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/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/factsheets.cfm

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/parliamentary_committees/parliamentary_committees16.cfm

Membership:

Health: Mr Stewart Jackson to be discharged; Mr Lee Scott added

Public Accounts: Greg Clark to be discharged; Angela Browning to be added

Treasury: Mr Brooks Newmark and Mr David Gauke to be discharged; Mr Graham Brady and Mr Philip Dunne to be added

Select Committee Meetings
16 - 20 July 2007

Monday 16 July
TRADE AND INDUSTRY* Subject: role of the Minister for Trade Promotion and Investment Witness: Lord Jones of Birmingham, Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Subject: Investigating the Oceans Witnesses: Jonathan Shaw MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and Professor Sir David King, Government Chief Scientific Adviser
Tuesday 17 July
TRADE AND INDUSTRY Subject: Work of the Office of Fair Trading Witnesses: CBI; Office of Fair Trading (at 11:00am)
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Subject: Personal Carbon Allowances Witnesses: Energy Saving Trust; Centre for Alternative Energy (at 11:00am)
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Subject: DFID Annual Report 2007 Witnesses: Sir Suma Chakrabarti KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development
WELSH AFFAIRS Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales Witnesses: Caroline Flint MP, Minister of State, and Bill Wells, Economy and Labour Market Divisional Manager, Department for Work and Pensions
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Subject: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2006-07 Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE; Sir Ivor Roberts KCMG (at 5:00pm)
SCOTTISH AFFAIRS Subject: Scotland Office Annual Report 2007 Witnesses: Rt Hon Des Brown MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, David Cairns MP, Minister of State, and Dr Jim Wildgoose, Head of Scotland Office
CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS Subject: Ministry of Justice Aims and Objectives Witness: Alex Allan, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice
Wednesday 18 July
FOREIGN AFFAIRS* Subject: Global Security: Russia Witnesses: Jim Murphy MP, Minister for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
TRANSPORT Subject: Draft Local Transport Bill Witness: Rt Hon Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Transport
ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS Subject: Defra's Departmental Report 2007 Witness: Helen Ghosh, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
TREASURY Subject: Appointment of the Chairman of the Statistics Board Witness: Sir Michael Scholar KCB
Thursday 19 July
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION* Subject: Centre of Government Witness: Sir Michael Barber

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

All public select committee meetings are webcast

Select committees marked with * will be taken by BBC Parliament

Recorded information about forthcoming select and standing committee meetings over the next two sitting days is available on: [Tel 020 7219 2033]. Please note: The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded, and the place altered without notice and Committees which sit at short notice may not be included in this list.

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
23 - 26 July 2007

Monday 23 July
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Subject: Investigating the Oceans Witnesses: Professor Alan Thorpe, and Dr Phil Williamson, Natural Environment Research Council	4:15pm	Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
WORK AND PENSIONS Subject: Government response to the Freud and Leitch reviews Witness: Caroline Flint MP, Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, Department for Work and Pensions	4:15pm	Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS Subject: The human rights of adults with learning disabilities Witnesses: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, National Family Carers Network and Rescare; Respond, VOICE UK, Ann Craft Trust and Prison Reform Trust (at 5:00pm)	4:15pm	4A
Tuesday 24 July
ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Subject: Personal Carbon Allowances Witnesses: Royal Society for the Arts; The Environmental Change Institute (at 11:00am); and Professor Paul Ekins, Policy Studies Institute (at 11:30am)	10:20am	Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
DEFENCE* Subject: UK operations in Iraq Witness: Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP, Minister for the Armed Forces, Ministry of Defence	10:30am	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
TRADE AND INDUSTRY Subject: Public Procurement Witnesses: Officials from the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform	11:00am	The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
HOME AFFAIRS* Subject: The Work of the Home Office 2007 Witness: Rt Hon Jacqui Smith MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department	2:00pm	Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Subject: Freedom of Information: Administrative Impact Witnesses: Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, Graham Smith, Deputy Information Commissioner, and Maurice Frankel, Director, Campaign for Freedom for Information	2:15pm	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
WELSH AFFAIRS Subject: Globalisation and its impact on Wales Witnesses: Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Wales, Alan Cogbill, Director, and John Williams, Deputy Director, Wales Office; Paul Whitehouse, Chairman, Gangmasters Licensing Authority (at 3:30pm)	2:15pm	Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS* Subject: (i) Towards Effective Sentencing (ii) Ministry of Justice Issues Witness: Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor	4:15pm	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
NORTHERN IRELAND GRAND COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER THE MATTER OF POLICING REFORM IN NORTHERN IRELAND	4:30pm	Committee Room 14, Palace of Westminster
Wednesday 25 July
HEALTH* Subject: The Responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Health Witness: Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health	9:30am	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
WORK AND PENSIONS Subject: Departmental Annual Report Witness: Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions	9:30am	The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Thursday 26 July
None

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

All public select committee meetings are webcast

Select committees marked with * will be taken by BBC Parliament

Recorded information about forthcoming select and standing committee meetings over the next two sitting days is available on: [Tel 020 7219 2033]. Please note: The decision of a Committee to sit in public may be rescinded, and the place altered without notice and Committees which sit at short notice may not be included in this list.