DOCSLIB.ORG

Iraq: an Initial Assessment of Post- Conflict Operations

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Iraq: an Initial Assessment of Post- Conflict Operations House of Commons Defence Committee Iraq: An Initial Assessment of Post- Conflict Operations Sixth Report of Session 2004–05 Volume II Oral and Written Evidence Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 16 March 2005 HC 65-II [Incorporating HC 721-i-ii, Session 2003–04] Published on 24 March 2005 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £16.50 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 Mr Bruce George MP (Labour, Walsall South) (Chairman) Mr James Cran MP (Conservative, Beverley and Holderness) Mr David Crausby MP (Labour, Bolton North East) Mike Gapes MP (Labour, Ilford South) Mr Mike Hancock CBE MP (Liberal Democrat, Portsmouth South) Mr Dai Havard MP (Labour, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) Mr Kevan Jones MP (Labour, North Durham) Richard Ottaway MP (Conservative, Croydon South) Mr Frank Roy MP (Labour, Motherwell and Wishaw) Rachel Squire MP (Labour, Dunfermline West) Mr Peter Viggers MP (Conservative, Gosport) The following Member was also a member of the Committee during the period covered by this report. Mr Crispin Blunt MP (Conservative, Reigate) 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/parliamentary_committees/defence_committee.cfm A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is at the back of this volume. Committee Staff The current staff of the Committee are Mark Hutton (Clerk), Richard Cooke (Second Clerk), Ian Rogers (Audit Adviser), Daniel Korski (Committee Specialist), Adrian Jenner (Inquiry Manager), Lis McCracken (Committee Assistant), Sheryl Dinsdale (Secretary), and James McQuade (Senior Office Clerk). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerks of the Defence Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general inquiries is 020 7219 5745; the Committee’s e-mail address is [email protected]. Media inquiries should be addressed to Adele Brown on 020 7219 0724. Witnesses Wednesday 23 June 2004 Page Mr Martin Howard, Director General, Operational Policy, and Major General Nick Houghton, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations), Ministry of Defence Ev 1 Tuesday 2 November 2004 Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, a Member of the House, Secretary of State for Defence, Ministry of Defence Ev 19 Wednesday 26 January 2005 Chief Constable Paul Kernaghan, Chief Constable Hampshire Constabulary and ACPO Coordinator for International Policing, Mr Stephen Pattison, Director of International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Mr Stephen Rimmer, Director, Policing Policy, Home Office, and Dr Owen Greene, Director for the Centre for International Security and Co-operation, University of Bradford Ev 31 Wednesday 26 January 2005 Mr Martin Howard, Director General, Operational Policy, Lt General John McColl CBE DSO, Former British Military Representative in Iraq, Major General Nick Houghton CBE, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) and Major General Bill Rollo CBE, former General Officer Commanding MND (SE), Ministry of Defence Ev 56 Wednesday 2 February 2005 Mr Martin Howard, Director General, Operational Policy, Lt General John McColl CBE DSO, Former British Military Representative in Iraq, Major General Nick Houghton CBE, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) and Major General Bill Rollo CBE, former General Officer Commanding MND (SE), Ministry of Defence Ev 63 Wednesday 9 February 2005 Mr Jim Drummond, Former Director, Iraq Directorate, Ms Pauline Hays, Senior Programme Manager, Iraq, and Mr Rodney Matthews, Former Head of Office, Basra, Department for International Development Ev 86 Wednesday 9 February 2005 Rt Hon Adam Ingram, a Member of the House, Minister for the Armed Forces, Major General Nick Houghton CBE, Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) and Dr Roger Hutton, Director, Joint Commitments, Ministry of Defence Ev 102 6 Iraq List of written evidence Ministry of Defence Ev 122 Follow-up to the evidence session on 23 June 2004 Ev 125 Follow-up to the evidence session on 2 February 2005 Ev 126 Follow-up to the evidence session on 9 February 2005 Ev 129 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Follow-up to the evidence session on 26 January 2005 Ev 