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:

Environmental Audit

Ian Pearson discharged; Mr Phil Woolas added

Select Committee Meetings
14 - 18 January 2008

For confirmation of committee meetings, venues and times see Select Committee home pages on the Internet (www.parliament.uk) or telephone the Committee Office general enquiry lines: Tel 020 7219 3267/4300

Monday 14 January

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Testing and Assessment Witnesses: Association of School and College Leaders, General Teaching Council for England and National Association of Head Teachers; Association of Teachers and Lecturers, National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers and National Union of Teachers

Joint Committee on Human Rights Subject: (i) Data Protection and Human Rights (ii) A British Bill of Rights Witnesses: (i) Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner (ii) Children's Rights Alliance for England, Unite the Union and the TUC

Public Accounts Subject: Use of office property by government departments Witnesses: Nigel Smith and Mike Burt, Office of Government Commerce, Jon Thompson, Department for Children, Schools and Families and Louise Tulett, HM Treasury

Tuesday 15 January

Environmental Audit Subject: Climate change and local, regional and devolved government Witnesses: Professor John Chesshire OBE, Chairman, Climate Change Commission, Councillor Paul Bettison, Chairman, Environment Board and Philip Mind, Senior Policy Consultant on Climate Change, Local Government Authority

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Subject: Construction Witnesses: Construction Clients' Group and BAA; Olympic Delivery Authority

Welsh Affairs Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales Witnesses: ITV Wales; National Union of Journalists

Scottish Affairs* Subject: Experience of the Scottish Elections Witnesses: Ron Gould and Michael Boda, Scottish Elections Review Team

Home Affairs Subject: Work of the Border and Immigration Agency Witnesses: Lin Homer, Chief Executive, and Emily Miles, Director, Case Resolution Directorate, Border and Immigration Agency

Wednesday 16 January

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Schools Commissioner and Schools Adjudicator Witnesses: Jim Knight MP, Minister for Schools and Learners and Sir Bruce Liddington, Schools Commissioner, Department for Children, Schools and Families; Dr Philip Hunter CBE, Chief Schools Adjudicator

Innovation, Universities and Schools Subject: Formation of DIUS Witnesses: Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State, and Ian Watmore, Permanent Secretary, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

European Scrutiny Subject: Draft Council Decision establishing the European Police Office (EUROPOL) Witnesses: Rt Hon Tony McNulty MP, Minister for Security, Counter-terrorism, Crime and Policing, Home Office

Procedure Subject: E-petitions Witnesses: Tom Loosemore, Digital Media Adviser and Tom Steinberg, MySociety

Transport Subject: Freight Transport Witnesses: Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Highways & Transportation, Professor Alan McKinnon and English Regional Development Agencies; Freight Transport Association, Association of International Couriers and Express Services, and Road Haulage Association; Nautilus UK and National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

Public Accounts Subject: Compensating victims of violent crime Witnesses: Sir Suma Chakrabarti KCB, Ministry of Justice, Carole Oatway, Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority and Peter Handcock, Tribunals Service

Treasury Sub Committee Subject: Counting the Population Witnesses: Mr Keith Dugmore, Demographic Decisions, Professor David Rhind, Statistics Commission, and Professor David Martin, Royal Statistical Society

Thursday 17 January

Innovation, Universities and Schools Subject: Funding for equivalent or lower level qualifications Witnesses: Professor Brenda Gourley, Open University, Professor David Latchman, Birkbeck College, Gemma Tumelty, NUS and Ms Sally Hunt, UCU; Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and Professor David Eastwood, Higher Education Funding Council for England

Health Subject: Modernising Medical Careers Witnesses: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Royal College of Surgeons, and Royal College of GPs; London Deanery, East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery, and South Yorkshire and South Humber Postgraduate Deanery

Public Administration Subject: Third Sector Commissioning Witnesses: Emmaus UK Foundation, Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation and Wai Yin Chinese Women Society; National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Association for Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations and Directory of Social Change

International Development Subject: Development Assistance in Insecure Environments: Afghanistan Witnesses: Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Secretary of State for International Development

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development (Quadrapartite) Subject: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2006, Quarterly Reports for 2007, Licensing Policy, Review of Legislation and Parliamentary Scrutiny Witnesses: Rt Hon Des Browne MP, Secretary of State for Defence, Desmond Bowen, Policy Director and Tony Pawson, Head, Defence Export Services, Ministry of Defence

Friday 18 January

None

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice]

All public select committee meetings are webcast Select committees marked with * will be taken by BBC Parliament Recorded information about forthcoming select and general committee meetings over the next two sitting days is available on:Tel 020 7219 2033. Please note: The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded, and the place altered without notice and Committees which sit at short notice may not be included in this list.

