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 Human Rights

Appointed by the House of Lords on 15 December 2008:

Lord Bowness Lord Dubs Lord Lester of Herne Hill Lord Morris of Hansworth

Earl of Onslow Baroness Prashar

Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)

Appointed by the House of Lords on 15 December 2008:

Lord Blackwell Lord Goodhart Baroness Goudie Lord Haskel

Rt Hon Lord Newton of Braintree Rt Hon Lord Millett

Select Committee Meetings
15 - 19 December 2008

Monday 15 December

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday 16 December

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 17 December

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

Work and Pensions
Subject: Pension, Disability and Carers Service
Witnesses: Terry Moran, Chief Executive, Pension, Disability and Carers Service

European Scrutiny
Subject: Scrutiny of European Documents
Witnesses: None

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)

Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Cross-border co-operation
Witnesses: Serious Organised Crime Agency

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

Thursday 18 December

None

Friday 19 December

None

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
12 - 16 January 2009

Monday 12 January

Communities and Local Government
Subject: The Balance of Power: central and local government
Witnesses: Department for Communities and Local Government 4:40pm The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Tuesday 13 January

Treasury
Subject: Banking Crisis
Witnesses: Professor Willem Buiter, Professor of European Political Economy, London School of Economics, Will Hutton, Chief Executive Officer, The Work Foundation, Professor Charles Goodhart, Professor Emeritus of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics, Mr Richard Lambert, Director General, CBI, and Jon Moulton, Managing Partner, Alchemy Partners

9:45am The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Home Affairs
Subject: Knife Crime
Witnesses: Association of Chief Police Officers; British Transport Police
(at 11.15 am); Youth Justice Board (at 11.45 am)

10:30am The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Business and Enterprise and Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Pre-Appointment Hearing for new Ofcom Chairman
Witnesses: Colette Bowe

10:30am Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Environmental Audit
Subject: Carbon Budgets
Witnesses: Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, Chair, Committee on Climate Change

10:00am Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Justice
Subject: Work of the Information Commissioner
Witnesses: Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner, David Smith, Deputy Commissioner, and Simon Entwisle, Chief Operating Officer, Office of the Information Commissioner

5:15pm The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Wednesday 14 January

Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills
Subject: Engineering
Witnesses: Ian Midgley, Richard Archer, and Bob Dover; BAE, National Grid, and WS Atkins (at 10.15 am)

9:30am The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Work and Pensions
Subject: DWP's response to the economic downturn and the implications for welfare reform
Witnesses: John Philpot, Chief Economist, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Rt. Hon. James Purnell MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (at 10.00 am)

9:30am The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Business and Enterprise
Subject: The Work of the Department
Witnesses: Rt Hon Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

9:30am Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Treasury
Subject: Banking Crisis
Witnesses: tbc

2:30pm The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Energy efficiency and fuel poverty
Witnesses: Joan Ruddock MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change

4:00pm The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Public Accounts
Subject: Central government's management of service contracts
Witnesses: Nigel Smith, Chief Executive, Office of Government Commerce

3:30pm Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Thursday 15 January

Health
Subject: Patient Safety
Witnesses: Royal College of Radiologists, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, and Brian Toft, Professor of Patient Safety, Coventry University; Professor Mike Murphy, Consultant Haematologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Professor Bryony Dean Franklin, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and GS1 UK. (at 11.15 am)

10:00am The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Public Administration
Subject: Good Government
Witnesses: Sir Michael Bichard, Lord Birt and Lord (Digby) Jones of Birmingham

10:00am The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Friday 16 January

None

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