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:

Children, Schools and Families

Stephen Williams discharged; Paul Holmes added

Public Accounts

Annette Brooke discharged; Mr Paul Burstow added

Scottish Affairs

Danny Alexander discharged; Mr Alistair Carmichael added

Select Committee Meetings
28 January - 1 February 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 28 January 2008

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Testing and Assessment Witnesses: Professor Steve Smith, Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter, Professor Madeleine Atkins, Vice-Chancellor, Coventry University, and Susan Anderson, and Richard Wainer, Confederation of British Industry; Officials from the Department for Children, Schools and Families

Innovations, Universities and Skills Sub-Committee on the Copyright Tribunal Subject: Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society Witnesses: Phonographic Performance Limited, and the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance; Intellectual Property Office and HH Judge Fysh QC

Treasury Sub-Committee Subject: Counting the population Witnesses: Karen Dunnell, National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales and Office for National Statistics officials; and Sir Michael Scholar, Chair, Statistics Board

Joint Committee on Human Rights Subject: A British Bill of Rights Witnesses: Professor Chris Sidoti, Chair of the Bill of Rights Forum (Northern Ireland) and Professor Brice Dickson, Queen's University Belfast; Professor Graham Smith, University of Southampton

Public Accounts Subject: Management of large business Corporation Tax Witnesses: Dave Hartnett CB, Acting Chairman, HM Revenue and Customs

Tuesday 29 January 2008

Regulatory Reform Subject: Regulatory Reform and the Better Regulation Executive Witnesses: William Sargent, Executive Chair and Jitinder Kohli, Chief Executive of the Better Regulation Executive

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Subject: Post Office Closure Programme Witnesses: National Federation of Sub-Postmasters; Postwatch

Culture, Media and Sport* Subject: (i) Tourism (ii) London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Witnesses: (i) Grant Hearn, Chief Executive and Greg Dawson, Director of Communications, Travelodge; Professor Victor Middleton and Professor John Fletcher (ii) Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for the Olympics and London, Cabinet Office

Defence Subject: Defence Equipment Witnesses: General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB, CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel, David Gould CB, Chief Operating Officer, Defence Equipment & Support, and Lieutenant General Dick Applegate OBE, Chief of Materiel (Land), Ministry of Defence

Home Affairs Subject: (i) Serious Organised Crime Agency (ii) Domestic Violence Witnesses: (i) Sir Stephen Lander KCB, Chair, and Bill Hughes, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency (ii) Commander Steve Allen, Association of Chief Police Officers, Nazir Afzal, Crown Prosecution Service, and Shazia Qayum

Welsh Affairs Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales Witnesses: Skillset Screen Academy Wales and TAC; Ofcom

Scottish Affairs Subject: Employment and Skills for the Defence Industry in Scotland Witnesses: Thales UK, Babcock and BAE Systems

Justice Subject: Devolution: a decade on Witnesses: Rt Hon Des Browne MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, and David Middleton, Head of Department, Scotland Office

Wednesday 30 January 2008

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Diversity of School Provision Witnesses: Dr Steve Gibbons, Research Associate, London School of Economics and Tom Benton, Senior Statistician, and Simon Rutt, Deputy Head of Statistics, National Foundation for Educational Research

Innovation, Universities and Schools Subject: Renewable Electricity-generation Technologies Witnesses: Energy Research Partnership, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Marine Institute for Innovation, Regional Development Agency , EDF energy, and RWE npower

Modernisation of the House of Commons Subject: Regional Accountability Witnesses: Tom Riordan, Chair of Chief Executives of the RDA Network and Chief Executive, Yorkshire Forward, Abby Johnson Brennan, Deputy Chief Executive, East Midlands Development Agency, Jamie Merrick, Head of Strategy, East of England Development Agency

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Subject: Flooding Witnesses: National Farmers' Union and Natural England; Burton Joyce Residents' Association, Strensall & Towthorpe Parish Council and West Lindsey District Council; Steve Batty, Malcolm Coward and Paul Rouse

Procedure Subject: e-Petitions Witnesses: Professor Jonathan Drori CBE, Director, Changing Media Ltd, Peter Riddell and Laura Miller, Hansard Society, and Kathy Buckner and Ella Taylor-Smith, International Teledemocracy Centre, Napier University

