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Section C - Part 1

Departmental Select Committees: their work and reports

The following is a list of the select committees which are set up to examine the work of Government Departments, and which now constitute the main investigatory system by which the House oversees the exercise of Government responsibilities and the development of public policy and expenditure.

The listing of each departmental committee includes its membership as at Prorogation on 8th November 2006, the reports issued during the 2005-06 session and of Government observations received.

Communities and Local Government

Clerk: Mrs Mulley & Ms Littleboy

Members (11)

Nominated: 27 June 2006

Dr Phyllis Starkey (Lab) (Chairman)

Sir Paul Beresford (Con)	Mr Clive Betts (Lab)	Lyn Brown (Lab)
John Cummings (Lab)	Mr Greg Hands (Con)	Mr Martin Horwood (LD)
Anne Main (Con)	Mr Bill Olner (Lab)	Dr John Pugh (LD)
Emily Thornberry (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	ODPM Annual Report and Accounts 2005	HC 559	HC1072
2	Re-licensing	HC 606	Cm 6788
3	Affordability and the Supply of Housing	HC 703	Cm 6912
4	Fire and Rescue Service	HC 872	Cm 6919
5	Planning Gain Supplement	HC 1024

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Government Response to Committee's 4th report of 2004- 05: ODPM Annual Report and Accounts, HC 58	HC 407
2sp	Government Response to the Committee's 11th report of 2004-05: Role and Effectiveness of the Local Government Ombudsmen for England, HC 458	HC 605
3sp	Government response to Committee's 7th report of 2004-05: Role and Effectiveness of the Standards Board for England, HC 60	HC 988
4sp	Government response to Committee's 1st report of 2005-06: ODPM Annual Report and Accounts, HC 559	HC 1072

Constitutional Affairs

Clerks: Mr Phillips & Dr Gearson

Members (11)

Nominated: 11 July 2005

Rt Hon Alan Beith (LD) (Chairman)

James Brokenshire (Con)	David Howarth (LD)	Mrs Siân C. James (Lab)
Mr Piara S Khabra (Lab)	Jessica Morden (Lab)	Julie Morgan (Lab)
Mr Andrew Tyrie (Con)	Rt Hon Keith Vaz (Lab)	Dr AlanWhitehead (Lab)
Jeremy Wright (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	The courts: small claims	HC 519	Cm 6754
2	The Office of the Judge Advocate General	HC 731
3	Compensation Culture	HC 754	Cm 6784
4	Legal Services Commission: removal of Specialist Support Services	HC 919	HC 1029
5	Compensation culture: NHS Redress Bill	HC 1009	Cm 6784
6	Family Justice: the operation of the family courts revisited	HC 1086
7	Freedom of Information - one year on	HC 991	Cm 6937
8	Reform of the coroners' system and death certification	HC 902	Cm 6943

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Legal Services Commission's response to the Committee's 4th report 2005-06: Removal of Specialist Support Services, HC 919	HC 1029

Culture, Media and Sport

Clerks: Kenneth Fox

Members (11)

Nominated: 13 July 2005

Mr John Whittingdale (Con)

Janet Anderson (Lab)	Philip Davies (Con)	Mr Nigel Evans (Con)
Paul Farrelly (Lab)	Mr Mike Hall (Lab)	Alan Keen (Lab)
Rosemary McKenna (Lab)	Adam Price (PC)	Mr Adrian Sanders (Lib)
Helen Southworth (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Broadcasting Rights for Cricket: Ashes to Ashes - the death knell for live Test match cricket on free-to-air TV?	HC 720	Cm 6772
2	Analogue Switch-off: A signal change in television	HC 650	Cm 6580
3	Protecting and Preserving our Heritage	HC 912	Cm 6947
4	Women's Football	HC 1357	HC 1646

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Replies to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2004-05, Maritime Heritage and Historic Ships, HC 296	HC 358
2sp	Replies to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, Women's Football, HC 1357	HC 1646

Defence

Clerks: Ms Helme & Mr Cooke

Members (14)

Nominated: 11 July 2005

Rt Hon James Arbuthnot (Con) (Chairman)

Mr David S.Borrow (Lab)	Mr David Crausby (Lab)	Linday Gilroy (Lab/Co-op)
Mr David Hamilton (Lab)	Mr Mike Hancock CBE (LD)	Mr Dai Havard (Lab)
Mr Adam Holloway (Con)	Mr Brian Jenkins (Lab)	Mr Kevan Jones (Lab)
Robert Key (Con)	Mr Mark Lancaster (Con)	Willie Rennie (LD)
John Smith (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Armed Forces Bill	HC 747	HC 1021
2	Future Carrier and Joint Combat Aircraft Programmes	HC 554	HC 926
3	Delivering Front Line Capability to the RAF	HC 557	HC 1000
4	Costs of peace-keeping in Iraq and Afghanistan: Spring Supplementary Estimate 2005-06	HC 980	HC 1136
5	The UK deployment to Afghanistan	HC 558	HC 1211
6	Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05	HC 822	HC 1293
7	The Defence Industrial Strategy (written evidence published separately)	HC 824; HC 1137	HC 1488
8	The Future of the UK's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent (written evidence published separately)	HC 986; HC 835	HC 1558
9	Ministry of Defence Main Estimates 2006-07	HC 1366	HC 1601
10	The Work of the Met Office	HC 823	HC 1602
11	Educating Service Children	HC 1054
12	(Joint Report) Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny	HC 873	Cm 6954
13	UK Operations in Iraq	HC 1241
14	Armed Forces Bill: proposal for a Service Complaints Commissioner	HC 1711

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2004-05 Iraq: An Initial Assessment of Post Conflict Operations: HC 65-I	HC 436
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, Future Carrier and Joint Combat Aircraft Programmes: HC 554	HC 926
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06, Delivering Front Line Capability to RAF: HC 557	HC 1000
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06, Armed Forces Bill, HC 747	HC 1021
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, Costs of peace-keeping in Iraq and Afghanistan: Spring Supplementary Estimate 2005-06: HC 980	HC 1136
6 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2005-06, The UK deployment to Afghanistan: HC 558	HC 1211
7 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2005-06, Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts 2004-05: HC 822	HC 1293
8 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06, The Defence Industrial Strategy: HC 824; HC 1137	HC 1488
9 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report 2005-06, The Future of the UK's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: the Strategic Context: HC 986; HC 835	HC 1558
10 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of 2005-06, Ministry of Defence Main Estimates 2006-07, HC 1366	HC 1601
11 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2005-06, The work of the Met Office, HC 823	HC 1602
12 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Thirteenth Report of Session 2005-06, UK Operations in Iraq, HC 1241	HC 1603

Education and Skills

Clerks: Mr David Lloyd

Members (11)

Nominated: 13 July 2005

Mr Barry Sheerman (Lab) (Chairman)

Douglas Carswell (Con)	Jeff Ennis (Lab)	Fiona Mactaggart (Lab)
Mr David Chaytor (Lab)	Paul Holmes (Lib)	Gordon Marsden (Lab)
Mrs Nadine Dorries (Con)	Helen Jones (Lab)	Stephen Williams (Lib)
Mr Rob Wilson (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	The Schools White Paper: Higher Standards, Better Schools For All	HC 633	Cm 6747
2	Public Expenditure on Education and Skills	HC 479	HC 1132
3	Special Educational Needs	HC 478	Cm 6940
4	Further Education	HC 649	HC 1712
5	Public Expenditure	HC 1201

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report (Education Outside the Classroom) Sixth Report (National Skills Strategy: 14-19 Education) and Eighth Report (Teaching Children to Read) of Session 2004-05, HC 120; HC 121; HC37	HC 406
2sp	Government's Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2004-05, UK e-University: HC 205	HC 489
3sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2004-05 Secondary Education: HC 86	HC 725
4sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, Public Expenditure on Education and Skills: HC 479	HC 1132
5sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, Further Education, HC 649	HC 1712

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee

Clerks: Chris Stanton

Members (14)

Nominated: July 2005

Rt Hon Michael Jack MP (Con) (Chairman)

Mr Geoffrey Cox (Con)	Mr David Drew (Lab)	James Duddridge (Con)
Patrick Hall (Lab)	Lynne Jones (Lab)	Daniel Kawczynski (Con)
David Lepper (Lab)	Mrs Madeleine Moon (Lab)	Mr Jamie Reed (Lab)
Mr Dan Rogerson (Lib)	Sir Peter Soulsby (Lab)	David Taylor (Lab)
Mr Roger Williams (Lib)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Government Response to the Committee's Report: The future for UK fishing, HC122	HC 532
2	Reform of the EU Sugar Regime	HC 585	HC 927
3	The Animal Welfare Bill	HC 683
4	The Departmental Annual Report 2005	HC 693	HC 966
5	Rural Payments Agency: interim report	HC 840
6	Bovine TB: badger culling	HC 905
7	The Environment Agency	HC 780	HC 1519
8	Climate change: the role of bioenergy	HC 965

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report 2004-05: Food Information, HC 469	HC 437
2sp	Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report 2004-05: Climate Change, HC130	HC 533
3sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report 2004-05: Progress on the use of pesticides: the Voluntary Initiative, HC 258	HC 534
4sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report 2005-06: Reform of the EU Sugar Regime, HC 585	HC 927
5sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report 2005-06: The Departmental Annual Report 2005, HC 693	HC 966
6sp	Government and Environment Agency Responses to the Committee's Seventh Report: The Environment Agency, HC 780	HC 1519

Foreign Affairs Committee

Clerks: Steve Priestley

Members (14)

