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:

International Development

James Duddridge discharged; Daniel Kawczynski added

Select Committee Meetings
10 - 14 March

Monday 10 March

Public Accounts* Subject: Government preparations for digital switchover Witnesses: Sir Brian Bender KCB, Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Jonathan Stephens, Permanent Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Peter White, Chief Executive, Digital Switchover Help Scheme

Tuesday 11 March

Home Affairs* Subject: Policing in the 21st Century Witnesses: Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London; Boris Johnson MP; Brian Paddick; Metropolitan Police Authority, and Metropolitan Police Service

Environmental Audit Subject: Post Kyoto: The international context for progress on climate change Witnesses: Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd

Scottish Affairs Subject: Employment and skills for the defence industry in Scotland Witnesses: RAND Europe, UK Naval Engineering, Science and Technology Forum, and Society of British Aerospace Companies Scotland

Welsh Affairs* Subject: Work of the Wales Office Witnesses: Rt Hon Paul Murphy MP, Secretary of State for Wales

Wednesday 12 March

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Diversity of School Provision: Faith Schools Witnesses: Rebecca Allen, Institute of Education, Professor Mark Halsted, University of Huddersfield, Professor Audrey Osler, University of Leeds, and Professor Anne West, London School of Economics; Rt Rev Stephen Venner, Bishop of Dover, Rt Rev Patrick O'Donoghue, Bishop of Lancaster, and Peter Irvine, Catholic Education Service

Innovation, Universities, Science and Schools Subject: Renewable Electricity-Generation Technologies Witnesses: Professor Gordon MacKerron, ESRC, Mr David Sowden, Chief Executive, Micropower Council, Mr Brian Samuel, Energy Savings Trust, and a representative from the London Climate Change Agency; Mr Paul Whittaker, UK Director of Regulation, National Grid, Mr Steve Smith, Managing Director of Networks, Ofgem, Mr David Smith, Acting Chief Executive, Energy Networks Association, and a representative from EoN UK

European Scrutiny Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents Witnesses:

Northern Ireland Affairs* Subject: Policing and Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland Witnesses: Committee on the Administration of Justice

Thursday 13 March

Health Subject: Health Inequalities Witnesses: Dr Fiona Adshead, Director General, Health Improvement, Mark Britnell, Director General, Commissioning and System Management, and Una O'Brien, Director of Policy and Strategy, Department of Health

Friday 14 March

None

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

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Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings

24 - 28 March 2008

Monday 17 March

Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Sub-Committee
Subject: Biosecurity in UK Research Laboratories
Witnesses: Sir Bill Callaghan, Chairman of the review of the regulatory framework for handling animal pathogens, and Professor George Griffin, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens; Health and Safety Executive and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (at 5.00 p.m.)

4:15pm

The Grimmond Room, Portcullis House

Treasury*
Subject: The Budget 2008
Witnesses: Robert Chote, Professor David Miles, Bridget Rosewell, and Dr Martin Weale; and Robert Chote, Professor Colin Talbot, Dr Martin Weale and John Whiting (at 5.15 p.m.)

4:15pm

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Public Accounts
Subject: Major Projects Report 2007
Witnesses: Sir Bill Jeffrey KCB, Permanent Under Secretary, General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel and Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff for Equipment Capability, Ministry of Defence

4:30pm

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Tuesday 18 March

Treasury Subject: The Budget 2008 Witnesses: HM Treasury officials	9:45am	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Welsh Affairs Subject: The provision of cross-border public services for Wales Witnesses: Tom Taylor CEO, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust; Jo Webber, Deputy Director of Policy, NHS Confederation and Mike Ponton, Director, Welsh NHS Confederation (at 11.15 a.m.)	10:30am	Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
Home Affairs Subject: A surveillance society? Witnesses: Association of Chief Police Officers and National Policing Improvement Agency; Rt Hon Tony McNulty MP, Minister of State, Home Office (at 11.30 a.m.)	10:30am	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
Culture, Media and Sport* Subject: Harmful content on the internet and in video games Witnesses: Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre; Internet Service Providers' Association, AOL and BT (at 11.15 a.m.)	10:30am	Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
Scottish Affairs Subject: Credit Unions in Scotland Witnesses: Cross Party Cross Parliamentary Group on Debt	11:15am	Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Sub Committee Subject: British Waterways Witnesses: British Waterways	2:30pm	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
Justice* Subject: The work of the Electoral Commission Witnesses: Sam Younger, Chairman, and Peter Wardle, Chief Executive, Electoral Commission	4:15pm	The Grimmond Room, Portcullis House

Wednesday 19 March

Children, Schools and Families Subject: Looked-after children Witnesses: Dr Roger Morgan OBE, Children's Rights Director for England and Maxine Wrigley, Chief Executive, A National Voice	9:30am	The WIlson Room, Portcullis House
Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Subject: Use of government statistics in evidence-based policy-making Witnesses: Ms Karen Dunnell, National Statistician	9:30am	The Grimmond Room, Portcullis House
Work and Pensions Subject: Health and safety Witnesses: Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, CBE, National Director for Health and Work	9:30am	Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
International Development Subject: DFID and the African Development Bank Witnesses: African Development Bank	10am	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Northern Ireland Affairs Subject: Policing and criminal justice in Northern Ireland Witnesses: Sir Kenneth Bloomfield KCB, former Victims Commissioner; Healing Through Remembering (11.00 a.m.); WAVE (11.45 a.m.)	10:15am	Room 144, Parliament Building, Stormont
Public Administration Subject: Better Government Witnesses: Better Government Initiative	2:15pm	Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
Treasury* Subject: The Budget 2008 Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer and HM Treasury officials	2:30pm	The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
Foreign Affairs Subject: Global security: Japan and Korea Witnesses: Dr John Swenson-Wright, University of Cambridge; Aidan Foster-Carter, University of Leeds, Professor Hazel Smith, University of Warwick (at 3.30 p.m.)	2:30pm	The Grimmond Room, Portcullis House
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Sub Committee Subject: British Waterways Witnesses: Jonathan Shaw MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	2:30pm	The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
European Scrutiny Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents Witnesses:	2:30pm	Committee Room 19, Palace of Westminster
Transport Subject: Delivering a sustainable railway: A 30-year strategy for the railways? Witnesses: South West Regional Assembly and South West Regional Development Agency, West Midlands Regional Rail Forum, Transport for London and The Northern Way; Tom Harris MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Department for Transport (at 3.30 p.m.)	2:45pm	Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
Public Accounts Subject: DEFRA: management of expenditure Witnesses: Helen Ghosh, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	3:30pm	Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Thursday 20 March

Business and Enterprise, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development (Communities on Arms Export Controls)
Subject: Strategic Export Controls
Witnesses: The Export Group for Aerospace and Defence, Strategic Shipping Company and Fletcher International Export Consultancy; Amnesty UK, Oxfam GB, Saferworld and Transparency International UK (at 10.30 a.m.)

9:45am

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster