HOUSE OF LORDS COMMITTEES:
FORTHCOMING PUBLIC MEETINGS

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Tuesday 15 March

EUROPEAN UNION SUB COMMITTEE D     10.45am

Evidence will be heard from Mr Franc But, State Secretary of the Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture for Forestry and Food (MAFF); and Mr Dusan Vujandinovic, Head of EU Coordination and International Department of MAFF

BBC CHARTER RENEWAL SELECT COMMITTEE     3.30pm

Evidence will be heard from Mr Michael Grade, Chairman, BBC; and Mr Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE     3.45pm

Evidence will be heard on The Economics of Climate Change from Mr Adair Turner, Merrill Lynch and; Professor Michael Grubb, Imperial College

Wednesday 16 March

EUROPEAN UNION SUB COMMITTEE D         (a)11.00am, (b)11.45am

Evidence will be heard from Professor Michel Petit, Institut Agronomique de Mediterraneen de Montpellier and (b) Cllr Patricia Aston and Lisa Bremner, Policy and Public Affairs Officer, Local Government International Bureau; Sir Harry Studholme, Board Member of the South West Regional Development Agency; and Ms Fiona Bryant, National RDA Modernising Rural Delivery Co-ordinator, East of England Development Agency

Tuesday 22 March

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUB-COMMITTEE I (Scientific Aspects of Ageing)         (a) 4.10pm (b) 5.00pm

Evidence will be heard from (a) the Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry; Mr John Neilson, Director of the Science and Engineering Base Group, Office of Science and Technology; Charlotte Atkins MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport; and (b) Dr Stephen Ladyman MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE     3.45pm

Evidence will be heard from Professor Paul Ekins, Policy Studies Institute

Wednesday 23 March

EUROPEAN UNION SUB COMMITTEE D         (a) 11.00am (b) 11.45am

Evidence will be heard from (a) Mr Ben Bradshaw MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; and (b) witnesses tbc

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUB-COMMITTEE II (Energy Efficiency)         4.40pm

Evidence will be heard from the Lord Whitty, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Defra

Wednesday 6 April

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUB-COMMITTEE II (Energy Efficiency)         3.40pm

Evidence will be heard from Mr Steve Nancarrow, Managing Director, Inspector Home; Mr Nick Gooderson, Head of Standards and Qualifications, CITB Construction Skills; and Mrs Lindsay Gilespie, Development Director, SummitSkills