He and his vice-chair, Christine Crawley, have held public hearings with witnesses, including former defence ministers and technology experts.
In March, 1966 he became minister of technology.
During his 50-year parliamentary career, Benn served as minister for technology, industry and energy under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
For an article about management practices I interviewed Tony Benn, then minister of technology, on the "brain drain".
Only in 1967, when the plane was rolled out in the south of France, did the then minister of technology, Tony Benn, change it back.
After entering the cabinet as minister of technology (1966-70), he backed Concorde, not least because it would be partly built in his Bristol constituency.
"We are well on track to meet our pledge to connect every school to the internet by 2002," said Michael Wills, minister for technology and learning.
Ministerial office, in what were essentially technocratic positions beyond the frontline of partisan politics (postmaster-general and minister of technology) occupied the rest of the decade.
And, come the Labour whisker-thin majority of 1964, a very effective and imaginative king he turned out to be - first, as Postmaster-General, and subsequently, after the substantial majority for the Labour government in 1966, as Minister of Technology.
Just a month earlier, India's minister overseeing technology and education, Kapil Sibal, suggested that sites should screen content before it is uploaded, a proposal that he and other officials later backed away from.
In 1967, he became minister of technology with responsibility for the development of Concorde.
