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:

None

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
3 - 5 December 2008

Wednesday 3 December

None

Thursday 4 December

Treasury
Subject: The 2008 Pre-Budget Report
Witnesses: Robert Chote, Institute for Fiscal Studies, John Whiting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Roger Bootle, Capital Economics, Simon Kirby, National Institute of Economic and Social Research and Professor Colin Talbot, Manchester Business School; Mike Brewer, Institute for Fiscal Studies, Teresa Perchard, Citizens Advice, Peter Kenway, New Policy Institute and Mervyn Kohler, Help the Aged

Friday 5 December

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[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice]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
Please note: The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded, and the place altered without notice and Committees which sit at short notice may not be included in this list.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
3 - 5 December 2008

Monday 8 December

Communities and Local Government*
Subject: The Balance of Power: central and local government
Witnesses: Professor George Jones OBE and Professor John Stewart; Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Oxford University, and Professor Tony Travers, London School of Economics (at 5.00 pm); Rt Hon Lord Heseltine (at 5.35 pm); Baroness Hamwee and Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP (at 5.50 pm)

4:20pm

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Witnesses: Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; National Energy Action, and National Right to Fuel Campaign (at 5.15 pm)

4:30pm

Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Public Accounts
Subject: Primary Schools: Teaching mathematics
Witnesses: David Bell, Permanent Secretary, Department for Children, Schools and Families

4:30pm

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Tuesday 9 December

Treasury Subject: Pre-Budget Report 2008 Witnesses: HM Treasury	9:45am	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Environmental Audit Subject: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation Witnesses: Johan Eliasch, Prime Minister's Special Representative on Deforestation and Clean Energy, Jonathan Brearley, Director, and Graham Floater, Project Team Coordinator, Eliasch Review, Office of Climate Change; Charlie Kronick, Senior Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace, and Robin Webster, Senior Campaigner, Friends of the Earth (at 11.10 am)	10:20am	Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
Business and Enterprise Subject: Pub Companies Witnesses: British Beer and Pub Association, Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers, and British Institute of Innkeeping; Punch Taverns, and Enterprise Inns (at 11.30 am)	10:30am	Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Culture, Media and Sport* Subject: London 2012 Games: Lessons from Beijing Witnesses: Lord Coe, Chairman, and Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, and John Armitt, Chairman, and David Higgins, Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority; Charles Allen, Chairman, and Jonathan Edwards, Deputy Chairman, Nations and Regions Group, and Andy Worthington, Chairman, North West Steering Group for the 2012 Games (at 11.30 am); Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for the Olympics, Cabinet Office, and Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (12 noon)	10:30am	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Defence* Subject: Defence Equipment Witnesses: Quentin Davies MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence	10:30am	Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Home Affairs
Subject: Human Trafficking
Witnesses: Metropolitan Police; London Councils, and Association of Directors of Children's Services (at 11.15 am); Alan Campbell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, and Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP, Leader of the House of Commons (at 11.45 am)

10:30am The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Welsh Affairs
Subject: The provision of cross-border public services for Wales
Witnesses: Cardiff International Airport, Manchester Airport and Martin Evans, University of Glamorgan

10:30am Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Joint Committee on Human Rights
Subject: Policing and Protest
Witnesses: Vernon Coaker MP, Minister of State, Home Office

1:45pm Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster

Public Administration
Subject: Equitable Life
Witnesses: Ian Pearson MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury

2:00pm The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Justice
Subject: Justice Reinvestment
Witnesses: Jonathan Aitken, Chair, Prison Reform Working Group, Centre for Social Justice, and Lord Dubs, Chair, Prison Policy Group; Tim Godwin, Assistant Commisioner, Metropolitan Police, and David Scott, Chair, Chief Officers of Probation (at 5.00 pm)

4:15pm

Wednesday 10 December

Children, Schools and Families* Subject: The Work of Ofsted Witnesses: Christine Gilbert CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills, Ofsted	9:30am	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
Work and Pensions Subject: DWP's commissioning strategy and the employment programme market Witnesses: Rt Hon Tony McNulty MP, Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions	9:30am	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Justice Subject: Crown Dependencies, and Legal Aid Witnesses: Lord Bach, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice	10:30am	Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Scottish Affairs* Subject: Implications for the Scottish economy of the current economic climate Witnesses: CBI Scotland; Professor David Bell, University of Stirling (at 2.45 pm); Scottish Trades Union Congress (at 3.15 pm); Scottish Chambers of Commerce (at 3.45 pm)	2:15pm	Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Culture, Media and Sport Subject: BBC Commercial Operations Witnesses: Lord Carter of Barnes CBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport	2:30pm	21
European Scrutiny Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents Witnesses: None	2:30pm	Committee Room 19, Palace of Westminster
Treasury* Subject: Pre-Budget Report 2008 Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer	2:30pm	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Transport
Subject: The enforcement activities of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Witnesses: Traffic Commissioners; Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (at 3.30 pm); Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport (at 4.15 pm)

2:45pm Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Witnesses: E.ON UK, RWE nPower, and Centrica; Ofgem (at 3.45 pm)

3:00pm Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Foreign Affairs
Subject: Developments in the European Union
Witnesses: Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Matthew Rycroft, Director EU, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

3:30pm The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Public Accounts
Subject: The procurement of goods and services by HM Prison Service
Witnesses: Phil Wheatley, Director General, National Offender Management Service, and Vincent Godfrey, Director of Procurement, Ministry of Justice

3:30pm Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Thursday 11 December

Health
Subject: Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2008
Witnesses: David Nicholson CBE, NHS Chief Executive, Hugh Taylor CB, Permanent Secretary, David Flory, Director General, NHS Finance, Performance and Operations, and Richard Douglas, Director General, Finance, and Chief Operating Officer, Department of Health

10:00am

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Public Administration
Subject: Work of the Cabinet Office
Witnesses: Sir Gus O'Donnell KCB, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service

10:00am

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House