Select Committees

A complete list of Select Committee membership and a Factsheet (P2) on the work of Select Committees is available on request from the House of Commons Information Office. The list and Factsheet are also on the Parliament website at:

http://www.parliament.uk/factsheets

An index to the Select Committee home pages together with links to further pages containing information about their work and publications is on the Parliament website at: http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/cmsel.htm

Select Committee Meetings
21 - 24 March 2005

Monday 21 March

TREASURY
Subject: Budget 2005
Witnesses: Mr Martin Weale; Mr Jon Whiting; Mr David Walton; Professor Peter Spencer, and Mr Robert Chote; HM Treasury officials

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: HOUSING, PLANNING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS URBAN AFFAIRS SUB-COMMITTEE
Subject: Coalfield Communities: a follow-up
Witnesses: Coalfield Communities Campaign; English Partnerships; Yvette Cooper MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
Subject: Department of Health: Tackling cancer: improving the patient journey
Witnesses: Sir Nigel Crisp KCB, Chief Executive, Department of Health and Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director

Tuesday 22 March

TREASURY
Subject: Budget 2005
Witness: Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer

Wednesday 23 March

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Subject: DFID Chief Scientific Adviser: Introductory Session
Witness: Professor Gordon Conway, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
Subject: Department of Health: The NHS Cancer Plan: A progress report
Witnesses: Sir Nigel Crisp KCB, Chief Executive, Department of Health and Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director

Thursday 24 March

TREASURY
Subject: February 2005 Inflation Report
Witnesses: Mr Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England and Members of the Monetary Policy Committee

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
4 -- 7 April 2005

Monday 4 April

EUROPEAN SCRUTINY
Subject: EU Policies on "Justice, Freedom and Security"
Witness: Mr Franco Frattini, European Commissioner

4.20 p.m.

19

Tuesday 5 April

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER: HOUSING, PLANNING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS URBAN AFFAIRS SUB-COMMITTEE
Subject: Coalfield Communities: a follow-up
Witnesses: Lord Warner, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health; Rt Hon John Prescott MP, Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State (at approximately 10.00 a.m.)

9.30 a.m.

15

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT
Subject: Community Sport
Witnesses: (tbc)

10.45 a.m.

The Thatcher Room,
Portcullis House

WELSH AFFAIRS
Subject: Draft Commissioner for Older People (Wales) Bill
Witness: Mr Don Touhig MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales

10.45 a.m.

The Wilson Room,
Portcullis House

Wednesday 6 April

PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
Subject: Skills for life: improving adult literacy and numeracy
Witnesses: Sir David Normington KCB, Permanent Secretary and Ms Susan Pember, Department for Education and Skills; Mr Mark Haysom, Learning and Skills Council

3.30 p.m.

15

Thursday 7 April

None

[The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded without notice]

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