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Debate between Caroline Nokes and Liam Fox
Monday 10th October 2011
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Dr Fox
The Department will be fully audited on its equipment programme, and let me tell the hon. Gentleman one of the big differences we have made. The Defence Board is the primary decision-making body of the MOD, and we inherited a board that had 24 members and was not chaired by the Secretary of State, which in my view was an utterly absurd position to be in. We now have a Defence Board of nine, chaired by the Secretary of State and with far more vertical management structures, accountability and responsibility.
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North) (Con)
3. What steps he is taking to promote defence exports.