130 Department for International Development Follow-up to the evidence session on 9 February 2005 Ev 132 Human Rights Watch Ev 134 Shlomo Avineri, Herbert Samuel Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Ev 137 Colonel (retd) C R Langton, International Institute for Strategic Studies Ev 139 Dr Rod Thornton, Joint Service Command College Ev 141 Ministry of Defence Follow-up to the evidence sessions on 2 and 9 February 2005 Ev 145 Kevin Hurley, Chief Superintendent, City of London Police Ev 148 Letter from the Secretary of State for Defence Ev 150 Defence Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Defence Committee on Wednesday 23 June 2004 Members present: Mr Crispin Blunt Mike Gapes Rachel Squire Mr Dai Havard Mr Peter Viggers Mr Frank Roy In the absence of Mr George Bruce, Mr Peter Viggers was called to the Chair Witnesses: Mr Martin Howard, Director General, Operational Policy, and Major General Nick Houghton, Assistant Chief of Defence StaV (Operations), examined. Q1 Mr Viggers: Thank you for joining us. I am sorry which cover these sort of issues for us in the pre-30 that you were kept waiting a few minutes, we had June environment. The Transitional Administrative some important business to do and we also had to Law does allow for CPA orders tocontinueafter 30 vote twice which delayed us for half an hour before June soit seems very likely that with the agreement we commenced business this afternoon. Mr of IIG the amendments to those will give us the cover Howard, would you care to introduce yourself and we are looking for. That is where we are at the your colleague? moment. There is still some work to do—it looks like Mr Howard: I am Martin Howard and I am Director it is mostly tidying up—but we are confident that it General, Operational Policy, Ministry of Defence. will be resolved by 30 June. My colleague is Major General Nick Houghton, whois Assistant Chief ofDefence Sta V Q3 Mr Viggers: And resolution 1546: “Notes that (Operations). the presence of the multinational force is at the request of the incoming Interim Government of Iraq.” Q2 Mr Viggers: Thank you. May I start by asking Mr Howard: That is right, yes. you to explain the legal authority for the presence of British forces now in Iraq and post-30 June? Can V you try to put that in terms which we and even the Q4 Mr Viggers: Which of course was e ectively public can understand? appointed by the occupying forces? Mr Howard: I shall try and dothat, Chairman. We Mr Howard: I think the membership of the are obviously concerned that this is dealt with government was endorsed by the United Nations properly and we are dealing with it in a number of as well. respects. In the first instance of course, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1546 provides Q5 Mr Viggers: Sowill there be a lacuna on30 June part of the legal basis, together with the side letters or do you envisage that the negotiations will from Prime Minister Allawi and the US Secretary of resolve that? State, and with the combination of those two things Mr Howard: We believe they will be resolved by 30 we are very content that that covers our authority to June. be there, our authority to carry out operations including oVensive operations where necessary and Q6 Mr Viggers: Are there any practical diVerences also, if need be, to detain people in the event of the between the mandates under Resolution 1511 and precise words “imperative security need” There are Resolution 1546? a number of other issues that need to be resolved Mr Howard: I donotbelieve there are any before 30 June to do with what we would call a status diVerences. I donotbelieve there are any. of forces agreement. These are issues such as Major General Houghton: Perhaps if I were tosay jurisdiction, access to country and in-country real that from the point of view of the way in which the estate issues. Those issues are being discussed now multinational force will operate, quite clearly, prior between the Coalition Provisional Authority and the to 30 June the way in which the coalition forces Interim Iraqi Government. The IIG, if I can use that operated was very much within their own chain of abbreviation, is aware of what we need and command and to a strategy that was laid down by understands what we need and it is really a question that chain of command. The major diVerence in of sorting out precise mechanisms for giving reality on the ground post the 30th is what is protection and cover to our forces in those areas that described in UNSCR side letters as a partnership I have described. We think it is most likely that this will exist between what is now known as the will be done by amending Coalition Provisional multinational force and the Iraqi sovereign Authority or CPA orders which already exist and authority. So there will not be, as it were, allowance Ev 2 Defence Committee: Evidence 23 June 2004 Mr Martin Howard and Major General Nick Houghton for independent action taken outside the consensus Mr Howard: The precise ones are Al Basrah, Al- of that partnership.