Nominated: 13 July 2005

Mike Gapes (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Fabian Hamilton (Lab)	Rt Hon. David Heathcoat-Amory (Con)
Mr John Horam (Con)	Mr Eric Illsley (Lab)	Mr Paul Keetch (Lib)
Andrew Mackinlay (Lab)	Mr John Maples (Con)	Sandra Osborne (Lab)
Mr Greg Pope (Lab)	Mr Ken Purchase (Lab)	Rt Hon Sir John Stanley (Con)
Ms Gisela Stuart (Lab)	Richard Younger-Ross (Lib)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Human Rights Annual Report 2005	HC 574	Cm 6774
2	Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2004-05	HC 522	Cm 6791
3	Public Diplomacy	HC 903	Cm 6840
4	Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	HC 573	Cm 6905
5	1st Joint, Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny	HC 873	Cm 6954
6	Developments in the European Union	HC 768	Cm 6914
7	East Asia	HC 860	Cm 6944
8	Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2005-06	HC 1371

Health

Clerks: Dr Harrison & Mr Wilson

Members (11)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Rt Hon Kevin Barron (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr David Amess (Con)	Charlotte Atkins (Lab)	Mr Ronnie Campbell (Lab)
Jim Dowd (Lab)	Sandra Gidley (LD)	Anne Milton (Con)
Dr Doug Naysmith (Lab/Co op)	Mike Penning (Con)	Dr Howard Stoate (Lab)
Dr Richard Taylor (Ind)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Smoking in Public Places	HC 485	Cm 6769
2	Changes to Primary Care Trusts	HC 646	Cm 6760
3	NHS Charges	HC 815	Cm 6922
4	Independent Sector Treatment Centres	HC 934	Cm 6930
5	Workforce Planning	HC 1077
6	NHS Deficits	HC 1204

Home Affairs

Clerks: Dr James & Mr Etherton

Members (14)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Rt Hon John Denham (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Richard Benyon (Con)	Mr Jeremy Browne (LD)	Ms Karen Buck (Lab)
Mr James Clappison (Con)	Mrs Ann Cryer (Lab)	Mrs Janet Dean (Lab)
Margaret Moran (Lab)	Gwyn Prosser (Lab)	Bob Russell (LD)
Martin Salter (Lab)	Mr Richard Spring (Con)	Mr Gary Streeter (Con)
Mr David Winnick (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Joint, Home Affairs and Work and Pensions Committee: Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill	HC 540	Cm 6755
2	Draft Sentencing Guideline: Robbery	HC 947
3	Draft Sentencing Guidelines: Overarching Principles: Domestic Violence and Breach of a Protective Order	HC 1231
4	Terrorism Detention Powers	HC 910	Cm 6906
5	Immigration Control	HC 775	Cm 6910
6	Draft Sentencing Guidelines: Sexual Offences Act 2003	HC 1582

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Memorandum from the Home Office: Progress in Implementing accepted Committee recommendations 2001-05, (HC 280)	HC 1007

International Development

Clerks: Mr Doherty & Dr Weston

Members (11)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce (LD) (Chairman)

John Barrett (LD)	Rt Hon John Battle (Lab)	Hugh Bayley (Lab)
John Bercow (Con)	Richard Burden (Lab)	Mr Quentin Davies (Con)
James Duddridge (Con)	Ann McKechin (Lab)	Joan Ruddock (Lab)
Mr Marsha Singh (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Delivering the goods: HIV/AIDS and the provision of anti-retrovirals	HC 708	HC 922
2	Darfur: The killing continues	HC 657	HC 1017
3	The WTO Hong Kong Ministerial and the Doha Development Agenda	HC 730	HC 1425
4	Private Sector Development	HC 921	HC 1629
5	1st Joint Report Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny	HC 873	Cm 6954
6	Conflict and Development: Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Reconstruction	HC 923
7	Humanitarian response to natural disasters	HC 1188

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06 Delivering the goods: HIV/AIDS and the provision of anti-retrovirals, HC 708	HC 922
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06 Darfur: The killing continues, HC 657	HC 1017
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06 The WTO Hong Kong Ministerial and the Doha Development Agenda, HC 730	HC 1425
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, Private Sector Development, HC 921	HC 1629

Northern Ireland Affairs

Clerks: Mr Rhys & Mr Farren

Members (13)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Sir Patrick Cormack (Con) (Chairman)

Mr David Anderson (Lab)	Rt. Hon John Battle (Lab)	Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP)
Rosie Cooper (Lab)	Mr Christopher Fraser (Con)	Mr John Grogan (Lab)
Mr Stephen Hepburn (Lab)	Lady Hermon (UUP)	Dr Alasdair McDonnell (SDL)
Mr Denis Murphy (Lab)	Stephen Pound (Lab)	Sammy Wilson (DUP)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Education in Northern Ireland	HC 726
2	The work of the Committee in 2005	HC 829
3	Organised Crime in Northern Ireland	HC 886	HC 1642

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2004-05 The work of the Committee in 2004, HC 262	HC 393
2 sp	Responses by the Government and the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2004-05 The Functions of the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, HC 344	HC 394
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2004-05 The Parades Commission and Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, HC 172	HC 395
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2004-05 The Challenge of Diversity: Hate Crime in Northern Ireland, HC 548	HC 396
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2004-05 Air Transport Services in Northern Ireland, HC 53	HC 529
6 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2004-05 Ways of Dealing with Northern Ireland's Past: Interim Report - Victims and Survivors, HC 303	HC 530
7 sp	Responses by the Government and the Northern Ireland Policing Board to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2004-05 The Functions of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, HC 108	HC 531
8 sp	Decision to Cease Stormont Prosecutions. Eighth Special Report of Session 2005-06	HC 814
9 sp	Organised Crime in Northern Ireland: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06	HC 1642

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

Clerks: Mrs Jessica Mulley and Ms Elizabeth Hunt

Members (11)

Nominated 13 July 2005

Dr Phyllis Starkey MP (Lab) (Chair)

Sir Paul Beresford MP (Con)	Clive Betts MP (Lab)	Lyn Brown MP (Lab)
John Cummings MP (Lab)	Greg Hands MP (Con)	Martin Horwood MP (Lib)
Anne Main MP (Con)	Bill Olner MP (Lab)	Dr John Pugh MP (Lib)
Alison Seabeck MP (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	ODPM Annual Report and Accounts 2005	HC 559	HC 1072
2	Re-licensing	HC 606
3	Affordability and the Supply of Housing	HC 703

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2004-05, on the ODPM Annual Report and Accounts 2004, HC 58	HC 407
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eleventh Report of Session 2004-05, The Role and Effectiveness of the Local Government Ombudsmen for England, HC 458	HC 605
3 sp	The Role and Effectiveness of the Standards Board for England: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, HC 60	HC 988
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06, ODPM Annual Report and Accounts 2005, HC 559	HC 1072

Scottish Affairs

Clerk: Mr Clark

Members (11)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Lab) (Chairman)

Danny Alexander (LD)	Ms Katy Clark (Lab)	Mr Ian Davidson (Lab/Co op)
Jim Devine (Lab)	Mr John MacDougall (Lab)	Mr Jim McGovern (Lab)
Mr Angus MacNeil (SNP)	David Mundell (Con)	Mr Charles Walker (Con)
Mr Ben Wallace (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Work of the Committee in 2005	HC 836
2	Meeting Scotland's Future Energy Needs: the Westfield Development Centre	HC 1010
3	Putting Citizens First: The Report from the Commission on Boundary Differences and Voting Systems	HC 924
4	The Sewel Convention: the Westminster perspective	HC 983	HC 1634
*	Spring Supplementary Estimate 2006: Explanatory Memorandum by the Scotland Office	HC 1106

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2004-05, Meeting Scotland's Future Energy Needs: HC 259	HC 579
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06 The Sewel Convention: the Westminster perspective, HC 983	HC 1634

Trade and Industry

Clerks: Mrs Flood & Mr Bates

Members (14)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Peter Luff (Con) (Chairman)

Dr Roger Berry (Lab)	Mr Brian Binley (Con)	Mr Peter Bone (Con)
Mr Michael Clapham (Lab)	Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas (Lab)	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Lab)
Mark Hunter (LD)	Miss Julie Kirkbride (Con)	Judy Mallaber (Lab)
Rob Marris (Lab)	Anne Moffat (Lab)	Mr Mike Weir (SNP)
Mr Anthony Wright (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Security of Gas Supply	HC 632	HC 833
2	Royal Mail after Liberalisation	HC 570	HC 960
3	Trade and Investment Opportunities with India	HC 881	HC 1671
4	New Nuclear? Examining the issues	HC 1122	HC 1663
5	Export Credits Guarantee Department's bribery rules	HC 1124	HC 1670
6	The Work of the NDA and UKAEA	HC 1028	HC 1699
7	1st Joint, Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny	HC 873	Cm 6954
8	Government's response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2005-06, Export Credits Guarantee. Department's bribery rules, HC 1124	HC 1670
9	Royal Mail Group	HC 1556-I

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2004-05, Debt and Disconnection, HC 297	HC 362
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Twelfth Report of Session 2004-05, Fuel Prices, HC 279	HC 363
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2004-05, Progress Towards the Knowledge Driven Economy, HC 432	HC 364
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, UK Employment Regulation, HC 90	HC 365
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2004-05, Implementation of ECGD's Business Principles, HC 374	HC 366
6 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixteenth Report of Session 2004-05, Jobs for the Girls, HC 300	HC 367
7 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifteenth Report of Session 2004-05, UK Aerospace Industry, HC 151	HC 368
8 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2004-05, Trade with South-East Asia, HC 368	HC 521
9 sp	Response to the Committee's Thirteenth Report of Session 2004-05, Ofcom's Strategic Review of Telecommunications: Ofcom, HC 407	HC 598
10 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06, Security of Gas Supply, HC 632	HC 833
11 sp	Responses to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, Royal Mail after Liberalisation, HC 570	HC 960
12 sp	Ofgem Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06, Security of Gas Supply, HC 632	HC 992
13 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourteenth Report of Session 2004-05, Coal Health Compensation Schemes, HC 375	HC 993
14 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, New Nuclear? Examining the issues, HC 1122	HC 1663
15 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06, Trade and Investment Opportunities with India, HC 881	HC 1671
16 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2005-06, The Work of the NDA and UKAEA, HC 1028	HC 1699

