Select Committee on Statutory Instruments First Report



Select Committee on Statutory Instruments

The Select Committee on Statutory Instruments (SCSI) is appointed to consider all statutory instruments laid only before the House of Commons.

The Committee is empowered to draw the special attention of the House to an instrument on any one of a number of grounds specified in the Standing Order under which it works; or on any other ground which does not impinge upon the merits of the instrument or the policy behind it.

Current membership
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP (Labour, City of Durham)
Mr Peter Bone MP (Conservative, Wellingborough)
Mr Eric Forth MP (Conservative, Bromley and Chislehurst) (Chairman)
Michael Jabez Foster MP (Labour, Hastings and Rye)
Mr David Kidney MP (Labour, Stafford)
Mr John MacDougall MP (Labour, Central Fife)
Mr David Simpson MP (Democratic Unionist, Upper Bann)

Powers
The full constitution and powers of the Committee are set out in House of Commons Standing Order No. 151, available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk.

Publications
The reports of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House of Commons. All publications of the Committee are available on the Internet from http://www.parliament.uk/scsi.

Committee staff
The current staff of the Committee are Mick Hillyard (Clerk), Jacqui Cooksey (Committee Secretary).

Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments, Delegated Legislation Office, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general inquiries is: 020 7219 2830; the Committee's e-mail address is: jcsi@parliament.uk.



 
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