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Open PDF 142KB
    Select Committee on International Relations and Defence Corrected oral evidence: The UK and Afghanistan Wednesday 21 October 2020 11 am Watch the meeting Members present: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (The Chair); Lord Alton of Liverpool; Baroness Blackstone; Baroness Fall; Lord Grocott; Lord Hannay of Chiswick; Baroness Helic; Lord Mendelsohn; Lord Purvis of Tweed; Baroness Rawlings; Lord Reid of Cardowan; Baroness Smith of Newnham. Evidence Session No. 10 Virtual Proceedings Questions 85 - 91 Witnesses I: Lord Houghton of Richmond GCB CBE DL; Lord Mark Sedwill KCMG FRGS, former Cabinet Secretary and former National Security Adviser. USE OF THE TRANSCRIPT 1. This is a corrected transcript of evidence taken in public and webcast on www.parliamentlive.tv. 1 Examination of witnesses Lord Houghton of Richmond and Lord Sedwill. Q85 The Chair: This is our second session today on the UK and Afghanistan. I welcome Lord Houghton of Richmond, the former Chief of the Defence Staff, and Lord Sedwill, former Cabinet Secretary, former National Security Adviser, former ambassador to Afghanistan and former NATO senior civilian representative in Afghanistan. Lord Sedwill has the advantage of chairing the Atlantic Future Forum right now. I believe it started its sessions yesterday, and it is being held aboard the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. I had the opportunity to see it from land a year ago when I was in Portsmouth, and all I can say is that when they say it is big, it is big. I thank him for taking time out from that to join us. At this stage, I always make the point that the session we are having is broadcast, transcribed and on the record.
    [Show full text]
  • The Foreign Affairs Select Committee and UK Foreign Policy Written by Tom Pettinger
    The Foreign Affairs Select Committee and UK Foreign Policy Written by Tom Pettinger This PDF is auto-generated for reference only. As such, it may contain some conversion errors and/or missing information. For all formal use please refer to the official version on the website, as linked below. The Foreign Affairs Select Committee and UK Foreign Policy https://www.e-ir.info/2012/03/11/the-foreign-affairs-select-committee-and-uk-foreign-policy/ TOM PETTINGER, MAR 11 2012 Has the Foreign Affairs Select Committee made a difference to UK Foreign Policy? Because the executive has held, and still holds, royal prerogative for foreign affairs matters, Parliament has been “unusually limited”[1] in its influence over the area.[2] Scrutiny of foreign policy is unique because unlike in other areas of governance “Parliament is in no sense a regular participant in the process, either by right or custom,”[3] and because there is so little legislation in comparison with other policy areas.[4] Before 1979, an amalgamation of committees existed under different departments, examining specific foreign affairs issues with no oversight of the whole of foreign policy. The establishment of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (FAC) in 1979 brought an increase in Parliamentary influence in the area, by “[creating] a committee devoted primarily, indeed exclusively, to foreign affairs,”[5] and the Committee was given the role of scrutinising “administration and policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).”[6] An in-depth study by The Constitution Unit, however, found that the FAC provided the least substantive recommendations compared with other committees,[7] implying the Committee’s scrutiny role is somewhat hindered – possibly because the main parties’ front benches, to maintain one national voice on international affairs, withhold usual party politicking.
