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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.
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The ISC oversees the policies, expenditure, administration and operations of MI5, MI6, GCHQ, Defence Intelligence, the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the National Security Secretariat (NSS) and Homeland Security Group.
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That Stuart Anderson, Sarah Atherton, Wayne David, Richard Drax, Mr Tanmmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Mr Mark Francois, Martin Docherty-Hughes, Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck, Gavin Robinson and John Spellar be members of the Defence Committee.
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That Wayne David and Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi be discharged from the Defence Committee and Mr Kevan Jones and Derek Twigg be added
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Defence That Martin Docherty-Hughes be discharged from the Defence Committee and Dave Doogan be added.
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That Andrew Bowie be discharged from the Defence Committee and Sarah Atherton be added.
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That Dave Doogan be discharged from the Defence Committee and Martin Docherty-Hughes be added.
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That Jesse Norman be added to the Defence Committee
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