Select Committees

A complete list of Select Committee membership and a Factsheet (P2) on the work of Select Committees is available on request from the House of Commons Information Office. The list and Factsheet are also on the Parliament website at:

http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/factsheets.cfm

An index to the Select Committee home pages together with links to further pages containing information about their work and publications is on the Parliament website at:

http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/parliamentary_committees16.cfm

Membership:

European Scrutiny - Mr Jimmy Hood and Mr David Hamilton discharged; Kelvin Hopkins and Mr Bob Laxton added

Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee)

Chairman: Lord Puttnam

Commons Membership:

Ms Celia Barrow	Mr David Chaytor	Helen Goodman	Nia Griffth
David Howarth	Mr Nick Hurd	Mr David Kidney	Mark Lazarowicz
Mr Graham Stuart	Dr Desmond Turner	Dr Alan Whitehead	Mr Tim Yeo

Lords Membership:

Baroness Billingham	Earl of Caithness	Lord Crickhowell	Lord Jay of Ewelme
Lord May of Oxford	Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer	Earl of Selbourne	Lord Woolmer of Leeds
Lord Teverson	Lord Vinson	Lord Whitty

Select Committee Meetings
23 - 27 April

Monday 23 April
EDUCATION AND SKILLS Subject: Higher Education Witnesses: Professor John Brennan, Director, Centre for Higher Education Research and Information, Professor Phil Brown, Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Martin Davidson, Director General, British Council and Professor Bernadette Robinson, University of Nottingham
ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS: BRITISH WATERWAYS SUB-COMMITTEE Subject: British Waterways Witnesses: The Parliamentary Waterways Group; Barry Gardiner MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Subject: Helping newly registered businesses meet their tax obligations Witnesses: Paul Gray CB, Chairman, and Theresa Middleton, Director, Small and Medium Enterprise, HM Revenue and Customs
Joint Committee
JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS Subject: The human rights of older persons in healthcare Witnesses: Action on Elder Abuse and Alzheimer's Society; British Institute of Human Rights and Race on the Agenda
Tuesday 24 April
TREASURY* Subject: The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England: ten years on Witnesses: Kate Barker, Dr Andrew Sentance, Professor Tim Besley, and Professor David Blanchflower, External members, Monetary Policy Committee; Mervyn King, Governor, Rachel Lomax and Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governors, and Paul Tucker, and Charles Bean, Executive Directors, Bank of England
COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Subject: Equality Witness: Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Commission for Equality and Human Rights
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Subject: Beyond Stern: Forecasting, Cost-Effectiveness and Climate Change Witnesses: Office of Climate Change; Energy Saving Trust; and WWF-UK and RSPB
CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT* Subject: Public Service Media Content Witnesses: Mark Thompson, Director General, and Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, BBC; S4C, STV, Institute of Local Television
DEFENCE Subject: Strategic Lift Witnesses: Ministry of Defence officials
TRADE AND INDUSTRY Subject: developments with Airbus Witness: Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry
WELSH AFFAIRS Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales Witnesses: Jim Leng, Chairman, and Philippe Varin, Chief Executive, Corus; Michael Leahy OBE, General Secretary, Community
DEFENCE* Subject: UK operations in Afghanistan Witness: General David Richards CBE DSO, Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
HOME AFFAIRS* Subject: Future of the Home Office Witness: Rt Hon John Reid MP, Secretary for State for the Home Department
CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS Subject: (i) Public Guardianship Office (ii) Freedom of Information Follow Up Witnesses: (i) Richard Brook, Chief Executive, Public Guardianship Office; (i) and (ii) Rt Hon Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs
Wednesday 25 April
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Subject: Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council: Introductory Hearing Witness: Mr Edmund Wallis
WORK AND PENSIONS Subject: Social Fund Witness: Sir Richard Tilt, Social Fund Commissioner; Mr James Plaskitt MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions
TRADE AND INDUSTRY SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WOMEN AND WORK COMMISSION'S REPORT Subject: Implementation of the report of the Women and Work Commission Witness: Equal Opportunities Commission
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Subject: Global Security: Russia Witnesses: Dr Roy Allison and Professor Margot Light, London School of Economics and Dr Alex Pravda, Oxford University; Dr Derek Averre, University of Birmingham, Katinka Barysch, Centre for European Reform and Jackie Gower, King's College London
TREASURY SUB-COMMITTEE Subject: Progress on the efficiency programme in the Chancellor's departments Witnesses: The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, The Chartered Institute of Taxation and Child Poverty Action Group; PCS and FDA (at 3.00 p.m.); HM Revenue & Customs officials
TRANSPORT* Subject: Passengers' Experience of Air Travel Witnesses: easyJet, Flybe; British Airways, Virgin Atlantic; Silverjet
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Subject: Heritage Lottery Fund Witnesses: Carole Souter, Director, and Steve Willis, Director of Resources and Planning, Heritage Lottery Fund
Thursday 26 April
HEALTH* Subject: The Electronic Patient Record and its use Witnesses: Richard Granger, Director General of IT, NHS, Harry Cayton, National Director for the Patients and the Public, Department of Health, and Dr Gillian Braunold, National Clinical Lead for GPs, Connecting for Health; Dr Paul Cundy, Dr Martyn Thomas and Mr Andrew Hawker
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Subject: Public services: putting people first Witnesses: Shaping Our Lives, Mind, Age Concern, and Mencap; Mr David Boyle, New Economics Foundation, Mr Matthew Taylor, Royal Society of Arts, and Ms Sophia Parker, Demos

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
30 April - May 4 2007

Monday 30 April
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS* Subject: Pay modernisation in the NHS: the impact of the new consultants' contract Witnesses: David Nicholson CBE, Chief Executive, NHS, Nic Greenfield, Director of Workforce, Department of Health, Andrew Foster, Chief Executive, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust and Professor Hugo Mascie-Taylor, Interim Chief Executive, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	4.30 pm	Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Tuesday 1 May
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Subject: Investigating the oceans Witnesses: Professor Sir Howard Dalton, and Mr Mike Guymer, Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology, and Dr Philip Newton and Dr Mike Webb, Natural Environment Research Council; Professor Gideon Henderson (at 10.45 am)	9.30 am	Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
TREASURY Subject: Financial inclusion follow-up: saving for all and shorter term saving products Witnesses: Brian Pomeroy, Chair, Financial Inclusion Taskforce; Professor Elaine Kempson (at 10.20 am); National Consumer Council and Citizens Advice (at 10.55 am)	9.45 am	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
HOME AFFAIRS* Subject: A Surveillance Society? Witnesses: Mr Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, Mr David Smith, Deputy Commissioner, and Mr Jonathan Bamford, Assistant Commissioner	10.15 am	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Subject: Beyond Stern: Forecasting, Cost-Effectiveness and Climate Change Witnesses: Climate Change Capital; Professor Paul Ekins (at 11.00 am); Dr John Rhys and Mr Mike Parker (at 11.40 am)	10.20 am	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 2 May
WORK AND PENSIONS Subject: Benefits Simplification Witnesses: Fran Bennett, University of Oxford, Donald Hirsch, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Sue Royston, Citizens Advice	9.30 am	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
FOREIGN AFFAIRS* Subject: Global Security: Iran Witnesses: Dr Rosemary Hollis, Director of Research, Chatham House, and Sir Richard Dalton KCMG	2.30 pm	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
NORTHERN IRELAND AFFAIRS* Subject: The Northern Ireland Prison Service Witnesses: Prison Officers' Association, Northern Ireland; Prison Governors' Association, Northern Ireland (at 3.30 pm)	2.30 pm	Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Thursday 3 May
None

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