    [Show full text]
  • British Military Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons
    Preserving the character of the nation: British military attitudes to nuclear weapons Tim Street June 2015 Introduction study by considering these issues within the current domestic and international political context, particularly the impact of deep public What are the views of the British military on spending cuts and the crisis in Ukraine. This is nuclear weapons today? How can we answer this done in order to better understand the pressures question given both the different actors and the British armed forces are currently under and institutions and the level of secrecy surrounding the effect this has on the nuclear weapons this issue? Moreover, why should those debate, particularly given the concerns raised by supportive of non-proliferation and disarmament, former and serving military personnel regarding or anyone else- especially given the political the government’s approach to defence and the nature of these weapons- care what the military strategy underpinning it in recent years. For thinks? As a study published by the Nuclear example, the determination of the government to Education Trust (NET) and Nuclear Information build four new nuclear-armed submarines in order Service (NIS) this week entitled British Military to maintain continuous-at-sea-deterrence (CASD), Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament whereby a submarine is perpetually on deterrent states ‘The armed forces have a unique patrol, ‘threatens to be at the expense of further relationship with and experience of the country’s reduction in conventional forces’
    [Show full text]
  • Core-Periphery Relations in the European Union
    Is a core-periphery cleavage tearing the European Union apart? This timely book critically examines the transformation of political conflict in Europe in the wake of the Eurocrisis. José Magone, Brigid Laffan and Christian Schweiger have assembled a leading group of theoretical and empirical scholars to apply the core-periphery lens on the Eurocrisis. The collection provides a compelling explanation for the intensity of conflict, coalitional patterns, and declining policy effectiveness in the contemporary European Union. It shows how the Eurocrisis has exacerbated – rather than created – old core-periphery tensions, and how the EU institutions’ inability to diffuse these tensions is hastening Europe’s geopolitical decline. This path-breaking study will change our understanding of European governance. It is also a wake-up call for Europe’s leaders. Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA This page intentionally left blank Core-periphery Relations in the European Union Successive enlargements to the European Union membership have transformed it into an economically, politically and culturally heterogeneous body with distinct vulnerabilities in its multi-level governance. This book analyses core–periphery relations to highlight the growing cleavage, and potential conflict, between the core and peripheral member states of the Union in the face of the devastating consequences of the Eurozone crisis. Taking a comparative and theoretical approach and using a variety of case studies, it examines how the crisis has both exacerbated tensions in centre–periphery rela- tions within and outside the Eurozone and how the European Union’s economic and political status is declining globally. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of European Union studies, European integration, political economy, public policy and comparative politics.
    [Show full text]
  • 2017-18 Annual Review
    Historic Royal Places – Spines Format A4 Portrait Spine Width 35mm Spine Height 297mm HRP Text 20pt (Tracked at +40) Palace Text 30pt (Tracked at -10) Icon 20mm Wide (0.5pt/0.25pt) Annual Review 2017/18 2 Contents 06 Welcome to another chapter in our story 07 Our work is guided by four principles 08 Chairman and Chief Executive: Introduction and reflection 10 Guardianship 16 Showmanship 24 Discovery 32 A Royal Year 36 Independence 42 Money matters 43 Visitor trends 44 Summarised financial statements 46 Trustees and Directors 48 Supporters 50 Acknowledgments Clockwise from top left: The White Tower, Tower of London; the West Front, Hampton Court Palace; the East Front, Kensington Palace; the South Front, Hillsborough Castle; Kew Palace; Banqueting House. 4 • It has been a record-breaking 12 months with more than Guardianship: visits to our sites, membership topping 101,000 Welcome to 4.7 million Our work is We exist for tomorrow, not just for yesterday. Our job is to give and our commercial teams exceeding their targets. another guided by four these palaces a future as valuable as their past. We know how • It was our busiest ever year at Kensington Palace as visitors precious they and their contents are, and we aim to conserve chapter in flocked to see our exhibitions of Princess Diana’s dresses and principles them to the standard they deserve: the best. 'Enlightened Princesses', and a new display of diamond and our story emerald jewellery. At Hampton Court, we came close to Discovery: reaching a million visitors for the first time.
    [Show full text]
  • The Crossed Quills the Magazine of the Artillery Clerks’ Association
    The Crossed Quills The Magazine of the Artillery Clerks’ Association Edition 20 December 2016 The Royal Artillery Association Forecast of Events 2017 17 February Royal Artillery Gold Cup Sandown Park TBC RAA NEC Meeting Larkhill 29 April (TBC) Gunner Sunday RHC* Royal Hospital Chelsea 19 - 22 May RA Assembly* Blackpool 20 May NEC Meeting Blackpool 24 June Armed Forces Day Local & National Events 1 July RA Service of Remembrance* NMA, Alrewas, Staffordshire 9 August RAA Grand Draw Larkhill 7 - 8 October RAA Folkestone Assembly* Folkestone 7 October RAA NEC Meeting Folkestone 9 November Field of Remembrance Westminster Abbey 12 November RA Ceremony of Remembrance Hyde Park Corner 3 December St Barbara’s Day Service and Lunch* Larkhill Events marked * will attract transport subsidy for branches travelling by mini bus or coach Foreword by Association President - Lt Gen Richard Nugee CBE It is with the home the full effect of that great war, and the relative greatest pleasure peace we have lived through in contrast. and honour to have been That peace was no more evident than for all of us who asked by General served in Germany in the Cold War and beyond, and Freddie and Joe it was with some sadness that we closed the British Falzon to become Kiel Yacht Club at the end of August, after 71 years of your Honorary great sailing amongst the Danish Islands, with all their President, and I attractions (particularly as a subaltern!), where the am delighted that Gunners played a very large part. I will have the chance to meet I thought I might give a brief view from my current role many of you, and affirm friendships long since made.
