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:

Administration:

Peter Wishart discharged; John Mason added

Scottish Affairs:

Mr Angus Mac Neil discharged; Peter Wishart added

Intelligence and Security:

Sir Alan Beith discharged; Sir Menzies Campbell added

Select Committee Meetings
24 - 28 November 2008

Monday 24 November

Children, Schools and Families
Subject: National Curriculum
Witnesses: Rt Hon Jim Knight MP, Minister for Schools and Learners, and Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families, and Ian Harrison, Managing Director, Capita Strategic Children's Services and National Strategies

Business and Enterprise
Subject: Energy Prices-follow-up
Witnesses: Mike O'Brien QC MP, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Waste Strategy for England 2007
Witnesses: Campaign to Protect Rural England and Encams; British Soft Drinks Association and British Retail Consortium; Rt Hon Jane Kennedy MP, Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Public Accounts
Subject: Independent Police Complaints Commission
Witnesses: Jane Furniss, Chief Executive, Independent Police Complaints Commission

Tuesday 25 November

Treasury
Subject: November 2008 Inflation Report
Witnesses: Mervyn King, Governor, Sir John Gieve KCB, Deputy Governor, and Charlie Bean, Deputy Governor, Bank of England, and Kate Barker and Dr Andrew Sentance, External Members of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

Environmental Audit
Subject: Reducing CO2 and other emissions from shipping
Witnesses: Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport, and Simon Cockburn, UK's Permanent Representative, International Maritime Organisation

Business and Enterprise
Subject: Energy Prices-follow-up
Witnesses: Ofgem

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: The Licensing Act 2003
Witnesses: Object; Lap Dancing Association; Noctis; Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Defence
Subject: Defence Equipment
Witnesses: General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel, Dr Andrew Tyler, Chief Operating Officer, Defence Equipment and Support, and Rear Admiral Paul Lambert CB, Capability Manager (Precision Attack) and Controller of the Navy, Ministry of Defence

Home Affairs
Subject: Knife Crime
Witnesses: Dr Bob Golding, and Policy Exchange; Professor Karim Brohi, Trauma and Emergency Care, Barts and the London NHS Trust

Welsh Affairs
Subject: The provision of cross-border public services for Wales
Witnesses: ASLEF, and RMT; Freight Transport Association

Joint Committee on Human Rights
Subject: Policing and Protest
Witnesses: Acting Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison MBE, Metropolitan Police, Deputy Chief Constable Sue Sim, Association of Chief Police Officers, and Constable Neil Hickey, Police Federation of England and Wales

Justice
Subject: Justice Reinvestment
Witnesses: Professor Ian Loader, Oxford University, and Malcolm Dean; Nick Herbert MP and David Howarth MP

Wednesday 26 November

Treasury Sub-Committee
Subject: Administration and expenditure of the Chancellor's departments, 2007-08
Witnesses: Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary, Angela Eagle MP, Exchequer Secretary, and Ian Pearson MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury

Public Administration
Subject: Good Government
Witnesses: Ann Abraham, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Tim Burr CB, Comptroller and Auditor General, and Steve Bundred, Audit Commission

Environmental Audit
Subject: The Scientific basis for carbon reduction targets
Witnesses: Professor James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Tim Helweg-Larsen, Director, Public Interest Research Centre; Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Professor John Beddington, CMG FRS, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Government Office of Science

European Scrutiny
Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents
Witnesses: None

Foreign Affairs
Subject: Global Security: Non-Proliferation
Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell, Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen and Sir Michael Quinlan GCB, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Foreign Affairs
Subject: School Travel
Witnesses: Local Government Association and Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers; Paul Clark MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport, and Sarah McCarthy-Fry MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families

Thursday 27 November

None

Friday 28 November

None

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings

3 - 5 December 2008

Wednesday 3 December

None

Thursday 4 December

Friday 5 December

None

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

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