Transport

Clerks: Dr Patterson & Ms Toft

Members (11)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr David Clelland (Lab)	Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (DU)	Clive Efford (Lab)
Mrs Louise Ellman (Lab/Co op)	Mr Robert Goodwill (Con)	Mr John Leech (LD)
Mr Eric Martlew (Lab)	Mr Lee Scott (Con)	Graham Stringer (Lab)
Mr David Wilshire (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	UK Transport Security - preliminary report	HC 637	Cm 6736
2	Financial Protection for Air Travellers: Second Report Abandoning Effective Protection	HC 636	HC 996
3	Going for Gold: Transport for London's 2012 Olympic Games	HC 588	HC 1152
4	Departmental Annual Report 2005	HC 684	HC 1517
5	Future of the British Transport Police	HC 1070	HC 1639
6	How fair are the fares? Train fares and ticketing	HC 700	HC 1640
7	Parking Policy and Enforcement	HC 748	HC 1641
8	Piracy	HC 1026	HC 1690
9	The work of the Department for Transport's Agencies - Driver and Vehicle Operator Group and the Highways Agency	HC 907	HC 1615
10	Roads Policing and Technology: Getting the right balance	HC 975
11	Bus Services across the UK	HC 1317
12	Local Transport. Planning and Funding	HC 1120
13	The Work of the Civil Aviation Authority	HC 809
14	Passenger Rail Franchising	HC 1354

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2004-05, The Performance of the London Underground, HC 94	HC 431
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2004-05, The Departmental Annual Report 2004, HC 409	HC 432
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2004-05, Integrated Transport: the Future of Light Rail and Modern Trams in the United Kingdom, HC 378	HC 526
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2004-05, Search and Rescue, HC 322	HC 586
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2004-05, Rural Railways, HC 169	HC 587
6 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2004-05, Tonnage Tax, HC 299	HC 611
7 sp	Government and Civil Aviation Authority Responses to the Committee's Fifteenth Report of Session 2003-04, Financial Protection for Air Travellers, HC 806	HC 639
8 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2004-05, European Community Competence and Transport, HC 467	HC 976
9 sp	Government and Civil Aviation Authority Responses to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, Financial Protection for Air Travellers: Abandoning Effective Protection, HC 636	HC 996
10 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06, Going for Gold: Transport for London's 2012 Olympic Games, HC 588	HC 1152
11 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, Departmental Annual Report 2005, HC 684	HC 1517
12 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2005-06, Future of the British Transport Police, HC 1070	HC 1639
13 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2005-06, How fair are the fares? Train fares and ticketing, HC 700	HC 1640
14 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06, Parking Policy and Enforcement, HC 907	HC 1641
15 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2005-06, The Work of the Department for Transport's Agencies-Driver and Vehicle Operator Group and the Highways Agency,	HC 1615
16 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2005-06, Piracy, HC 1026	HC 1690

Treasury

Clerks: Mr Lee & Ms McLean

Members (14)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Rt Hon John McFall (Lab/Co op) (Chairman)

Mr Colin Breed (LD)	Jim Cousins (Lab)	Angela Eagle (Lab)
Mr Michael Fallon (Con)	Mr David Gauke (Con)	Ms Sally Keeble (Lab)
Mr Andy Love (Lab/Co op)	Kerry McCarthy (Lab)	Mr George Mudie (Lab)
Mr Brooks Newmark (Con)	John Thurso (LD)	Mr Mark Todd (Lab)
Peter Viggers (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England: appointment hearings	HC 525
2	The 2005 Pre-Budget Report	HC 739	HC 1013
3	The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England: appointment hearing for Sir John Gieve	HC 861
4	The 2006 Budget	HC 994	HC 1472
5	The design of the National Pension Savings Scheme and the role of financial services regulation	HC 1074	HC 1592
6	The administration of tax credits	HC 811
7	European financial services regulation	HC 778	HC 1593
8	Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee: appointment hearing for professor David Blanchflower	HC 1121
9	Globalisation: the role of the IMF	HC 875
10	Independence of Statistics	HC 1111	HC 1604
11	The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England: appointment hearings for Professor Tim Besley and Dr Andrew Sentance	HC 1595
12	Financial inclusion: credit, savings, advice and insurance	HC 848
13	Banking the unbanked": banking services, the Post Office Card Account, and financial inclusion	HC 1717

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2004-05, Cash Machine Charges, HC 191	HC 359
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2004-05, Excise Duty Fraud, HC 126	HC 360
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, The 2005 Pre-Budget Report, HC 861	HC 1013
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, The 2006 Budget, HC 994	HC 1472
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2005-06, The design of a National Pension Savings Scheme, HC 1074	HC 1592
6 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06, European financial services regulation, HC 778	HC 1593
7 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2005-06, Independence for statistics, HC 1111	HC 1604

Welsh Affairs

Clerk: Mr Davies

Members (11)

Nominated 13 July 2005

Dr Hywel Francis (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Stephen Crabb (Con)	David T. C. Davies (Con)	Nia Griffith (Lab)
Mrs Siân C. James (Lab)	Mr David Jones (Con)	Mr Martyn Jones (Lab)
Jessica Morden (Lab)	Albert Owen (Lab)	Hywel Williams (PC)
Mark Williams (LD)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Government White Paper: Better Governance for Wales	HC 551	HC 839
2	Proposed Restructuring of the Police Forces in Wales	HC 751	HC 1431
3	Energy in Wales	HC 876	HC 1656
4	Future of RAF St Athan	HC 1129	HC 1657
5	Current Restructuring of the Police Forces in Wales	HC 1418	HC 1695

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Responses to the Committee's Second and Third Reports of Session 2004-05, Manufacturing and Trade in Wales and Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Bill, HC 329; HC 234	HC 433
2 sp	Government Responses to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2004-05, Police Service, Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour in Wales, HC 46	HC 514
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06, Government White Paper: Better Governance for Wales, HC 551	HC 839
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, Proposed Restructuring of the Police Forces in Wales, HC 751	HC 1431
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06, Energy in Wales, HC 876	HC 1656
6 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06, Future of RAF St Athan , HC 1129	HC 1657
7 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2005-06, Current Restructuring of the police forces in Wales, HC 1418	HC 1695

Work and Pensions

Clerks: Mrs Davies and Mrs McBride

Members (11)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Mr Terry Rooney (Lab) (Chairman)

Miss Anne Begg (Lab)	Harry Cohen (Lab)	Mr Philip Dunne (Con)
Mrs Natascha Engel (Lab)	Michael Jabez Foster (Lab)	Justine Greening (Con)
Mrs Joan Humble (Lab)	Greg Mulholland (LD)	John Penrose (Con)
Jenny Willott (LD)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Joint, Home Affairs and Work and Pensions Committee: Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill	HC 540
2	The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus	HC 834	HC 1187
3	Incapacity Benefits and Pathways to Work	HC 616	Cm 6861
4	Pension Reform	HC 1068	Cm 6956
5	Power to incur expenditure under Section 82 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999: new Employment and Support Allowance IT System	HC 1648

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's 3rd and 4th Reports of Session 2004-05, Pension Credit and Delivery of Services to Ethnic Minority Clients:	HC 397
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's 2nd Report of Session 2005-06, The Efficiency Savings Programme in Jobcentre Plus:	HC 1187

Section C - Part 2

Subject Listing of Reports of Departmental Select Committees

The following basic subject guide to the reports of the Departmental Select Committees (excluding, therefore, the Public Accounts Committee) is in an abbreviated form. Special reports and Government Observations are not included. Full details are given in Section C1.

Subject	Select Committee	Paper Number
Afghanistan	Defence (5)	HC 558
Aircraft Carriers	Defence (2)	HC 554
Animal Welfare	Environment (3)	HC 683
Annual Reports	Environment (4)	HC 693
Armed Forces	Defence (1)	HC 747
Armed Forces	Defence (11)	HC 1054
Bank of England	Treasury (1)	HC 525
Bank of England	Treasury (3)	HC 861
Bank of England	Treasury (8)	HC 1121
Bank of England	Treasury (11)	HC 1595
Bank Services	Treasury (13)	HC 1717
Bovine Tuberculosis	Environment (6)	HC 905
Budget March 2006	Treasury (4)	HC 994
Carbon dioxide	Environmental Audit (9)	HC 981
Carbon dioxide	Environmental Audit (12)	HC 1718
Climate Change	Environment (8)	HC 965
Climate Change	Environmental Audit (6)	HC 584
Climate Change	Science and Technology (1)	HC 578
Common Sugar Regime	Environment (2)	HC 585
Compensation	Constitutional Affairs (3)	HC 754
Compensation	Constitutional Affairs (5)	HC 1009
Constitutional Affairs Select Committee on the Legal Services Commission	Constitutional Affairs (4)	HC 919
Coroners	Constitutional Affairs (8)	HC 902
Corporate Manslaughter	Home Affairs and Work and Pensions (1)	HC 540
Courts	Constitutional Affairs (1)	HC 519
Cricket	Culture (1)	HC 720
Cultural Heritage	Culture (3)	HC 912
Dept for International Development	Environmental Audit (10)	HC 1014
Developing Countries	International Development (6)	HC 923
Diplomatic relations	Foreign Affairs (3)	HC 903
Drugs	Science and Technology (5)	HC 1031
Education	Education (5)	HC 1201
Efficiency Scrutinies	Work and Pensions (2)	HC 834
Electromagnetic fields	Science and Technology (4)	HC 1030
Emergency services	Deputy Prime Minister (4)	HC 872
Environment Agency	Environment (7)	HC 780
Environment Protection	Environmental Audit (11)	HC 698
Environmental Audit Select Committee on International Trade and the WTO	Environmental Audit (11)	HC 1455
European Union	Foreign Affairs (6)	HC 768
Export Controls	Trade (7)	HC 873
Export Credits Guarantee Dept	Trade (5)	HC 1124
Export Credits Guarantee Dept	Trade (8)	HC 1670
Family Courts	Constitutional Affairs (6)	HC 1086
Financial Services	Treasury (7)	HC 778
Financial Services	Treasury (12)	HC 848
Fisheries	Environment (1)	HC 532
Football	Culture (4)	HC 1357
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Foreign Affairs (2)	HC 522
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	Foreign Affairs (8)	HC 1371
Freedom of Information	Constitutional Affairs (7	HC 991
Further Education	Education (4)	HC 649
HIV Infection	International Development (1)	HC 708
Housing	Deputy Prime Minister (3)	HC 703
Housing	Environmental Audit (5)	HC 779
Human Rights	Foreign Affairs (1)	HC 574
Human Rights	Foreign Affairs (7)	HC 860
Humanitarian Aid	International Development (7)	HC 1188
Identity Cards	Science and Technology (6)	HC 1032
Immigration controls	Home Affairs (5)	HC 775
Incapacity Benefit	Work and Pensions (3)	HC 616
India	Trade (3)	HC 881
Industry	Defence (7)	HC 824
Iraq	Defence (13)	HC 1241
Judge Advocate General	Constitutional Affairs (2)	HC 731
Licensing	Deputy Prime Minister (2)	HC 606
Meteorological Office	Defence (10)	HC 823
Military Aircraft	Defence (3)	HC 557
Ministry of Defence	Defence (6)	HC 822
Ministry of Defence	Defence (9)	HC 1366
Natural Gas	Trade (1)	HC 632
NHS	Health (3)	HC 815
NHS Treatment Centre	Health (4)	HC 934
Nuclear Power	Trade (4)	HC 1122
Nuclear Weapons	Defence (8)	HC 986
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister	Deputy Prime Minister (1)	HC 559
Peace Keeping Operations	Defence (4)	HC 980
Pensions	Treasury (5)	HC 1074
Pensions	Work and Pensions (4)	HC 1068
Planning	Communities and Local Government (5)	HC 1024
Pre-Budget Report 2005	Environmental Audit (4)	HC 882
Pre-Budget Report 2005	Treasury (2)	HC 739
Primary Care Trusts	Health (2)	HC 646
Private Sector	International Development (4)	HC 921
Public Expenditure	Education (2)	HC 479
Royal Mail	Trade (2)	HC 570
Royal Mail	Trade (9)	HC 1556
Rural Payments Agency	Environment (5)	HC 840
Schools	Education (1)	HC 633
Science	Science and Technology (7)	HC 900
Seas and Oceans	Environmental Audit (8)	HC 1323
Sentencing	Home Affairs (2)	HC 947
Sentencing	Home Affairs (3)	HC 1231
Sentencing	Home Affairs (6)	HC 1582

Section C - Part 3

Other Select Committees

This section lists Select Committees, other than those set up under Standing Order No 121 to monitor the work of Government Departments (see Section B1) and those connected with private legislation.

The reports of these Committees are given below. For those which publish numerous reports of a periodical nature, an indication of the numbers involved is given, but further details are available from the House of Commons Information Office if required. Membership given is as at Prorogation on 8 November 2006.

Administration

Clerk: Mr Mark & Ms Welfoot

Members (16)

Nominated 12 July 2005

Mr Frank Doran (Lab) (Chairman)

Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth (Lab)	Janet Anderson (Lab)	Mr Simon Burns (Con)
Mr Christopher Chope (Con)	Derek Conway (Lab)	Rt Hon Frank Dobson (Lab)
Mr Brian H Donohoe (Lab)	Mr Neil Gerrard (Lab)	Helen Jones (Lab)
Mr Kevan Jones (Lab)	Rt Hon Greg Knight (Con)	David Lepper (Lab)
Mr Andrew Robathan (Con)	John Thurso (Lib)	Pete Wishart (SNP)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Post- Election Services	HC 777	HC 1027
2	Refreshment Department Services	HC 733	HC1146
3	House of Commons Accommodation	HC1279

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Publications of summary records of discussion and committee papers	HC 659
2 sp	Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06 Post-Election Services, HC 777	HC 1027
3 sp	Response to the Committee's Second report of Session 2005-06 Refreshment Department, HC 733	HC 1146

Armed Forces Bill

Clerk: Mr Cooke

Members (14)

Nominated 19 December 2005

Rt Hon George Howarth (Lab) (Chairman)

Vera Baird (Lab)	Mr Colin Breed (LD)	Mr Simon Burns (Con)
Mr David Burrowes (Con)	Mr Alan Campbell (Lab)	Ben Chapman (Lab)
Mr Gerald Howarth (Con)	Mr Kevan Jones (Lab)	Robert Key (Con)
Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Lab)	Bob Russell (LD)	Jim Sheridan (Lab)
Rt Hon Don Touhig (Lab/Co op)

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Armed Forces Bill, Session 2005-06	HC 828

Crossrail

Clerks: Sîan

Members (10)

Nominated: 5th December 2005.

Mr Alan Meale (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Brian Binley (Con)	Ms Katy Clark (Lab)	Mr Philip Hollobone (Con)
Kelvin Hopkins (Lab)	Mrs Siân C. James (Lab)	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con)
John Pugh (Lib)	Mrs Linda Riordan (Lab)	Sir Peter Soulsby (Lab)

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	The Crossrail Bill: Woolwich Station	HC 1597

Enviromental Audit Committee

Clerks: Mike Hennessy

Members (15)

Nominated: 13 July 2005

Mr Tim Yeo ( Con) (Chairman)

Ms Celia Barlow (Lab)	Mr Martin Caton (Lab)	Mr Colin Challen (Lab)
Mr David Chaytor (Lab)	Mr Tim Farron (Lib)	David Howarth (Lib)
Mr Nick Hurd (Con)	Ian Pearson (Lab)	Mark Pritchard (Con)
Mrs Linda Riordan (Lab)	Mr Graham Stuart (Con)	Ms Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Dr Desmond Turner (Lab)	Mr Edward Vaizey (Con)	Joan Walley (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Greening Government: the 2004 Sustainable Development in Government Report	HC 698
2	Sustainable Timber	HC 607	HC 1078
3	Sustainable Procurement: The Way Forward	HC 740
4	Pre-Budget 2005: Tax, economic analysis, and climate change	HC 882
5	Sustainable Housing: A Follow-up Report	HC 779	Cm 6893
6	Keeping the lights on: Nuclear, Renewables and Climate Change	HC 584
7	Sustainable Development Reporting by Government Departments	HC 1322	HC 1681
8	Proposals for a draft Marine Bill	HC 1323	HC 1682
9	Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport	HC 981	HC 1718
10	Trade, Development and Environment: The Role of DFID	HC 1014
11	Outflanked: The World Trade Organisation, International Trade and Sustainable Development	HC 1455
12	Transport Emissions: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2005-06 on Reducing Carbon Emissions from Transport, HC 981	HC 1718

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2004-05 on Corporate Environmental Crime, HC 136	HC 434
2sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2004-05 on Pre-Budget 2004 and Budget 2005: Tax, Appraisal and Environment, HC 261	HC 528
3sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06 on Sustainable Timber, HC 607	HC 1078
4sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06 on Sustainable Development Reporting by Government Departments, HC 1322	HC 1681
5sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2005-06 on Proposals for a draft Marine Bill, HC 1323	HC 1682

European Scrutiny Committee

Clerks: Mr Alistair Doherty

Members (16)

Nominated: 4 July 2005

Michael Connarty (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Richard Bacon (Con)	Mr David Borrow (Lab)	Mr William Cash (Con)
Ms Katy Clark (Lab)	Mr Wayne David (Lab)	Jim Dobbin (Lab)
Michael Gove (Con)	Nia Griffith (Lab)	Mr David Hamilton (Lab)
Rt Hon. David Heathcoat- Amory (Con)	Mr Jimmy Hood (Lab)	Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Lab)
Angus Robertson (SNP)	Mr Anthony Steen (Con)
Mr Richard Younger Ross (Lib)

The Committee considers European Legislation and reports on a large number of items each year. 42 reports were published in Session 2005-06 as serial parts of HC 34. Further details are available from the House of Commons Information Office or on the parliament website.

Special Reports

No
1 sp

Title
Government response to Committee's 14th report 2004-05: Aspects of the EU's Constitutional Treaty (HC 38-xiv)

Paper No
527

Finance and Services Committee

Clerks: Andrew Kennon

Members (10)

Nominated: 21 July 2005

Sir Stuart Bell (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Clive Betts (Lab)	Mr Crispin Blunt (Con)	Mr Paul Burstow (Lib)
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)	Mr Frank Doran (Lab)	Ms Barbara Keeley (Lab)
Robert Key (Con)	Rt Hon Thomas McAvoy (Lab)	Mr Eric Martlew (Lab)

Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Clerks: Mr Walker (Commons) & Mr Lock (Lords)

Members (12)

Appointed by the House of Commons on 11 July 2005

Mr Andrew Dismore (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Douglas Carswell (Con)	Mary Creagh (Lab)	Nia Griffith (Lab)
Dr Evan Harris (LD)	Mr Richard Shepherd (Con)

