Weekly Information Bulletin: 13th December 2008
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:
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
Appointed by the House of Lords on 10 December 2008:
| Lord Campbell of Dalloway
| Lord Kimball
| Countess of Mar
| Earl of Mar and Kellie |
| Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
| Lord Walpole
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Consolidated etc. Bills (Joint Committee)
Appointed by the House of Lords 11 December 2008
Chairman - Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
| Lord Acton
| Viscount Bledisloe
| Lord Campbell of Alloway
| Lord Christopher |
| Viscount Colville of Culross
| Earl of Dundee
| Baroness Fookes
| Lord Janner of Braunstone |
| Baroness Mallalieu
| Lord Methuen
| Lord Razzall
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Select Committee Meetings
8 - 12 December 2008
Monday 8 December
Communities and Local Government
Subject: The Balance of Power: central and local government
Witnesses: Professor George Jones OBE and Professor John Stewart; Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Oxford University, and Professor Tony Travers, London School of Economics; Rt Hon Lord Heseltine; Baroness Hamwee and Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Witnesses: Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, and Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; National Energy Action, and National Right to Fuel Campaign
Public Accounts
Subject: Primary Schools: Teaching mathematics
Witnesses: David Bell, Permanent Secretary, Department for Children, Schools and Families
Tuesday 9 December
Treasury
Subject: Pre-Budget Report 2008
Witnesses: HM Treasury
Environmental Audit
Subject: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation
Witnesses: Johan Eliasch, Prime Minister's Special Representative on Deforestation and Clean Energy, Jonathan Brearley, Director, and Graham Floater, Deputy Director and the Eliasch Review Team Leader, Office of Climate Change; Charlie Kronick, Senior Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace, and Robin Webster, Senior Campaigner, Friends of the Earth
Business and Enterprise
Subject: Pub Companies
Witnesses: British Beer and Pub Association, Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers, and British Institute of Innkeeping; Punch Taverns, and Enterprise Inns
Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: London 2012 Games: Lessons from Beijing
Witnesses: Lord Coe, Chairman, and Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and John Armitt, Chairman, and David Higgins, Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority; Charles Allen, Chairman, and Jonathan Edwards, Deputy Chairman, Nations and Regions Group, and Andy Worthington, Chairman, North West Steering Group for the 2012 Games ; Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for the Olympics, Cabinet Office, and Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Home Affairs
Subject: Human Trafficking
Witnesses: Metropolitan Police; London Councils, and Association of Directors of Children's Services ; Alan Campbell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, and Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP, Leader of the House of Commons
Welsh Affairs
Subject: The provision of cross-border public services for Wales
Witnesses: Cardiff International Airport, Manchester Airport and Martin Evans, University of Glamorgan
Joint Committee on Human Rights
Subject: Policing and Protest
Witnesses: Vernon Coaker MP, Minister of State, Home Office
Public Administration
Subject: Equitable Life
Witnesses: Ian Pearson MP, Economic Secretary, HM Treasury
Justice
Subject: Justice Reinvestment
Witnesses: Jonathan Aitken, Chair, Prison Reform Working Group, Centre for Social Justice, and Lord Dubs, Chair, Prison Policy Group; Tim Godwin, Assistant Commisioner, Metropolitan Police, and David Scott, Chair, Chief Officers of Probation
Wednesday 10 December
Children, Schools and Families
Subject: The Work of Ofsted
Witnesses: Christine Gilbert CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills, Ofsted
Work and Pensions
Subject: DWP's commissioning strategy and the employment programme market
Witnesses: Rt Hon Tony McNulty MP, Minister of State, Department for Work and Pensions
Justice
Subject: (1) Legal Aid Reform (Follow-Up) (2) Crown Dependencies.
Witnesses: Lord Bach, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Patrick Bourke, Head of European and International Division, and Mark Taylor, Head of Legal Analysis, Finance and Performance Division, Ministry of Justice.
Scottish Affairs
Subject: Implications for the Scottish economy of the current economic climate
Witnesses: CBI Scotland; Professor David Bell, University of Stirling ; Scottish Trades Union Congress ; Scottish Chambers of Commerce
Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: BBC Commercial Operations
Witnesses: Lord Carter of Barnes CBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
European Scrutiny
Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents
Witnesses: None
Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Cross-border co-operation.
Witness: Northern Ireland Prison Service
Treasury
Subject: Pre-Budget Report 2008
Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Transport
Subject: The enforcement activities of the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Witnesses: Traffic Commissioners; Vehicle and Operator Services Agency ; Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Witnesses: E.ON UK, RWE nPower, and Centrica; Ofgem
Foreign Affairs
Subject: Developments in the European Union
Witnesses: Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Matthew Rycroft CBE, Director EU, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Public Accounts
Subject: The procurement of goods and services by HM Prison Service
Witnesses: Phil Wheatley, Director General, National Offender Management Service, and Vincent Godfrey, Director of Procurement, Ministry of Justice
Thursday 11 December
Health
Subject: Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2008
Witnesses: David Nicholson CBE, NHS Chief Executive, Hugh Taylor CB, Permanent Secretary, David Flory, Director General, NHS Finance, Performance and Operations, and Richard Douglas, Director General, Finance, and Chief Operating Officer, Department of Health
Public Administration
Subject: Work of the Cabinet Office
Witnesses: Sir Gus O'Donnell KCB, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service
Friday 12 December
None
Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
15 - 19 December 2008
Monday 15 December
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Treasury*
Subject: The work of the Financial Services Authority 2007-08
Witnesses: Nick Prettejohn, Chairman, Financial Services Practitioner Panel, Simon Bolam, Chairman, Smaller Businesses Practitioner Panel, Adam Philips, Acting Chairman, Financial Services Consumer Panel, Peter Vicary-Smith, Chief Executive, Which?; Hector Sants, Chief Executive, Financial Services Authority (at 2.30pm)
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1:30pm
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The Grimond Room, Portcullis House |
Business and Enterprise
Subject: The role of regional development agencies
Witnesses: Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
| 2:30pm
| Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster |
Welsh Affairs
Subject: The proposed draft National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Agriculture and Rural Development) Order 2008, relating to the Red Meat Industry
Witnesses: Elin Jones AM, Minister for Rural Affairs, Welsh Assembly Government; Wayne David MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office
(at 3.15 pm.)