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
21 - 25 January 2008

Monday 21 January 2008

Public Accounts Subject: Report on the NHS Summarised Accounts 2006-07: Achieving financial balance Witnesses: David Nicholson CBE, Chief Executive and David Flory, Director General for NHS Finance, Performance and Operations, NHS

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Testing and Assessment Witnesses: Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, City & Guilds, Edexcel, and Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations

Innovation, Universities and Schools Subject: Science budget allocations Witnesses: Royal Astronomical Society, Institute of Physics, and Prospect; Research Councils UK, Science and Technology Facilities Council (at 5.00 pm)

Tuesday 22 January 2008

Justice Subject: Sentencing Guidelines Witnesses: Sir Igor Judge, President, Queen's Bench Division, and Head of Criminal Justice, and Nicola Padfield, University of Cambridge; Magistrates' Association and London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association (at 5.00 pm)

Treasury Subject: Financial Services Authority Annual Report 2006-07 Witnesses: Sir Callum McCarthy, Chairman and Hector Sants, Chief Executive, Financial Services Authority

Home Affairs Subject: Domestic Violence Witnesses: Association of Chief Police Officers; Crown Prosecution Service, Family Justice Council Domestic Violence Working Group, and National Probation Service (at 11.00 am)

Environmental Audit Subject: Climate change and local, regional and devolved government Witnesses: Hampshire County Council, Southwark Council and Association of North East Councils; Nottingham Declaration Partnership (at 11.20 am)

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Subject: The UK Construction Industry Witnesses: Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Minister of State for Competitiveness, Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, and Office of Government Commerce

Culture, Media and Sport* Subject: London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Witnesses: Jennie Price, Chief Executive, Sport England; Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for the Olympics and London, Cabinet Office, and Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (at 11.15 am)

Welsh Affairs Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales Witnesses: S4C; Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University (at 11.15 am)

Wednesday 23 January 2008

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Social Mobility Witnesses: Dr John Goldthorpe, Nuffield College, Oxford University, Professor Stephen Machin and Dr Jo Blanden, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics

Innovation, Universities and Schools Subject: Renewable electricity-generation technologies Witnesses: Institute of Physics, UK Energy Research Centre, British Wind Energy Association, and Renewable Energy Association; Research Councils UK, and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (at 10.15 am)

Work and Pensions Subject: Health and Safety Witnesses: Professor Frank Wright, University of Warwick, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and Chris Jackson; CBI, EEF and Federation of Master Builders (at 10.30 am)

Environmental Audit Sub-Committee On Environmental Information Subject: Environmental Labelling Witnesses: Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Treasury Sub Committee Subject: Counting the population Witnesses: Charlie Bean, Chief Economist, Bank of England and officials, and HM Treasury officials; and Local Government Association, Slough Borough Council, Islington Council, Manchester City Council and the NHS Confederation (at 3.30 pm)

Transport* Subject: (i) Network Rail engineering delays over the New Year period, (ii) Delivering a sustainable railway: a 30-year strategy for the railways? Witnesses: (i) Network Rail and Bechtel (ii) Network Rail, and the Office of Rail Regulation

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs* Subject: Flooding Witnesses: Sir Michael Pitt, Chair, 'Learning lessons from the 2007 floods Review'; Chairmen of Regional Flood Defence Committees (Midlands, Thames and Yorkshire) (at 4.00 pm)

Foreign Affairs Subject: Overseas Territories Witnesses: Mr Louis Olivier Bancoult, leader, Chagos Refugee Groups, and Mr Richard Gifford, Sheridans Solicitors

Public Accounts Subject: DEFRA: A progress update in resolving the difficulties in administering the Single Payment Scheme in England Witnesses: Mrs Helen Ghosh, Permanent Secretary, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Tony Cooper, Interim Chief Executive, Rural Payments Scheme

Thursday 24 January 2008

Health Subject: Modernising Medical Careers Witnesses: Professor Peter Rubin, Chair and Professor Neil Douglas, Board member, Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board, and Professor Sir Nick Wright, Warden, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry; Anne Rainsberry, Director of Workforce, NHS London, Dr Moira Livingston, Strategic Head of Workforce and Deputy Medical Director, NHS Northeast, and Sian Thomas, Deputy Director, NHS Employers (at 11.15 am)

Public Administration Subject: Lobbying Witnesses: Peter Facey, Unlock Democracy, Dr William Dinan and Professor David Miller, Spinwatch

Friday 25 January 2008

None

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice]

All public select committee meetings are webcast Select committees marked with * will be taken by BBC Parliament Recorded information about forthcoming select and standing committee meetings over the next two sitting days is available on:[Tel 020 7219 2033]. Please note: The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded, and the place altered without notice and Committees which sit at short notice may not be included in this list.