    [Show full text]
  • House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs, and International Development Committees
    House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs, and International Development Committees Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2011): UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2009, Quarterly Reports for 2010, licensing policy and review of export control legislation First Joint Report of Session 2010–11 Fourth Report from the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee of Session 2010–11 Second Report from the Defence Committee of Session 2010–11 Fifth Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee of Session 2010–11 Sixth Report from the International Development Committee of Session 2010–11 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 22 March 2011 HC 686 Published on 5 April 2011 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £17.50 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
    [Show full text]
  • Parliamentary Debates House of Commons Official Report General Committees
    PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT GENERAL COMMITTEES Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill ARMED FORCES BILL Fourth Sitting Thursday 17 February 2011 CONTENTS New clauses considered. Committee adjourned at eighteen minutes to Twelve o’clock. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON – THE STATIONERY OFFICE LIMITED £5·00 PBC (Bill 122) 2010 - 2011 Members who wish to have copies of the Official Report of Proceedings in General Committees sent to them are requested to give notice to that effect at the Vote Office. No proofs can be supplied. Corrigenda slips may be published with Bound Volume editions. Corrigenda that Members suggest should be clearly marked in a copy of the report—not telephoned—and must be received in the Editor’s Room, House of Commons, not later than Monday 21 February 2011 STRICT ADHERENCE TO THIS ARRANGEMENT WILL GREATLY FACILITATE THE PROMPT PUBLICATION OF THE BOUND VOLUMES OF PROCEEDINGS IN GENERAL COMMITTEES © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2011 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Parliamentary Click-Use Licence, available online through the Office of Public Sector Information website at www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/ Enquiries to the Office of Public Sector Information, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; e-mail: [email protected] 87 Select Committee on the17 FEBRUARY 2011 Armed Forces Bill 88 The Committee consisted of the following Members: Chair: MR JAMES ARBUTHNOT † Cunningham, Alex (Stockton North) (Lab) † Osborne, Sandra (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock)
    [Show full text]
  • CBIS Annual Report
    2019 CBIS Annual Report The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London June 2020 © Imperial College London 2016 1 Centre for Blast Injury Studies Annual Report The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London www.imperial.ac.uk/blast-injury London, June 2020 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine © Imperial College London 2020 Contents Introduction from Centre Director .............................................................................................................. 1 The Centre for Blast Injury Studies and the Military ................................................................................... 3 Impact .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Links to civilian blast injury.......................................................................................................................... 8 Events ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Media Activity............................................................................................................................................ 12 Outreach and Engagement........................................................................................................................ 14 Governance and Staffing ..........................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • UK Operations in Iraq
    House of Commons Defence Committee UK Operations in Iraq Thirteenth Report of Session 2005–06 Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 19 July 2006 HC 1241 Published on 10 August 2006 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £13.50 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 Rt Hon James Arbuthnot MP (Conservative, North East Hampshire) (Chairman) Mr David S Borrow MP (Labour, South Ribble) Mr David Crausby MP (Labour, Bolton North East) Linda Gilroy MP (Labour, Plymouth Sutton) Mr David Hamilton MP (Labour, Midlothian) Mr Mike Hancock MP (Liberal Democrat, Portsmouth South) Mr Dai Havard MP (Labour, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) Mr Adam Holloway MP (Conservative, Gravesham) Mr Brian Jenkins MP (Labour, Tamworth) Mr Kevan Jones MP (Labour, Durham North) Robert Key MP (Conservative, Salisbury) Mr Mark Lancaster MP (Conservative, North East Milton Keynes) Willie Rennie MP (Liberal Democrat, Dunfermline and West Fife) John Smith MP (Labour, Vale of Glamorgan) The following Members were also Members of the Committee during the Parliament. Mr Colin Breed MP (Liberal Democrat, South East Cornwall) Derek Conway MP (Conservative, Old Bexley and Sidcup) Mr Desmond Swayne MP (Conservative, New Forest West) 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.