Transport* Subject: Department for Transport Annual Report 2007 Witnesses: Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State and Robert Devereux, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport

Northern Ireland Affairs Subject: Political developments in Northern Ireland Witnesses: Rt Hon Shaun Woodward MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Public Accounts Subject: The Cancellation of Bicester Accommodation Centre Witnesses: Sir David Normington KCB, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, and Lin Homer, Chief Executive, Border and Immigration Agency

Thursday 31 January 2008

Public Administration Subject: Lobbying Witnesses: John Greenway MP, Nick Harvey MP and Rt Hon Ian McCartney MP

Welsh Affairs Subject: The proposed Legislative Competence Order in Council on charging for non-residential social Care Witnesses: Huw Irranca-Davies MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office, and officials

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform* Subject: Energy Prices Witnesses: Malcolm Wicks MP, Minister of State for Energy, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

International Development Subject: Iraq Witnesses: Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Secretary of State for International Development

Friday 1 February 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.

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
4 - 8 February 2008

Monday 4 February

Work and Pensions
Subject: Health and Safety
Witnesses: Prospect and UCATT; GMB and TUC (at 5.15 p.m.)

4:15pm Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Flooding
Witnesses: Central Networks and National Grid; Environment Agency (at 5.00 p.m.)

4:30pm The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Public Accounts*
Subject: Progress in tackling benefit fraud
Witnesses: Sir Leigh Lewis KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions 4:30pm Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Tuesday 5 February

Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform*
Subject: The Post Office Closure Programme
Witnesses: Communication Workers Union; Post Office Ltd (at 10.30 a.m.); Pat McFadden MP, Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (at 11.30 a.m.)

9:45am Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Tourism
Witnesses: VisitBritain and VisitEngland; Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (at 11.30 a.m.)

10:30am The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Welsh Affairs
Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales
Witnesses: BBC Wales; Tinopolis PLC and Design Humanities, NEWI (at 11.15 a.m.)

10:30am Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Home Affairs*
Subject: Human Trafficking
Witnesses: Anti-Slavery International 11am The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Wednesday 6 February

Children, Schools and Families
Subject: Children 'under the radar'
Witnesses: Dr Jo Aldridge, Loughborough University, Kathy Evans, The Children's Society and John Reacroft, Barnardo's

9:30am The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Modernisation of the House of Commons
Subject: Regional Accountability
Witnesses: South East Regional Assembly, East of England Regional Assembly, North East Assembly, Yorkshire and Humber Regional Assembly, and Nigel Rudd, East Midlands Regional Assembly; Local Government Association (at 10.15 a.m.)

9:35am The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Foreign Affairs
Subject: Overseas Territories
Witnesses: Hon Joe Bossano MP, Leader of the Gibraltar Opposition

2:30pm The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Treasury Sub Committee
Subject: Counting the population
Witnesses: Angela Eagle MP, Exchequer Secretary, HM Treasury

2:30pm

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Transport
Subject: Freight Transport
Witnesses: PD Ports Ltd, Peel Ports, British Ports Association and UK Mayor Ports Group; Network Rail, Freight on Rail and English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (at 3.30 p.m.); British Waterways, Sea and Water, Port of London Authority and GPS Marine Contractors Ltd (at 4.15 p.m.)

2:45pm Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Public Accounts
Subject: Making changes in operational PFI projects
Witnesses: John Kingman, Second Permanent Secretary, and Gordon McKechnie, Head of PFI Policy, HM Treasury, and James Stewart, Chief Executive, Partnerships UK

3:30pm Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Northern Ireland Affairs*
Subject: Policing and Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland
Witnesses: Sir Hugh Orde, Chief Constable, and Alistair Finlay, Assistant Chief Constable, Crime Support Department, Police Service of Northern Ireland

4:15pm Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs*
Subject: Flooding
Witnesses: Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State for the Environment, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 4:45pm The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Thursday 7 February

Health
Subject: Dental Services
Witnesses: Challenge, and John Taylor, former Chief Executive of the Dental Practice Board for England and Wales; Dr Barry Cockcroft, Chief Dental Officer, Department of Health (at 11.00 a.m.) 10am The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Public Administration
Subject: Lobbying
Witnesses: Rod Cartwright, Public Relations Consultants Association, Gill Morris, Association of Professional Political Consultants and Lionel Zetter, Chartered Institute of Public Relations 10am The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House