Home Affairs Committee
The Home Affairs Committee is appointed by the House
of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy
of the Home Office and its associated public bodies; the administration
and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury
Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the
Serious Fraud Office.
Current membership
Mr John Denham MP (Labour, Southampton, Itchen)
(Chairman)
Janet Anderson MP (Labour, Rossendale and Darwen)
Mr James Clappison MP (Conservative, Hertsmere)
Mrs Claire Curtis-Thomas MP (Labour, Crosby)
Mrs Janet Dean MP (Labour, Burton)
Mr Gwyn Prosser MP (Labour, Dover)
Bob Russell MP (Liberal Democrat, Colchester)
Mr Marsha Singh MP (Labour, Bradford West)
Mr John Taylor MP (Conservative, Solihull)
Miss Ann Widdecombe MP (Conservative, Maidstone
and The Weald)
David Winnick MP (Labour, Walsall North)
Powers
The Committee is one of the departmental select committees,
the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders,
principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet
via www.parliament.uk.
Publications
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/parliamentary_committees/home_affairs_committee.cfm.
A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is
at the back of this volume.
Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are Dr Robin James
(Clerk), Mr Mark Etherton (Second Clerk), Miss Jane Gordon (Committee
Legal Specialist), Mr Alexander Horne (Committee Legal Specialist),
Mr Ian Thomson (Committee Assistant), Mrs Carolyn Bowes (Chief
Office Clerk) and Mrs Melanie Barklem (Secretary).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London
SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219
3276; the Committee's email address is homeaffcom@parliament.uk
.
Footnotes
In the footnotes of this Report, references to oral
evidence are indicated by 'Q' followed by the question number.
References to written evidence are indicated by the page number
as in 'Ev 12'.
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