Appointed by the House of Lords on 11 July 2005

Lord Bowness (Con)	Lord Campbell of Alloway (Con)	Lord Judd (Lab)
Lord Lester of Herne Hill (LD)	Lord Plant of Highfield (Lab)	Baroness Stern (XB)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Legislative Scrutiny: First Progress Report	HL 48; HC 560
2	Further Government Response to the Third Report from the Committee, Session 2004-05: Deaths in Custody	HL 60; HC 651
3	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Terrorism Bill and related matters	HL 75; HC 561	HL 114; HC 888
4	Legislative Scrutiny: Equality Bill	HL 89; HC 766
5	Legislative Scrutiny: Second Progress Report	HL 90; HC 767
6	Legislative Scrutiny: Third Progress Report	HL 96; HC 787
7	Legislative Scrutiny: Fourth Progress Report	HL 98 HC 829
8	Government Responses to Reports from the Committee in the last Parliament	HL 104; HC 850
9	Schools White Paper	HL 113; HC 887
10	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of this Session: Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Terrorism Bill and related matters	HL 114; HC 888
11	Legislative Scrutiny: Fifth Progress Report	HL 115; HC 899
12	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2006	HL 122; HC 915
13	Implementation of Strasbourg Judgments: First Progress Report	HL 133; HC 954
14	Legislative Scrutiny: Sixth Progress Report	HL 134; HC 955
15	Legislative Scrutiny: Seventh Progress Report	HL 144; HC 989
16	Proposal for a Draft Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order 2006	HL 154; HC 1022
17	Legislative Scrutiny: Eighth Progress Report	HL 164; HC 1062
18	Legislative Scrutiny: Ninth Progress Report	HL 177; HC 1098
19	The UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT)	HL 185; HC 701	HL 276; HC 1714
20	Legislative Scrutiny: Tenth Progress Report	HL 186; HC 1138
21	Legislative Scrutiny: Eleventh Progress Report	HL 201; HC 1216
22	Legislative Scrutiny: Twelfth Progress Report	HL 233, HC 1547
23	The Committee's Future Working Practices	HL 239; HC 1575
24	Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Prosecution and Pre-Charge Detention	HL 240; HC 1576	Cm 6920
25	Legislative Scrutiny: Thirteenth Progress Report	HL 241; 1577
26	Human trafficking	HL 245; HC 1127
27	Legislative Scrutiny: Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill	HL 246; HC 1625
28	Legislative Scrutiny: Fourteenth Progress Report	HL 247; HC 1626
29	Draft Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order 2006	HL 248; HC 1627
30	Government Response to the Committee's Nineteenth Report of this Session: The UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT)	HL 276; HC 1714
31	Legislative Scrutiny: Final Progress Report	HL 277; HC 1715
32	The Human Rights Act: the DCA and Home Office Reviews	HL 278; HC 1716	Cm 7011

Liaison

Clerks: Mr Cubie & Mr Wilson

Members (31)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Rt Hon Alan Williams (Lab) (Chairman)

Rt Hon James Arbuthnot (Con)	Rt Hon Kevin Barron (Lab)	Rt Hon Alan Beith (LD)
Sir Stuart Bell (Lab)	Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce (LD)	Sir Patrick Cormack (Con)
Rt Hon John Denham (Lab)	Mr Andrew Dismore (Lab)	Mr Frank Doran (Lab)
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab)	Dr Hywel Francis (Lab)	Mike Gapes (Lab/Co op)
Mr Jimmy Hood (Lab)	Rt Hon Michael Jack (Con)	Rt Hon Greg Knight (Con)
Mr Edward Leigh (Con)	Peter Luff (Con)	Rt Hon John McFall (Lab/Co op)
Rosemary McKenna (Lab)	Rt Hon David Maclean (Con)	Andrew Miller (Lab)
Mr Terry Rooney (Lab)	Mr Mohammad Sarwar (Lab)	Mr Barry Sheerman (Lab/Co op)
Dr Phyllis Starkey (Lab)	Mr John Whittingdale (Con)	Mr Phil Willis (LD)
Dr Tony Wright (Lab)	Mr Tim Yeo (Con)	Rt Hon Sir George Young (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1	Government Reply to the Annual Report for 2004	HC 855
2	A New Publication Order for Select Committee Evidence	HC 1271
3	Estimates Memoranda	HC 1685

Modernisation of the House of Commons

Clerks: Mr Irwin & Mr Healey

Members (15)

Nominated 12 July 2005

Rt Hon Jack Straw (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr Paul Burstow (LD)	Ms Dawn Butler (Lab)	Ann Coffey (Lab)
Rt Hon George Howarth (Lab)	Rt Hon Greg Knight (Con)	Mark Lazarowicz (Lab/Co op)
Rt Hon Theresa May (Con)	Mr Adrian Sanders (LD)	Mr Richard Shepherd (Con)
Graham Stringer (Lab)	Paddy Tipping (Lab)	Mr Edward Vaizey (Con)
Lynda Waltho (Lab)	Sir Nicholas Winterton (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1	The Legislative Process	HC 1097

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	Committee Stage of Public Bills: Consultation on Alternative Options	HC 810

Procedure

Clerks: Mr Hutton & Miss Preston

Members (13)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Rt Hon Greg Knight (Con) (Chairman)

Ms Celia Barlow (Lab)	Mr Christopher Chope (Con)	Ms Katy Clark (Lab)
Mr David Gauke (Con)	Andrew Gwynne (Lab)	John Hemming (Lib)
Mr Eric Illsley (Lab)	Mrs Siân C. James (Lab)	Rosemary McKenna (Lab)
Mrs Linda Riordan (Lab)	Sir Robert Smith (Lib)	Mr Rob Wilson (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1	Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill	HC 894
2	Application of the sub judice rule to proceedings in coroners' courts	HC 714

Public Accounts

Clerk: Mr Wright

Members (16)

Nominated 16 July 2005

Mr Edward Leigh (Con) (Chairman)

Mr Richard Bacon (Con)	Annette Brooke (LD)	Greg Clark (Con)
Rt Hon David Curry (Con)	Mr Ian Davidson (Lab/Co op)	Mr Philip Dunne (Con)
Helen Goodman (Lab)	John Healey (Lab)	Mr Sadiq Khan (Lab)
Sarah McCarthy-Fry (Lab)	Mr Austin Mitchell (Lab)	Dr John Pugh (LD)
Rt Hon Don Touhig (Lab/Co op)	Kitty Ussher (Lab)	Rt Hon Alan Williams (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Managing National Lottery Distribution Fund balances	HC 408	Cm 6712
2	The regeneration of the Millennium Dome and associated land	HC 409	Cm 6689
3	Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 2004	HC 410	Cm 6712
4	Fraud and error in benefit expenditure	HC 411	Cm 6728
5	Inland Revenue: Tax Credits and deleted tax cases	HC 412	Cm 6689
6	Department of Trade and Industry: Renewable energy	HC 413	Cm 6689
7	The use of operating theatres in the Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services	HC 414	Cm 6699
8	Navan Centre	HC 415	Cm 6699
9	Foot and Mouth Disease: applying the lessons	HC 563	Cm 6728
10	Jobskills	HC 564	Cm 6724
11	Local Management of Schools	HC 565	Cm 6724
12	Helping those in financial hardship: the running of the Social Fund	HC 601	Cm 6728
13	The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Tackling homelessness	HC 653	Cm 6743
14	Energywatch and Postwatch	HC 654	Cm 6743
15	HM Customs and Excise Standard Report 2003-04	HC 695	Cm 6743
16	Home Office: Reducing vehicle crime	HC 696	Cm 6743
17	Achieving value for money in the delivery of public services	HC 742	Cm 6743
18	Department for Education and Skills: Improving school attendance in England	HC 789	Cm 6766
19	Department of Health: Tackling cancer: improving the patient journey	HC 790	Cm 6766
20	The NHS Cancer Plan: a progress report	HC 791	Cm 6766
21	Skills for Life: Improving adult literacy and numeracy	HC 792	Cm 6766
22	Maintaining and improving Britain's railway stations	HC 535	Cm 6775
23	Filing of income tax self assessment returns	HC 681	Cm 6775
24	The BBC's White City 2 development	HC 652
25	Securing strategic leadership in the learning and skills sector	HC 602	Cm 6775
26	Assessing and reporting military readiness	HC 667	Cm 6775
27	Lost in translation? Responding to the challenges of European law	HC 590	Cm 6775
28	Extending access to learning through technology: Ufi and the learndirect service	HC 706	Cm 6775
29	Excess Votes 2004-05	HC 916
30	Excess Votes (Northern Ireland) 2004-05	HC 917
31	Northern Ireland's Waste Management Strategy	HC 741	Cm 6843
32	Working with the Voluntary Sector	HC 717	Cm 6789
33	The Royal Parks and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain	HC 644	Cm 6789
34	Returning failed asylum applicants	HC 620	Cm 6863
35	The refinancing of the Norfolk and Norwich PFI Hospital	HC 694	Cm 6924
36	Tackling the complexity of the benefits system	HC 765	Cm 6863
37	Inland Revenue Standard Report: New Tax Credits	HC 782	Cm 6863
38	Channel Tunnel Rail Link	HC 272	Cm 6863
39	Consular services to British nationals	HC 813	CM 6863
40	Environment Agency: Efficiency in water resource management	HC 749	Cm 6884
41	The South Eastern Passenger Rail Franchise	HC 770	Cm 6884
42	Enforcing competition in markets	HC 841	Cm 6884
43	Delivery chain analysis for bus services in England	HC 851	Cm 6900
44	National Offender Management Service: Dealing with increased numbers in custody	HC 788	Cm 6900
45	Employers' perspectives on improving skills for employment	HC 862	Cm 6900
46	Governance issues in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment's former Local Enterprise Development Unit	HC 918
47	NHS Local Improvement Finance Trusts	HC 562	Cm 6908
48	HM Customs and Excise: Standard Report 2004-05	HC 874	Cm 6908
49	Corporation Tax: companies managed by HM Revenue and Customs' Area Offices	HC 967	Cm 6908
50	Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 2005	HC 889	Cm 6908
51	A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety	HC 831	Cm 6908
52	Reducing brain damage: faster access to better stroke care	HC 911	Cm 6924
53	Department for Work and Pensions: Delivering effective services through contact centres	HC 1034
54	UK Sport: Supporting elite athletes	HC 898	Cm 6924
55	Progress in improving government efficiency	HC 978	Cm 6959
56	Serving time: prisoner diet and exercise	HC 1063	Cm 6924
57	The closure of MG Rover	HC 1003	Cm 6959
58	Enhancing urban green space	HC 1073
59	Improving poorly performing schools in England	HC 956
60	Home Office Resource Accounts 2004-05 and follow-up on Returning failed asylum applicants	HC 1079	Cm 6959
61	Crown Prosecution Service: Effective use of magistrates' courts hearings	HC 982
62	The electronic monitoring of adult offenders	HC 997
63	Delivering high quality public services for all	HC 1530	Cm 6959

