The Scotland Act also specifies a range of "reserved matters" on which the Scottish Parliament cannot pass legislation, including foreign policy, defence and national security.
The Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey and a supporting cast of senior officers appear before the Defence Committee who are investigating the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the National Security Strategy.
And the Defence Committee will speak to, among others, Air Chief Marshall Sir Brian Burridge and Admiral Sir Jonathon Band about the government's Defence Review and the National Security Council.
It states that while our obligation to protect the British people and the British national interest is fixed and unwavering, the nature of the threats and the risks we face have - in recent decades - changed beyond recognition and confound all the old assumptions about national defence and international security.
Restrictions will remain on many doctors, members of the military and athletes, which Cuba attributes to reasons of national defence and security.
One idea is that France should set up a National Defence and Security Council, loosely modelled on the American version, to co-ordinate domestic and foreign security.
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The balance between revising national defence and security strategy ( or lack thereof) and budget constraints will be picked over for a long time once the SDSR is published, which may be at the end of October.
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"They also discussed further defence exchanges and visits, " India's National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters.
And though DfID will survive as a separate department, it will be bound more closely to the FCO and the Ministry of Defence by a proposed national security council.
Prince Bandar, who is the son of the Saudi defence minister, served for 20 years as US ambassador and is now head of the country's national security council.
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