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:

Treasury:

Mr Philip Dunne discharged; Mr Stephen Crabb added

Select Committee Meetings
17 - 21 November 2008

Monday 17 November

Children, Schools and Families
Subject: National Curriculum
Witnesses: Cambridge Assessment, QCA, and Specialist Schools and Academies Trust

Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills
Subject: Geo-engineering
Witnesses: Dr Phil Williamson, Research Councils UK, Professor Nick Jenkins, Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr Tim Fox, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and Professor Steve Rayner, University of Oxford; Rt Hon Lord Drayson, Minister of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, and Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Communities and Local Government
Subject: The Balance of Power: central and local government
Witnesses: Local Government Information Unit, New Local Government Network and London Councils; Ann Keen MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health, and Vernon Coaker MP, Minister of State, Home Office; NHS Confederation and Association of Chief Police Officers

Public Accounts
Subject: Renewing the physical infrastructure of the English further education colleges
Witnesses: Ian Watmore, Permanent Secretary, and Susan Pember OBE, Director, Further Education and Skills, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, and Mark Haysom, Chief Executive, Learning and Skills Council

Tuesday 18 November

Treasury
Subject: Banking Crisis - Nationalised banks
Witnesses: Richard Pym, Chief Executive, and Rod Kent, Chairman, Bradford and Bingley; Gary Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer, and Ron Sandler CBE, Non-Executive Chairman, Northern Rock

Environmental Audit
Subject: Reducing CO2 and other emissions from shipping
Witnesses: Witnesses: Dr Alice Bows, Tyndall Senior Research Fellow, and Dr Terry Barker, Programme Leader, Integrating Frameworks, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; Gillian Reynolds, Principal Environment and Sustainability Adviser, Lloyd's Register, and Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering; Association of British Ports and Port of London Authority

Business and Enterprise
Subject: Pub Companies
Witnesses: Fair Pint Campaign, Federation of Small Businesses, and Paul Daly; Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, David Morgan, and Simon Clarke

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Commercial Operations of the BBC
Witnesses: Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman, BBC Trust, and Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC; John Smith, Chief Executive, and Etienne De Villiers, Non-Executive Chairman, BBC Worldwide, and Zarin Patel, Director of Finance, and Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer, BBC Defence
Subject: Defence Equipment
Witnesses: Defence Industries Council, Society of British Aerospace Companies, Defence Manufacturers Association and BAE Systems plc

Home Affairs
Subject: (i) Monitoring of UK Border Agency (ii) Security Industry Authority
Witnesses: (i) UK Border Agency, and the Independent Monitor (ii) Security Industry Authority

International Development
Subject: DFID and China
Witnesses: Professor Stephen Chan, School of Oriental and African Studies, and Dr Jing Gu, Institute of Development Studies

Welsh Affairs
Subject: The provision of cross-border public services for Wales
Witnesses: Lord Adonis, Minister of State, Department for Transport; Network Rail

Joint Committee on Human Rights
Subject: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Witnesses: Jonathan Shaw MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions

Justice
Subject: Justice Reinvestment
Witnesses: Chief Officers of Probation, and Prison Governors' Association; Howard League for Penal Reform, CLINKS and Local Government Information Unit; General Lord Ramsbotham GCB, CBE

Wednesday 19 November

Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills
Subject: Engineering in Government
Witnesses: Professor David Fisk, Imperial College London, Professor Michael Kelly, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, and Professor Wendy Hall, Member, Council for Science and Technology; Lord Broers and Professor Christopher Snowden, Royal Academy of Engineering

Work and Pensions
Subject: DWP IT Procurement
Witnesses: Joe Harley, IT Director General and CIO Corporate IT, Dean James, Corporate IT Chief Operating Officer, and Malcolm Whitehouse, Group Applications Director, Department for Work and Pensions

Health
Subject: Health Inequalities
Witnesses: Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State, and Hugh Taylor CB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health

Scottish Affairs
Subject: Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
Witnesses: Lord Davidson of Glen Clova QC, Advocate General for Scotland

Foreign Affairs
Subject: Global Security: Non-Proliferation
Witnesses: Mr Daniel Feakes, University of Sussex, Dr Brian Jones, Southampton University, and Mr Nicolas Sims, London School of Economics

Treasury
Subject: Banking Crisis - Executive remuneration
Witnesses: Carol Arrowsmith, Deloitte, Ronnie Fox, Principal, Fox Law Firm, Peter Hahn, Sir John Cass Business School, and Charles Cotton, Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development; Brendan Barber, Secretary-General, TUC, Peter Montagnon, ABI, Jonathon Taylor, LIBA, and Miles Templeman, Director-General, Institute of Directors

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Waste Strategy for England 2007
Witnesses: ASDA, John Lewis Partnership and Brecknell Willis; Bovis Lend Lease and Constructing Excellence

Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Cross-border co-operation
Witnesses: HM Revenue and Customs

Public Accounts
Subject: UK's future nuclear deterrent capability
Witnesses: Sir Bill Jeffrey KCB, Permanent Under Secretary of State, Dr Paul Hollinshead OBE, Director of Strategic Requirement, Guy Lester, Director of General Equipment, and Rear Admiral A D H Mathews CB, Director General, Submarines, Ministry of Defence

Thursday 20 November

Health
Subject: Patient Safety
Witnesses: Professor Richard Thomson, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Newcastle, and Professor Alastair Gray, Professor of Health Economics, University of Oxford; Mr Martin Bromiley, Chairman of the Clinical Human Factors Group, Ms Josephine Ocloo, World Health Organization Patient Safety Champion, and Mrs Clare Bowen

Public Administration
Subject: Official Statistics
Witnesses: Sir Michael Scholar KCB, Chair, Karen Dunnell, Chief Executive, and Richard Alldritt, Head of Assessment, UK Statistics Authority

Home Affairs*
Subject: Draft Immigration and Citizenship Bill
Witnesses: Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State, Home Office

Business and Enterprise
Subject: Creating a higher value-added economy
Witnesses: Technical Strategy Board

Friday 21 November

None

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Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings

24 - 28 November 2008

Monday 24 November

Tuesday 25 November

Home Affairs Subject: Knife Crime Witnesses: Dr Bob Golding, and Policy Exchange; Professor Karim Brohi, Trauma and Emergency Care, Barts and the London NHS Trust (at 11.15 am)	10:30am	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
Welsh Affairs Subject: The provision of cross-border public services for Wales Witnesses: ASLEF, and RMT; Freight Transport Association (at 11.15 am)	10:30am	Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
Joint Committee on Human Rights Subject: Policing and Protest Witnesses: Acting Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison MBE, Metropolitan Police, Deputy Chief Constable Sue Sim, Association of Chief Police Officers, and Constable Neil Hickey, Police Federation of England and Wales	1:45pm	5
Justice Subject: Justice Reinvestment Witnesses: Professor Ian Loader, Oxford University, and Malcolm Dean; Nick Herbert MP and David Howarth MP (at 5.15 pm)	4:15pm	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Wednesday 26 November

Thursday 27 November

None

Friday 28 November

None