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	The response of the BBC Governors to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2004-05, The BBC's investment in Freeview, HC 237	HC 750
2 sp	The response of the BBC Governors to the Committee's Twenty-fourth Report of Session 2005-06, The BBC's White City 2 development, HC 652	HC 1139

Public Administration

Clerks: Ms Sampson & Mr Porro

Members (11)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Dr Tony Wright (Lab) (Chairman)

Mr David Burrowes (Con)	Paul Flynn (Lab)	David Heyes (Lab)
Kelvin Hopkins (Lab)	Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Con)	Julie Morgan (Lab)
Mr Gordon Prentice (Lab)	Paul Rowen (LD)	Grant Shapps (Con)
Jenny Willott (LD)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	A Debt of Honour	HC 735
2	Tax Credits: putting things right	HC 577	HC 1076
3	Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill	HC 1033	HC 1025
4	Propriety and Honours: Interim Findings	HC 1119
5	Whitehall Confidential? The Publication of Political Memoirs	HC 689
6	The Ombudsman in Question: the Ombudsman's report on pensions and its constitutional implications	HC 1081	Cm 6961
7	The Ministerial Code: the case for independent investigation	HC 1457

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	The Attendance of the Prime Minister's Strategy Adviser before the Public Administration Select Committee	HC 690
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report 2004-05, Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions, HC 449	HC 853
3 sp	Inquiry into the Scrutiny of Political Honours	HC 1020
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report, Tax Credits: putting things right HC 577	HC 1076
5 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report, Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 1033	HC 1205

Quadripartite Committee (Committees on Strategic Export Controls)

Clerks: Glenn McKee

Members (16)

Members from the Trade and Industry Committee

Roger Berry MP (Chairman) (Lab)

Mr Lindsay Hoyle (Lab)

Peter Luff (Con)

Judy Mallaber (Lab)

Members from the Defence Committee

Mr David S Borrow (Labour)

Mr David Crausby (Lab)

Linda Gilroy (Lab)

Robert Key (Con)

Members from the Foreign Affairs Committee

Mike Gapes (Lab)

Mr Fabian Hamilton (Lab)

Mr Paul Keetch (Lib)

Rt Hon Sir John Stanley (Con)

Members from the International Development Committee

Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce (Lib)

John Barrett (Lib)

John Bercow (Con)

Richard Burden (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1sp	Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny	HC 873

HC 873

Cm 6954

Regulatory Reform

Clerk: Mr Hillyard

Members (14)

Nominated 11 July 2005

Andrew Miller (Lab) (Chairman)

Gordon Banks (Lab)	Lorely Burt (LD)	Mr James Gray (Con)
Stephen Hammond (Con)	John Hemming (LD)	Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
Mr Stewart Jackson (Con)	Dr Doug Naysmith (Lab/Co op)	Mr Jamie Reed (Lab)
Alison Seabeck (Lab)	Mr Andrew Slaughter (Lab)	Ms Angela C. Smith (Lab)
Mr Anthony Steen (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1	Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Forestry) Order 2006	HC 729
2	Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Public Service Vehicles) Order 2006	HC 879
3	Draft Regulatory Reform (Forestry) Order 2006	HC 880
4	Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Subordinate Provisions Order 2006	HC 1005
5	Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006	HC 1142
6	Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Agricultural Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2006	HC 1309
7	Draft Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006	HC 1439
8	Draft Regulatory Reform (Agricultural Tenancies) (England and Wales) Order 2006	HC 1555

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 111	HC 878
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Special Report of Session 2005-06: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, HC 878	HC 1004

Science and Technology

Clerks: Mr Shaw & Miss Blacklock

Members (11)

Nominated 13 July 2005

Mr Phil Willis (LD) (Chairman)

Adam Afriyie (Con)	Jim Devine (Lab)	Mr Robert Flello (Lab)
Dr Evan Harris (LD)	Dr Brian Iddon (Lab)	Margaret Moran (Lab)
Mr Brooks Newmark (Con)	Anne Snelgrove (Lab)	Dr Bob Spink (Con)
Dr Desmond Turner (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No	Govt reply
1	Meeting UK Energy and Climate Needs	HC 478	HC 1036
2	Strategic Science Provision in English Universities: A Follow-up	HC 1011	HC 1382
3	Research Council Support for Knowledge Transfer	HC 995	HC 1653
4	Watching the Directives: Scientific Advice on the EU Physical Agents (Electromagnetic Fields) Directive	HC 1030	HC 1654
5	Drug classification: making a hash of it?	HC 1031	Cm 6941
6	Identity Card Technologies: Scientific Advice, Risk and Evidence	HC 1032	Cm 6942
7	Scientific Evidence, Risk and Evidence Based Policy Making	HC 900

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, Forensic Science on Trial, HC 96	HC 427
2 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2004-05, Strategic Science Provision in English Universities, HC 220	HC 428
3 sp	Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2005-06, Meeting UK Energy and Climate Needs: The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage, HC 478	HC 1036
4 sp	Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2005-06, Strategic Science Provision in English Universities: A Follow-up, HC 1011	HC 1382
5sp	Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2005-06 Research Council Support for Knowledge Transfer, HC 995	HC 1653
6sp	Responses to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2005-06 Watching the Directives: Scientific Advice on the EU Physical Agents (Electromagnetic Fields) Directive, HC 1030	HC 1654

Standards and Privileges

Clerks: Dr Ward & Miss McCullough

Members (10)

Nominated 12 July 2005

Rt Hon Sir George Young (Con) (Chairman)

Rt Hon Kevin Barron (Lab)	Rt Hon David Curry (Con)	Mr Andrew Dismore (Lab)
Nick Harvey (LD)	Mr Brian Jenkins (Lab)	Mr Elfyn Llwyd (PC)
Mr Chris Mullin (Lab)	Hon Nicholas Soames (Con)	Dr Alan Whitehead (Lab)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1	Conduct of Mr Jonathan Sayeed	HC 419
2	Conduct of Mr John Horam	HC 420
3	Conduct of Mr Tony Baldry	HC 421
4	Pay for Standing Committee Chairmen	HC 568
5	Electoral Administration Bill: Simplification of Donation Reporting Requirements	HC 807
6	Mr Stephen Byers (Matter referred on 19 October 2005)	HC 854
7	Conduct of Mr George Galloway	HC 1067
8	Conduct of Mr Mark Lancaster	HC 1144
9	Lobbying and All Party Groups	HC 1145
10	Conduct of Mr Michael Foster (Worcester)	HC 1223
11	Conduct of Ms Emily Thornberry	HC 1367
12	Conduct of Nadine Dorries	HC 1368
13	Conduct of Mr John Prescott	HC 1553
14	Conduct of Dr Desmond Turner	HC 1578
15	Conduct of Mr Eric Illsley	HC 1579
16	Review of The Guide to the Rules relating to the conduct of Members: Consultation Document	HC 1580

Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)

Clerks : Mr Hillyard (Commons) & Ms Kavanagh (Lords)

Members (14)

Appointed by the House of Commons on 28 June 2005

Rt Hon David Maclean (Con) (Chairman)

Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (Lab)	Mr Peter Bone (Con)	Michael Jabez Foster (Lab)
Mr David Kidney (Lab)	Mr John MacDougall (Lab)	David Simpson (DU)

Appointed by the House of Lords on 15 June 2005

Lord Brougham and Vaux (Con)	Lord Dykes (LD)	Baroness Gale (Lab)
Lord Gould of Brookwood (Lab)	Lord Greenway (XB)	Lord Howard of Rising (Con)
Lord Mancroft (Con)

The Committee produced 37 reports in session 2005-06 published as serial parts of HC 35. Further details are available from the House of Commons Information Office.

Special Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1sp	First Special Report	HL 40 HC 425
2sp	Second Special Report of Session 2005-06	HL 230 HC 1523

Statutory Instruments (Select Committee)

Clerk: Mr Hillyard

Members (7)

Nominated 28 June 2005

Rt Hon David Maclean (Con) (Chairman)

Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods (Lab)	Mr Peter Bone (Con)	Michael Jabez Foster (Lab)
Mr David Kidney (Lab)	Mr John MacDougall (Lab)	David Simpson (DU)

The Committee produced six reports in session 2005-06, published as serial parts of HC 871. Further details are available from the House of Commons Information Office.

Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)

Clerks: Mr Farrar (Commons) & Mr Besly (Lords)

Members (13)

Appointed by the House of Commons on 29 November 2005

Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC (Con) (Chairman)

Mr Nick Clegg (LD)	John Healey (Lab)	Kali Mountford (Lab)
Mr Andy Reed (Lab/Co op)	Mark Tami (Lab)	Peter Viggers (Con)

Appointed by the House of Lords on 29 November 2005

Lord Blackwell (Con)	Baroness Cohen of Pimlico (Lab)	Lord Goodhart (LD)
Lord Haskel (Lab)	Rt Hon Lord Millett (XB)	Rt Hon Lord Newton of Braintree (Con)

Reports

No	Title	Paper No
1	First Report	HL 37; HC 285

Section C - Part 4

National Audit Office and Northern Ireland Audit Office

Title		Paper No		Public Accounts Cttee Report No
Department for International Assistance: Tsunami - provision of financial support for humanitarian assistance.	HC 803
Ministry of Defence: progress in combat identification.	HC 936
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: enhancing urban green space.	HC 935
Securing strategic leadership for the learning and skills sector in England.	HC 29
Department of Health: innovation in the NHS - local improvement finance trusts.	HC 28
Ministry of Defence: driving the successful delivery of major defence projects: effective project control is a key factor in successful projects.	HC 30
Lost in translation? responding to the challenges of European law.	HC 26		HC 590
Ministry of Defence: managing the defence estate	HC 25
Public Guardianship Office: protecting and promoting the financial affairs of people who lose mental capacity.	HC 27
The refinancing of the Norfolk and Norwich PFI Hospital; how the deal can be viewed in the light of the refinancing.	HC 78		HC 694
Education and health and social services transport.	HC 32
Environment Agency: efficiency in water resource management.	HC 73
Ministry of Defence: assessing and reporting military readiness.	HC 72		HC 667
Decision making and disability living allowance.	HC 43
HM Revenue and Customs: filing of income tax self assessment returns.	HC 74
Northern Ireland's waste management strategy.	HC 88		HC 741
Home Office: working with the third sector.	HC 75		HC 717
Home Office: National Asylum Support Service; the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers.	HC 130
National Audit Office Resource Accounts 2004/05.	HC 305
Northern Ireland Audit Office Resource Accounts for 2004/05.	HC 229
Northern Ireland Audit Office Reports. General	HC 96
Returning failed asylum applicants.	HC 76		HC 620
Progress on the Channel Tunnel rail link.	HC 77		HC 272
Maintaining and improving Britain's railway stations.	HC 132		HC 535
Department for Work and Pensions: gaining and retaining a job.	HC 455
Joint targets.	HC 453
National Offender Management Service.	HC 458		HC 788
A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety.	HC 456		HC 831
Department for Education and Skills: extending access to learning through technology: Ufi and the Learndirect service.	HC 460		HC 706
The private finance initiative: electronic libraries for Northern Ireland. Report by the Northern Ireland Comptroller and Auditor general.	HC 523
Department of Health: Reducing brain damage - faster access to better stroke care .	HC 452		HC 911
Department of Work and Pensions: Dealing with the complexity of the benefits system .	HC 592		HC 765
Office of Fair Trading:Enforcing competition in markets.	HC 593
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office: consular services to British nationals.	HC 594
Ministry of Defence major projects report 2005. Report in 2 volumes by the Comptroller and Auditor General.	HC 595
Procurement in the Culture Media and Sport sector.	HC 596
South Eastern passenger rail franchise.	HC 457
Delivery chain analysis for bus services in England.	HC 677		HC 851
Audit of assumptions for the 2005 Pre-Budget Report.	HC 707
Employers' perspectives on improving skills for employment.	HC 461		HC 862
Building more affordable homes: improving the delivery of affordable housing in areas of high demand.	HC 459
Corporation Tax: companies managed by HM Revenue and Customs area offices.	HC 678		HC 967
Department of Education and Skills:Improving poorly performing schools in England.	HC 679		HC 956
Northern Ireland Policing Board: best value performance plan for 2005-06.	HC 796
Department for Work and Pensions:Using leaflets to communicate with the public about services and entitlements.	HC 797		HC 133
The wider markets initiative.	HC 799
The electronic monitoring of adult offenders.	HC 800		HC 997
Insolvency and the conduct of directors.	HC 816
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets: sale of gas networks by National Grid.	HC 804
Governance issues in the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment's former Local Enterprise Development Unit in relation to the establishment and oversight of the emerging Business Trust Loan and Venture Funds.	HC 817		HC 918
Progress in improving government efficiency, with case studies. Report in 2 volumes by the Comptroller and Auditor General.	HC 802		HC 978
Crown Prosecution Service - effective use of magistrates courts hearings.	HC 798		HC 982
Tackling child obesity.	HC 801
Into the West (Tyrone and Fermanagh) Ltd: use of agents.	HC 877
Delivering efficiently: strengthening the links in public service delivery chains.	HC 940
HM Prison Service: serving time - prisoner diet and exercise.	HC 939		HC 1063
The closure of MG Rover.	HC 961		HC 1003
Department for Social Development: Social Security Agency - third party deductions from benefit and the funding of Fernhill House Museum.	HC 901
Department for Work and Pensions: delivering effective services through contact centres.	HC 941
The office accommodation of the Department of Culture Media and Sport and its sponsored bodies.	HC 942
The restructuring of British Energy.	HC 943
Improving the efficiency of postal services procurement in the public sector, with case studies and a good practice guide (in three volumes).	HC 946
Re-opening the post: Postcomm and the quality of mail services.	HC 944
Second validation compendium report: 2003-06 PSA data systems.	HC 985
The PFI contract for Northern Ireland's new vehicle testing facilities.	HC 952
Audit of assumptions for the 2006 Budget (HC 968 2005-06).	HC 937
Financial management in the European Union.	HC 999
Smarter food procurement in the public sector, with case studies and a good practice guide, in three volumes.	HC 963
Financial auditing and reporting 2004/05: general report of the Comptroller and Auditor General.	HC 1015
Ministry of Defence: reserve forces.	HC 964
Improving literacy and numeracy in schools.	HC 953
Update on PFI debt refinancing and the PFI equity market.	HC 1040
Highways Agency; A5 queue relocation in Dunstable - wider lessons.	HC 1043
The management of staff sickness absence in the National Probation Service.	HC 1042
The provision of out-of-hours care in England.	HC 1041
The termination of the PFI contract for the National Physical Laboratory.	HC 1044
Private practice in the health service.	HC 1088
Department for Constitutional Affairs: fines collection.	HC 1049
HM Revenue and Customs:VAT on e-commerce.	HC 1051
Supporting small business.	HC 962
Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs and the Countryside Agency: the right of access to open countryside.	HC 1046
Ministry of Defence: using the contract to maximise the likelihood of successful project outcomes.	HC 1047
Collections management in the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland.	HC 1130
Summarised accounts in 2 volumes of strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and NHS trusts in England, of the National Blood Authority, NHS Logistics and NHS Professionals 2004-05.	HC 1092
Departmental responses to recommendations in NIAO reports.	HC 1149
Northern Ireland Audit Office resource accounts 2005-06.	HC 1135
Department of Health: the national programme for IT in the NHS.	HC 1173
Financial auditing and reporting 2004/05. General	HC 1199
Evaluation of Regulatory Impact Assessments 2005/06.	HC 1305
Department for Work and Pensions: Child Support Agency - implementation of the child support reforms.	HC 1174
Department for International Development; working with non-governmental and other civil society organisations to promote development.	HC 1311
The creation of Ofcom: wider lessons for public sector mergers of regulatory agencies.	HC 1175
BBC outsourcing;the contract between the BBC and Siemens Business Services for the provision of technology services. NAO review presented to the BBC Governors Audit Committee June 2005, with a response to the review by the BBC.	UC 82
BBC's definition of overheads. NAO review presented to the BBC Governors Audit Committee June 2005, with a response to the review by the BBC.	UC 83
Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in NHS acute and foundation trusts.	HC 1176
A foot on the ladder: low cost home ownership assistance.	HC 1048
Resource Accounts for 2005-06 for National Audit Office. (Vote)	HC 1487
HM Revenue and Customs: ASPIRE - the re-competition of outsourced IT services.	HC 938
International benchmark of fraud and error in social security systems.	HC 1387
Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements.	HC 1178
Achieving innovation in central Government organisations.	HC 1447
Ministry of Defence: delivering digital tactical communications through the Bowman CIP programme.	HC 1050
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs: reducing the reliance on landfill in England.	HC 1177
Collections management in the national museums and galleries of Northern Ireland.	HC 1541
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, and Rural Payments Agency: the delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England.	HC 1631
Improving procurement in further education colleges in England. (Vote)	HC 1632
Sea fisheries: vessel modernisation and decommissioning schemes.	HC 1636
Ministry of Defence: Recruitment and retention in the armed forces. Report in 2 volumes by the Comptroller and Auditor General.	HC 1633

Section C - Part 5

Other Committees

Advisory Committee of Works of Art

Clerk: Miss Welfoot

Members: (9)

Appointed: 20 July 2005

Mr Hugo Swire (Con) (Chairman)

Mr Peter Ainsworth (Con)	Frank Doran (Lab)	Lady Hermon (UU)
Anne Main (Con)	Judy Mallaber (Lab)	Christine Russell (Lab)
John Thurso, (LD)	Derek Wyatt (Lab)

Chairman's Panel

Clerk: Mr Cranmer

Members: (37)

Appointed: 24 May 2005

Rt Hon Sir Alan Haselhurst (Chairman of Ways and Means) (ex officio)

Sylvia Heal (First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) (ex officio)

Sir Michael Lord (Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) (ex officio)

Mr David Amess (Con)	Janet Anderson (Lab)	Mr Peter Atkinson (Con)
Hugh Bayley (Lab)	Miss Anne Begg (Lab)	Mr Joe Benton (Lab)
John Bercow (Con)	Sir John Butterfill (Con)	Mr Martin Caton (Lab)
Mr Christopher Chope (Con)	Derek Conway (Con)	Frank Cook (Lab)
John Cummings (Lab)	Mrs Janet Dean (Lab)	Mr Roger Gale (Con)
Mr Mike Hancock CBE (LD)	Mr Jimmy Hood (Lab)	Mrs Joan Humble (Lab)
Mr Eric Illsley (Lab)	Mr Martyn Jones (Lab)	Rev Dr William McCrea (DU)
Mr David Marshall (Lab)	Mr Eric Martlew (Lab)	Mr Edward O'Hara (Lab)
Mr Bill Olner (Lab)	Mr Greg Pope (Lab)	David Taylor (Lab/Co op)
Mr Mike Weir (SNP)	Hywel Williams (PC)	Mr David Wilshire (Con)
Ann Winterton (Con)	Sir Nicholas Winterton (Con)

