carriers would be delayedA cross-party group of MPs has issued a damning verdict on the way defence equipment is boughtA cross-party group of MPs has issued a damning verdict on the way defence equipment is bought.Urgent requirements in Afghanistan a...
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In December it was announced that new aircraft carriers would be delayedA cross-party group of MPs has issued a damning verdict on the way defence equipment is boughtA cross-party group of MPs has issued a damning verdict on the way defence equipment is bought.Urgent requirements in Afghanistan a...
Tags: quentin davies, Ministry of Defence, defence equipment and weapon systems, defence equipment & support, defence industrial strategy, Procurement, commons defence committee