| 2:30pm
| National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff |
Communities and Local Government
Subject: The Balance of Power: central and local government
Witnesses: Jeremy Smith, Secretary General of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), appearing in a personal capacity and the Institute of Local Government Studies; the Local Government Association
(at 5.00 pm.)
| 4:20pm
| The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House |
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Witnesses: Consumer Focus; Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (at 5.00 pm.)
| 4:30pm
| Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster |
Public Accounts*
Subject: CDC: Investing to reduce poverty?
Witnesses: Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Permanent Secretary, and Mark Lowcock, Director General, County Programmes, Department for International Development, and Sir Malcolm Williamson, Chairman, and Richard Laing, Chief Executive, CDC Group
| 4:30 pm
| Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster |
Tuesday 16 December
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Business and Enterprise*
Subject: Banks lending to small and medium-size enterprises
Witnesses: David Frost, Director General, British Chambers of Commerce, Andrew Cave, Head of Policy, Federation of Small Businesses, and Michael Izza, Chief Executive, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; Steve Cooper, Managing Director, Local Business, Barclays Bank, John Maltby, Managing Director, Commercial Banking, Lloyds TSB, Lynne Peacock, Chief Executive Officer, Clydesdale Bank, and Peter Ibbetson, Chairman, RBS Small Businesses, Royal Bank of Scotland (at 11.15 am.)
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10:00am
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Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster |
Communities and Local Government
Subject: Housing and the credit crunch
Witnesses: Council of Mortgage Lenders, National Housing Federation, Home Builders Federation and Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association; Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP, Minister for Housing, Department for Communities and Local Government, Sir Bob Kerslake, Chief Executive-designate, Homes and Communities Agency, and Peter Marsh, Chief Executive-designate, Tenant Services Authority
(at 11.20 am.)
| 10:20am
| The Grimond Room, Portcullis House |
Environmental Audit
Subject: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation
Witnesses: Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd and Carbon Markets and Investors Association; Royal Institute of International Affairs (at 11.10 am.)
| 10:20am
| The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House |
Defence
Subject: Defence Equipment
Witnesses: Quentin Davies MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel, Lieutenant General Andrew Figgures CBE, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Equipment Capability), and Mr Amyas Morse, Defence Commercial Director, Ministry of Defence
| 10:30am
| Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster |
Home Affairs
Subject: Police authorities
Witnesses: Local Government Association, and the Association of Police Authorities; Vernon Coaker MP, Minister for Policing, Crime and Security, Home Office
(at 12.15 pm.)
| 11:45am
| The Wilson Room, Portcullis House |
Public Administration
Subject: Good Government
Witnesses: Natalie Creeney, National Archives, Professor Christopher Hood, Oxford University, Professor Colin Talbot, Manchester University, and Tony Travers, London School of Economics
| 2:00pm
| The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House |
Justice
Subject: Justice Reinvestment
Witnesses: Rt Hon David Hanson MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, and Alan Campbell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office
| 4:15pm
| The Grimond Room, Portcullis House |
Wednesday 17 December
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Children, Schools and Families
Subject: Looked-after children
Witnesses: Association of Directors of Children's Services, British Association of Social Workers, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and Professor Judith Masson, University of Bristol
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9:45am
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House |
Work and Pensions
Subject: Pension, Disability and Carers Service
Witnesses: Terry Moran, Chief Executive, Pension, Disability and Carers Service
| 10:00am
| The Grimond Room, Portcullis House |
European Scrutiny
Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents
Witnesses: None
| 2:30pm
| Committee Room 19, Palace of Westminster |
Transport
Subject: Taxes and charges on road users
Witnesses: Automobile Association, RAC Rescue Services, Association of British Drivers, National Alliance Against Tolls, and Drivers' Alliance Ltd; Campaign for Better Transport, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Natural England, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, and Transport & General Workers Union (Unite) (at 3.45 pm)
| 2:45pm
| The Wilson Room, Portcullis House |
Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Cross-border co-operation
Witnesses: Serious Organised Crime Agency
| 3:00pm
| Committee Room 5
Palace of Westminster |
Public Accounts*
Subject: End of life care
Witnesses: David Nicholson, Chief Executive, NHS, Professor Christine Beasley, Chief Nursing Officer, and Professor Mike Richards, National Cancer Director, Department of Health
| 3:30pm
| Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster |
Thursday 18 December
None
Friday 19 December
None
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