§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Bach)My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Defence, Mr Adam Ingram, has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
I can announce that Command Paper Cm 6338, which sets out the Government's response to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee report on defence procurement, will be published today.
It is the Government's opinion that the House of Commons Defence Select Committee report on defence procurement, published in July, was a flawed document. Our response rejects many of the report's findings. It is unusual for the MoD to reject major elements of a report written by the Defence Select Committee. Regrettably, however, we have taken this action because the report made claims that were not and could not be substantiated and was selective in the way it used evidence.