HOUSE OF LORDS SELECT COMMITTEES:
FORTHCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS

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Monday 26 November

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE (i) 4.30pm, (ii) 5.15pm

SUB-COMMITTEE B (Energy, Industry and Transport)

Evidence will be heard on Security of Energy Supplies in the EU, from:

(i) Mr Charles Naylor, Director of Corporate Affairs, and

Dr Colin Lyle, Director of European Policy, Centrica; and

(ii) Mr John Wybrew, Executive Director, and Mr Chris Bolt, Group Director, Regulation and Public Policy, the Lattice Group

ANIMALS IN SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES COMMITTEE 3.30pm

Evidence will be heard from Professor Iain FH Purchase, The Expert Group on Efficient Regulation, and

Professor Nancy Rothwell, UK Life Sciences Committee

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 4.15pm

Evidence will be heard on Globalisation, from Mr Andrew Crockett, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements

SUB-COMMITTEE D (Environment, Agriculture, Public Health and Consumer Protection)

Evidence will be heard on Strategy For a Future Chemicals Policy, from

the Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP, Minister for the Environment

Evidence will be heard on Globalisation, from Mr Ignazio Visco, Head, Economics Department and

Chief Economist, Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and Development

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 4.30pm

SUB-COMMITTEE B (Energy, Industry and Transport)

Evidence will be heard on Security of Energy Supplies in the EU, from

Mr Nick Baldwin, Chief Executive, and Dr Paul Golby, Powergen

ANIMALS IN SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES COMMITTEE 3.30pm

Evidence will be heard from Sir George Radder, Chief Executive, and Professor Stephen Brown,

Medical Research Council, and Professor Ray Baker, Chief Executive, Biotechnology and Biological

Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (i) 4.15pm, (ii) 5.10pm

Evidence will be heard on Globalisation, from:

(i) Mr Martin Temple, Director General of the Engineering Employers' Federation, Mr Steven Radley,

EEF Chief Economist, and Ms Lee Hopley, EEF Economist; and

(ii) Mr Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 10.35am

SUB-COMMITTEE F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs)

Evidence will be heard on Mobility within European labour markets, from

Michel Rousselot, President, Eurocadres, Paris

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 10.40am

SUB-COMMITTEE D (Environment, Agriculture, Public Health and Consumer Protection)

Evidence will be heard on Strategy For a Future Chemicals Policy, from

the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 4.30pm

SUB-COMMITTEE E (Law and Institutions)

Evidence will be heard on The Commission's Communication on European contract law, from

Professor Hugh Beale, The Law Commission

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 10.45am

SUB-COMMITTEE C (Common Foreign and Security Policy)

Evidence will be heard on Recent developments in the Common European Security and Defence Policy,

from Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE (i) 4.30pm; (ii) 5.15pm

SUB-COMMITTEE B (Energy, Industry and Transport)

Evidence will be heard on Security of Energy Supplies in the EU, from

(i) Mr Hugh Collum, Chairman, Mr Norman Askew, Chief Executive, and

Dr Sue Ion, Executive Director of Research & Technology, BNFL; and

(ii) Lord Haslam

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 10.45am

SUB-COMMITTEE A (Economic and Financial Affairs, Trade and External Relations)

Evidence will be heard on EU aid to the Balkans, from

the Rt Hon Clare Short MP, Secretary of State, International Development

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS 11.15am

Evidence will be heard on Globalisation from Professor Ronald McKinnon, Stanford University

EUROPEAN UNION SELECT COMMITTEE 4.30pm

Evidence will be heard on the forthcoming Spanish Presidency, from

Ram›n de Miguel, Minister of State for European Affairs

SUB-COMMITTEE F (Social Affairs, Education and Home Affairs)

Evidence will be heard on Mobility within European labour markets, from

Professor Christoph Schmidt, Heidelberg University

CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE 4.15pm

Evidence will be heard from the Lord Butler of Brockwell GCB CVO, Master, University College, Oxford (Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service 1988-98)

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 10.45am

SUB-COMMITTEE A (Economic and Financial Affairs, Trade and External Relations)

Evidence will be heard on EU aid to the Balkans, from

Bodo Hombach, Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe

EUROPEAN UNION COMMITTEE 10.45am

SUB-COMMITTEE C (Common Foreign and Security Policy)

Evidence will be heard on Recent developments in the Common European Security and Defence Policy,

from General Klaus Naumann