<rss version="0.92"><channel><title>Topical Issues: Defence expenditure</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk</link><description>Recent background material on topical issues - including Select Committee Reports, POST papers, Lords Papers and Early Day Motions</description><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><language>en</language><item><title>DEFENCE BUSINESS SERVICES</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2178</link><description>That this House expresses profound concern at the proposed appointment of a commercial management company to partner Defence Business Services; believes that allowing a private sector ...</description><pubDate>2011-09-14T01:00:00.0000000+01:00</pubDate><category>Early Day Motion</category></item><item><title>The performance of the Ministry of Defence 2009-10.</title><link>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmdfence/1495/1495.pdf</link><description>Government response. Defence Select Committee; Ministry of Defence report [Commons]</description><pubDate>2011-09-13T00:00:00.0000000+01:00</pubDate><category>Select Committee Report</category></item><item><title>TRIDENT SUBMARINE PROPOSALS</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/1477</link><description>That this House strongly condemns the Government plans to order the steel for the first new Trident replacement submarine before any formal decision is made on whether to go ahead with ...</description><pubDate>2011-02-17T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Early Day Motion</category></item><item><title>The major projects report 2010.</title><link>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmpubacc/687/687.pdf</link><description>Public Accounts Committee report [Commons]</description><pubDate>2011-02-15T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Select Committee Report</category></item><item><title>Managing the defence budget.</title><link>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmpubacc/503/50302.htm</link><description>Public Accounts Committee report [Commons]</description><pubDate>2010-12-08T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Select Committee Report</category></item><item><title>TRIDENT REPLACEMENT</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/909</link><description>That this House welcomes the announcement of a reduction in operational warheads from 160 to 120 in the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) and a delay in the Main Gate decision ...</description><pubDate>2010-10-27T01:00:00.0000000+01:00</pubDate><category>Early Day Motion</category></item><item><title>TRIDENT AND THE STRATEGIC DEFENCE AND SECURITY REVIEW</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/110</link><description>That this House welcomes the Government's intention to hold a strategic defence and security review; notes with concern the stated intention to conduct it without giving due consideration ...</description><pubDate>2010-05-26T01:00:00.0000000+01:00</pubDate><category>Early Day Motion</category></item><item><title>CONDUCT OF LORD MANDELSON</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2009-10/757</link><description>That this House notes that the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, right hon. Lord Mandelson, told the North West Evening Mail newspaper on 23 January 2010 of the ...</description><pubDate>2010-02-01T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Early Day Motion</category></item><item><title>MoD winter supplementary estimate 2009-10.</title><link>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmdfence/150/15002.htm</link><description>Defence Select Committee report [Commons]</description><pubDate>2009-12-08T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Select Committee Report</category></item><item><title>TRIDENT REPLACEMENT</title><link>http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2009-10/380</link><description>That this House notes that the UK is facing its biggest economic crisis since the Second World War and can ill afford to spend in excess of &amp;#163;76 billion on replacing the Trident nuclear ...</description><pubDate>2009-12-07T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Early Day Motion</category></item><item><title>Ministry of Defence Main Estimates 2009-10.</title><link>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmdfence/986/98602.htm</link><description>Government response. Ministry of Defence; Defence Select Committee report [Commons]</description><pubDate>2009-10-27T00:00:00.0000000-00:00</pubDate><category>Select Committee Report</category></item><item><title>Ministry of Defence Main Estimates 2009-10.</title><link>http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmdfence/773/77302.htm</link><description>Defence Select Committee report [Commons]</description><pubDate>2009-06-30T00:00:00.0000000+01:00</pubDate><category>Select Committee Report</category></item></channel></rss>
