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; and the administration
and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury
Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the
Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments
and advice given within government by Law Officers).
Current membership
Mr John Denham MP (Labour, Southampton, Itchen)
(Chairman)
Mr Richard Benyon MP (Conservative, Newbury)
Mr Jeremy Browne MP, (Liberal Democrat, Taunton)
Mr James Clappison MP (Conservative, Hertsmere)
Mrs Ann Cryer MP (Labour, Keighley)
Mrs Janet Dean MP (Labour, Burton)
Mr Shahid Malik MP (Labour, Dewsbury)
Margaret Moran MP (Labour, Luton South)
Gwyn Prosser MP (Labour, Dover)
Bob Russell MP (Liberal Democrat, Colchester)
Martin Salter MP (Labour, Reading West)
Mr Richard Spring MP (Conservative, West Suffolk)
Mr Gary Streeter MP (Conservative, South West
Devon)
Mr David Winnick MP (Labour, Walsall North)
The following Members were also Members of the Committee
during the inquiry:
Colin Burgon (Labour, Elmet)
Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat, North Devon)
Nick Herbert (Conservative, Arundel and South
Downs)
Steve McCabe (Labour, Birmingham Hall Green)
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/homeaffairscom. A list of Reports of the
Committee since 2001 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), Kate Akester (Adviser
(Sentencing Guidelines)), Martha Goyder (Committee Specialist),
Ms Arabella Thorp (Inquiry Manager), Mr Ian Thomson (Committee
Assistant), Jenny Pickard (Secretary) and Alison Forrester (Senior
Office Clerk).
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'. All evidence for this inquiry is printed in Volume
II.
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