The Select Committee on Public Administration
The Select Committee on Public Administration
is appointed under Standing Order No. 146:
146.-(1) There shall be a select committee to examine
the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration,
of the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and
Wales and of the Parliamentary Ombudsman for Northern Ireland,
which are laid before this House, and matters in connection therewith,
and to consider matters relating to the quality and standards
of administration provided by civil service departments, and other
matters relating to the civil service; and the committee shall
consist of eleven Members.
(2) The committee shall have power -
(a) to send
for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment
of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from
time to time; and
(b) to appoint specialist advisers
to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate
matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference.
(3) Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member
nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it
for the remainder of the Parliament.
(4) The committee shall have power to appoint a sub-committee,
which shall have power to send for person, papers and records,
to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn
from place to place, and to report to the committee from time
to time.
(5) The committee shall have power to report from
time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee.
(6) The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.
The present membership of the Committee is as follows:[1]
Mr Kevin Brennan (Labour, Cardiff West)
Annette Brooke (Liberal Democrat, Mid Dorset
and Poole North)
Mr David Heyes (Labour,
Ashton under Lyne)
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative, Bridgewater)
Mr John Lyons (Labour,
Strathkelvin and Bearsden)
Mr Gordon Prentice (Labour, Pendle)
Mr Anthony Steen (Conservative, Totnes)
Mr Michael Trend (Conservative, Windsor)
Mr Brian White (Labour, Milton Keynes North
East)
Mr Anthony D Wright (Labour, Great Yarmouth)
Tony Wright (Labour, Cannock Chase)
On 18 July 2001, the Committee elected Tony
Wright as its Chairman.
The Committee may meet at any time (except when
Parliament is prorogued or dissolved) and at any place within
the United Kingdom. The Committee may meet concurrently with the
European Scrutiny Committee (or any of its sub-committees) for
the purpose of deliberating or of taking evidence. The Committee
may exchange documents and evidence with this committee.
The Reports and evidence of the Committee are
published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All
publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on
the internet at www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/pubahome.htm.
A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is
at the end of this volume.
All correspondence should be addressed to The
Clerk of the Select Committee on Public Administration, Committee
Office First Floor, Portcullis House, House of Commons, London
SW1A 2LW. The telephone number for general inquiries is: 020 7219
3284; the Committee's e-mail address is: pubadmincom@parliament.uk.
1 Appointed on 16th July 2001. Back
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