SELECT COMMITTEES

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Change in Membership

Standards and Privileges: Sir Archibald Hamilton discharged, Sir David Mitchell appointed. Mr John MacGregor added.

SELECT COMMITTEES:
PUBLIC MEETINGS 3 - 7 MARCH 1997

MONDAY 3 MARCH

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

Subject: Governance and Management of Overseas Activities at the Swansea Institute of Higher Education

Witnesses: Mrs R Lomox, Permanent Secretary, Welsh Office, professor J Andrews, Chief Executive, Mr Richard Hirst, Director of Finance, Welsh Funding Councils

TUESDAY 4 MARCH

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Subject: Arms Control

Witness: Mr David Davis MP, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT SUB-COMMITTEE

Subject: Social Costs and their Effects on Employment

Witnesses: Representatives from Nissan

WEDNESDAY 5 MARCH

ENVIRONMENT

Subject: The Work of the Health and Safety Executive

Witness: Sir Paul Beresford MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Department of the Environment

TRANSPORT

Subject: Driving Standards Agency

Witnesses: Driving Standards Agency

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

Subject: 1) Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust: Progress in Regenerating Housing Estates 2) HMSO: 1995 Operating Accounts

Witnesses: 1) Mr A Turnbull, CB, CVO, Permanent Secretary, Mr M Wilkinson, Regeneration Directorate, Department of the Environment Mr M Wilson, Chief Executive, Mr D Foster, Director of Finance, Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust 2) Mr M Lynn, Former Chief Executive, The Stationery Office

TREASURY

Subject: Public Expenditure Survey and Spending Objectives

Witnesses: Rt Hon William Waldegrave MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury and officials of HM Treasury

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Subject: Public Expenditure

Witness: Sir J Coles, KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Subject: Sheep Cloning

Witnesses: Mrs R Deech, Chairman, Mrs S McCarthy, Chief Executive, Mr G Miles, Legal Adviser, Mr D Thorne, Licensing Manager, Mr M Salmon, Policy and Finance Manager, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Subject: Research Councils

Witnesses: Sir D Plastow, Chairman, and Professor G Radda, Chief Executive, Medical Research Council; Dr A Rudge, Chairman and Professor R Brook, Chief Executive, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

THURSDAY 6 MARCH

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Subject: Sheep Cloning

Witnesses: Prof Bulfield, Director and Dr I Wilmut, Researcher, the Roslin Institute, and Dr A Colman, Managing Director of PPL Therapeutics

SELECT COMMITTEES:
FORTHCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS 10 - 14 MARCH 1997

MONDAY 10 MARCH

TREASURY 4.15 pm, Room 8**

Subject: Personal Investment Authority

Witnesses: Chairman and Chief Executive of the Personal Investment Authority

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 4.30 pm, Room 15**

Subject: Seizure of Drug Traffickers' Assets

Witnesses: Mrs V Strachan CB, Chairman, and Mr M Eland, Commissioner, HM Customs and Excise

TUESDAY 11 MARCH

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT SUB-COMMITTEE 4.45 pm, Room 8**

Subject: Employment Effects of the Proposed Closure of the Gallaher Factory in Hyde

Witnesses: Baroness Denton of Wakefield, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office

WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH

DEFENCE 10.15 am, Room 16

Subject: Defence Statutory Instruments

Witnesses: Ministry of Defence Officials

TRADE AND INDUSTRY 10.30 am, Room 15

Subject: Newspaper Distribution

Witnesses: Association of Newspaper and Magazine Wholesalers; Committee for Diversity and Pluralism (at 11.10 am approx); Multiple Newsagents Association and National Federation of Retail Newsagents

(at 11.30 am approx)

TRANSPORT 4.00 pm, Room 17

Subject: Bus Employees' Superannuation Trust

Witnesses: Transport and General Workers' Union; Mr John Watts MP, Minister for Railways and Roads, and Department of Transport officials (at 4.30 pm approx)

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 4.15 pm, Room 15**

Subject: Inland Revenue: 1995/96 Account Matters

Witnesses: Sir A Battishill GCB, Chairman, Mr Michael Johns, Director, Operations Division, Mr R Martin, Principal Finance Officer, Mr D Smith, Director, Self Assessment and New Office Structure Programme Offices

TRADE AND INDUSTRY 4.30 pm, Room 16

Subject: Newspaper Distribution

Witnesses: Newspaper Publishers Association; Mr J Bridgeman DL, Director General of Fair Trading (at 5.10 pm approx); Mr John Taylor MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs, Department of Trade and Industry (at 5.50 pm approx)

* The decision of a committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice, and committees which sit at short notice may not be included in this list

** These Committees are expected to be televised and shown later on the Parliamentary Channel

DEPARTMENTAL SELECT COMMITTEES: PROVISIONAL FORTHCOMING MEETINGS

Note: Details are subject to change. Readers are advised to refer to the FORTHCOMING MEETINGS section for confirmation of time and date.