    [Show full text]
  • Oversight and Guidance: Parliaments and Security Sector Governance
    GENEVA CENTRE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF ARMED FORCES (DCAF) NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY (NATO PA) Oversight and Guidance: Parliaments and Security Sector Governance Editors Eden Cole, Philipp Fluri & Simon Lunn Oversight and Guidance: Parliaments and Security Sector Governance Editors Eden Cole, Philipp Fluri & Simon Lunn Cover photo: NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Rose Roth Seminar, Bishkek, 13-15 November 2013, available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/natopa/10928033974/in/album- 72157637807968726/ The publication of this book has been funded by the Directorate for Security Policy (SIPOL) – Swiss Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sports. Published by DCAF Geneva 2015 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 5 Preface David Hobbs, Secretary General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly 6 Introduction The Editors 9 Chapter One: Democratic Oversight and the Changing Security Context Simon Lunn, Associate Senior Fellow, DCAF 12 Chapter Two: Democratic Oversight and Governance of Defence and Security Institutions Eden Cole, Head, NIS Programmes, DCAF 42 Chapter Three: The Role of Parliaments Hans Born, Deputy Head, Research Division, DCAF 64 Chapter Four: The Role of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly David Hobbs, Secretary General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly Ruxandra Popa, Deputy Secretary General, NATO Parliamentary Assembly 85 Annex 1: The Powers, Procedures and Practices of Parliamentary Oversight of Defence in NATO Member States 111 Part A: Defence Committee Structure and Organisation 111 Part B: Defence Committee Procedures and Practices 117 3 Part C: Powers of the Defence Committee 123 Part D: Budget Control of Defence Issues 126 Part E: Peace Missions 127 Part F: Defence Procurement 129 Part G: Security Policy Planning and Documents 131 Part H: Armed Forces Personnel 132 Part I: Challenges and Strengths 133 Annex 2: About NATO Parliamentary Assembly 137 Annex 3: About DCAF 145 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Editors would like to thank Lydia Amberg and Karina Priajina Khudaverdyan for their editorial and research assistance.
    [Show full text]
  • Fact Sheet Msps Mps and Meps: Session 4 11 May 2012 Msps: Current Series
    The Scottish Parliament and Scottish Parliament I nfor mation C entre l ogo Scottish Parliament Fact sheet MSPs MPs and MEPs: Session 4 11 May 2012 MSPs: Current Series This Fact Sheet provides a list of current Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs), Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) arranged alphabetically by the constituency or region that they represent. Abbreviations used: Scottish Parliament and European Parliament Con Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party Green Scottish Green Party Ind Independent Lab Scottish Labour Party LD Scottish Liberal Democrats NPA No Party Affiliation SNP Scottish National Party UK Parliament Con Conservative and Unionist Party Co-op Co-operative Party Lab Labour Party LD Liberal Democrats NPA No Party Affiliation SNP Scottish National Party Scottish Parliament and Westminster constituencies do not cover the same areas, although the names of the constituencies may be the same or similar. At the May 2005 general election, the number of Westminster constituencies was reduced from 72 to 59, which led to changes in constituency boundaries. Details of these changes can be found on the Boundary Commission’s website at www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/westminster Scottish Parliament Constituencies Constituency MSP Party Aberdeen Central Kevin Stewart SNP Aberdeen Donside Brian Adam SNP Aberdeen South and North Maureen Watt SNP Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Alex Salmond SNP Aberdeenshire West Dennis Robertson SNP Airdrie and Shotts Alex Neil SNP Almond Valley Angela
    [Show full text]