Ecclesiastical Committee

Nominated in pursuance of Section 2(2) of the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919

Clerks: Dr Griffiths (Commons), Mr Mohan (Lords)

Members: (30)

House of Lords

Nominated 2 November 2005

Lord Lloyd of Berwick (elected Chair, 3 Nov 2005) (CB)

Lord Davies of Coity (Lab)	Lord Elton (Con)	Lord Judd (Lab)
Lord Laming (CB)	Baroness Massey of Darwen (Lab)	Lord Newby (LD)
Baroness Perry of Southwark (Con)	Lord Pilkington of Oxenford (Con)	Baroness Rendell of Babergh (Lab)
Lord Shaw of Northstead (Con)	Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)	Lord Walpole (CB)
Baroness Wilcox (Con)	Lord Williams of Elvel (Lab)

House of Commons

Nominated 6 July 2005

Sir Stuart Bell (Lab)	Peter Bottomley (Con)	Ben Chapman (Lab)
Sir Patrick Cormack (Con)	Mr David Drew (Lab)	Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Lab)
Mr Frank Field (Lab)	Mr John Gummer (Con)	Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
Simon Hughes (LD)	Robert Key (Con)	Mr Gordon Marsden (Lab)
Mr Desmond Swayne (Con)	David Taylor (Lab)	Steve Webb (LD)

Intelligence and Security

Clerk: contact Cabinet Office

Members: (9)

Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP (chair)

Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC DL MP	Rt Hon Alan Beith MP	Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale
Ben Chapman MP	Rt Hon George Howarth MP	Rt Hon Michael Mates MP
Richard Ottaway MP	Dari Taylor MP

Private Bills: Unopposed Bills (Panel)

Clerk: Mr Whatley

Members (19)

Nominated 19 October 2005

Rt Hon Sir Alan Haselhurst (Chairman of Ways and Means) (ex officio)

Sylvia Heal (First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) (ex officio)

Sir Michael Lord (Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) (ex officio)

John Austin (Lab)	Mr Adrian Bailey (Lab/Co op)	Gordon Banks (Lab)
Peter Bottomley (Con)	Sir John Butterfill (Con)	Colin Challen (Lab)
Paul Farrelly (Lab)	Mr Brian Jenkins (Lab)	Helen Jones (Lab)
Siobhain McDonagh (Lab)	John Mann (Lab)	Sir Robert Smith (LD)
Sir Peter Tapsell (Con)	Jon Trickett (Lab)	Mr Robert Walter (Con)
Ann Winterton (Con)

Selection

Clerk: Miss Jones

Members: (9)

Appointed: 13 July 2005

Rosemary McKenna (Lab) (Chairman)

Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth (Lab)	Mr Alan Campbell (Lab)	Tony Cunningham (Lab)
Mr John Heppell (Lab)	Mr John Randall (Con)	Mr Andrew Robathan (Con)
Mr Adrian Sanders (LD)	Rt Hon Sir George Young (Con)

Section C - Part 6

'Matters' Discussed by Grand Committees

Scottish Grand Committee

Since its establishment in 1957 the powers and functions of this committee have changed. New current arrangements were agreed by the House in 1994 and enhanced in December 1995. To reflect these arrangements this Section now includes the full details of the business dealt with at each sitting. Further information can be found in Factsheet P8: Scottish and Welsh Business in the House of Commons.

None

Welsh Grand Committee

Since its establishment in 1959/60 the functions of the committee have changed. The current arrangements were agreed by the House in March 1996. This Section will reflect these changes. Further information can be found in Factsheet P8: Scottish and Welsh Business in the House of Commons.

Date	Chairmen	Business
19th April 2006 (Afternoon)	Mr. Martyn Jones	Budget Implications for Wales
19th April 2006 (Morning)	Mr. Martyn Jones	Budget Implications for Wales
23rd June 2005 (Morning)	Mr. Martin Caton	Government's Legislative Programme

Northern Ireland Grand Committee

Established in 1975, the Committee's powers and functions were enhanced in March 1997 and brought into line with the Scottish and Welsh Grand Committees. See House of Commons Standing Orders 109-116.

Date	Chairmen	Business
20 June 2006	Hugh Bayley	Draft Budget (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006
28 March 2006	Mr. Peter Atkinson	Review of Public Administration
7 February 2006	Mr. Bill Olner	Draft Budget (Northern Ireland) Order 2006
15 November 2005	Mr. David Wilshire	Draft Priorities and Budget 2006-08
29 June 2005	Mr. Joe Benton	Draft Budget (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

Section C - Part 7

European Documents Standing Committees

From the start of the 2005/06 session the European Standing Committees (ESC) lettered A, B and C, have been appointed with temporary membership for consideration of individual documents. Their composition appears in the Weekly Information Bulletin. They consider matters referred to them by the House and any Member may attend and speak. For further details see Factsheet L11 available from the House of Commons Information Office. Committees A, B and C deal with matters within the responsibilities of different Departments. The list is as follows:

ESC A:	Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Environment, Transport and the Regions; Forestry Commission (and analogous) responsibilities of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Offices)
ESC B:	HM Treasury (including Customs and Excise); Social Security; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Lord Chancellor's Department; together with any matters not otherwise allocated by SO No 119
ESC C:	Trade and Industry; Education and Employment; Culture, Media and Sport

ESC A

Documents Discussed

Date	Chairman	Document No and Subject
14.07.2005	Frank Cook	Working conditions on interoperable cross-border rail services (6364/05)
19.10.2005	Hugh Bayley	Marketing of genetically modified maize (8635/05)
9.11.2005	John Cummings	Common Agricultural Policy: reform of the sugar sector (10514/05)
24.11.2005	Mr. Edward O'Hara	Reducing the Climate Change Impact of Aviation (12790/05)
30.11.2005	Sir Nicholas Winterton	The Control of Avian Influenza (8630/05)
17.01.2006	Hywel Williams	Energy Efficiency (10368/05)
30.01.2006	Mr. David Wilshire	Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) Roadmap (11408/05)
14.02.2006	Mr. Eric Martlew	Strategy for the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment (13700/05 and 13759/05)
07.03.2006	Mr. David Amess	Civil Aviation Security (12588/05)
13.03.2006	Mr. David Marshall	Air Traffic Management (15143/05)
24.04.2006	John Bercow	The promotion of clean road vehicles (5130/06 and Addendum 1)
27.04.2006	Mr. Bill Olner	Protection of chickens kept for meat production (9606/05 and Addendum 1)
17.07.2006	Mr. Peter Atkinson	Vehicle Type Approval: Emission Limits (5163/06 and Addendum 1)
23.10.2006	Sir John Butterfill	Voluntary Reduction ("modulation") of Direct Farm Support Payments (10014/06)
30.10.2006	Mr. Mike Hancock	Transport Policy (10954/06 and Addendum 1)

ESC B

Documents Discussed

Date	Chairman	Document No and Subject
19.07.2005	Mr. Edward O'Hara	EU contribution to the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (7455/05)
20.10.2005	Mr. Mike Hancock	EU Common Strategy on Russia (Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 7 June 2005, submitted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
1.11.2005	Mr. Mike Hancock	Draft Budget 2006 (Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 1 June 2005, submitted by HM Treasury)
2.11.2005	Mr. Martyn Jones	European Union Arms Exports (Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 4 July 2005, submitted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
3.11.2005	Hugh Bayley	EU contribution to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (8137/05, 8138/05 & 8139/05)
10.11.2005	Mr. Martin Caton	EC External Action - new instruments for co-operation (13686/04, 13687/04, 13688/04, 13689/04, 13690/04)
17.11.2005	Mr. Bill Olner	EU Development Policy (11413/05)
1.12.2005	Mr. Martyn Jones	European Evidence Warrant (11288/05)
6.12.2005	John Cummings	Return of Illegal Immigrants (12125/05)
8.12.2005	Mr. Mike Weir	Tackling Organised Crime (9997/05)
12.12.2005	Mr. Martin Caton	Economic Migration (5436/05)
18.01.2006	Miss Anne Begg	Charter of Fundamental Rights and Commission Legislative Proposals (COM(05)172)
16.02.2006	Mr. Hywel Williams	Value Added Tax (11439/05)
28.02.2006	Mr. Martyn Jones	The exchange of information between law enforcement authorities
20.03.2006	Sir John Butterfill	Financial services policy (15345/05)
27.03.2006	Hugh Bayley	Access to European databases on asylum, immigration and visas (15122/05 and 15142/05)
28.03.2006	Mr. David Marshall	The EC Treaty and criminal law (15444/1/05)
08.05.2006	John Bercow	Cooperation on asylum policy and practice (6520/06)
23.05.2006	Mr. Greg Pope	Democracy, Dialogue and Debate (14775/05)
11.07.2006	Mr. Greg Pope	Preliminary Draft Budget (Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 23 May)

ESC C

Documents Discussed

Date	Chairman	Document No and Subject
17.10.2005	Frank Cook	Marketing of foods derived from genetically modified maize (Unnumbered Explanatory Memorandum dated 15 July 2005 submitted by the Food Standards Agency)
7.11.2005	Mrs. Joan Humble	Nominal quantities for pre-packed products (15570/04 and 15614/04)
8.11.2005	John Cummings	European Information Society for growth and employment (9758/05)
14.11.2005	Mrs. Janet Dean	Marketing of foods derived from genetically modified maize (12197/05)
06.03.2006	Mrs. Janet Dean	Competition: Maritime Transport (16106/05)
16.05.2006	Mr. Bill Olner	Internal Market for Services (6174/04)
20.06.2006	Hugh Bayley	Education and Training: Key Competences (Unnumbered Letter dated 9 May 2006, submitted by the Department for Education and Skills)
27.60.2006	Sir Nicholas Winterton	Strategy for Sustainable Competitive and Secure Energy (7070/06 and Addendum 1)



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