Select Committees

Select Committees are set up to examine the work of Government Departments, and now constitute the main investigatory system by which the House overseas the exercise of Government responsibilities and the development of public policy and expenditure.

The following information on Select Committees is available on the Parliament website:

Select Committee membership: www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/selmem.cfm

Links to Select Committee home pages containing information on the work of the Select Committee and its publications: www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/parliamentary_committees16.cfm

For further information on Select Committees see HCIO Factsheet P2 produced by the House of Commons Information Office, available in hardcopy on request or to download from the Parliament website.

Membership announcements and changes:

Home Affairs: Karen Buck discharged, Mr Khalid Mahmood added

London Regional Select Committee:

Chairman: Karen Buck

Jeremy Corbyn	Clive Efford	Siobhain McDonagh
Mr Andy Slaughter	Mr Andrew Pelling

Select Committee Meetings

14 - 18 December 2009

Monday 14 December

West Midlands Regional Committee
Subject: Advantage West Midlands Annual Report and Future Priorities
Witnesses: Advantage West Midlands Treasury
Subject: Pre-Budget Report 2009
Witnesses: Sheila Dow, Professor of Economics, University of Stirling, Karen Ward, Chief UK Economist, HSBC, Robert Chote, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Martin Weale, Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research; Robert Chote, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies, John Whiting OBE, Tax Policy Director, Chartered Institute of Taxation and Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, David Harker, Chief Executive, Citizens Advice, and David Heald, Professor of Accountancy, University of Aberdeen

Children, Schools and Families
Subject: Sure Start Children's Centres
Witnesses: 4Children, Action for Children, Barnardo's, and Family Action

Committee on Issue of Privilege (Police Searches on Parliamentary Estate)
Subject: Police searches on the Parliamentary Estate
Witnesses: Sir Gus O'Donnell KCB, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service, and Robert Hannigan, Head of Intelligence, Security and Resilience, Cabinet Office; Robert Quick QPM

Communities and Local Government
Subject: Preventing Violent Extremism
Witnesses: Church of England, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Network of Sikh Organisations, and Hindu Council UK; Federation of Muslim Organisations, and Somali Family Support Group; Dr Paul Thomas, Senior Lecturer, Youth and Community Work, University of Huddersfield, Bob McDonald, Principal Lecturer, and Yaser Mir, Senior Lecturer, International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion, University of Lancashire

Public Accounts
Subject: Maintaining financial stability across the United Kingdom's banking system
Witnesses: Sir Nicholas Macpherson KCB, Permanent Secretary, and Tom Scholar, Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury

Tuesday 15 December

Treasury
Subject: (i) Emergency Liquidity Assistance; (ii) Pre-Budget Report 2009
Witnesses: (i) Sir Nicholas Macpherson KCB, Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury; (ii) HM Treasury

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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

Home Affairs
Subject: The work of the National Policing Improvement Agency; The work of the Home Office 2009
Witnesses: (i) National Policing Improvement Agency (ii) Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State, Home Office

Welsh Affairs
Subject: Cross-border provision of public services for Wales: follow-up
Witnesses: Ieuan Wyn Jones AM, Deputy First Minister for Wales and Minister for the Economy and Transport, Welsh Assembly Government; Chris Mole MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Transport, and Rt Hon Jim Knight MP, Minister for the South West; Edwina Hart MBE AM, Health Minister, Welsh Assembly Government

International Development
Subject: DFID's Programme in Nepal
Witnesses: Saferworld, Professor Surya Subedi, and Dr Liz Philipson

Defence
Subject: Defence Equipment 2010
Witnesses: Quentin Davies MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB CBE, Chief of Defence Materiel, and Vice Admiral Paul Lambert CB, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Capability), Ministry of Defence

Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: Motor sport and aerospace industries
Witnesses: Colin Hilton, Chief Executive, Motor Sports Association, Andrew Manahan, Managing Director, Lola Group, Chris Aylett, Chief Executive, Motorsport Industry Association, Mike Dickison, Coventry University

Joint Committee on Human Rights
Subject: The work of the Equality and Human Rights Commission
Witnesses: The Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP, Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality, and Mr Jonathan Rees, Director-General, Government Equalities Office

Welsh Affairs
Subject: Proposed National Assembly for Wales (Legislative Competence) (Housing and Local Government) Order 2010
Witnesses: Jocelyn Davies AM, Deputy Minister for Housing, Welsh Assembly Government

Defence
Subject: Defence Equipment 2010
Witnesses: Bernard Gray; Rt Hon Lord Drayson, Minister of State, and Sir Bill Jeffrey KCB, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence

Justice
Subject: Crown dependencies
Witnesses: Professor Alastair Sutton, White & Case

South East Regional
Subject: Post appointment hearing: the new Chair of SEEDA
Witnesses: Rob Douglas, Chair, Pam Alexander, Chief Executive, and Paul Lovejoy, Executive Director, Strategy and Communications, South East England Development Agency

Wednesday 16 December

Energy and Climate Change
Subject: Low Carbon Technologies in a Green Economy
Witnesses: David Kidney MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Phil Wynn Owen CB, Director General, National Climate Change and Consumer Support, and David Mackay, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Energy and Climate Change

Committees on Arms Export Controls
Subject: Strategic Export Controls
Witnesses: UK Working Group on Arms, and Export Group for Aerospace and Defence

Work and Pensions
Subject: Management and Administration of Contracted Employment programmes
Witnesses: Rt Hon Jim Knight MP, Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, Department for Work and Pensions

Children, Schools and Families
Subject: Sure Start Children's Centres
Witnesses: Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Daycare Trust, National Day Nurseries Association, and National Union of Teachers; Capacity, Community Matters, and Early Childhood Forum

International Development
Subject: DFID's programme in Bangladesh
Witnesses: Michael Foster MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for International Development

Foreign Affairs
Subject: Global Security: UK/US Relations
Witnesses: Ivan Lewis MP, Minister of State, and John Rankin, Director, Americas, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Treasury
Subject: Pre-Budget Report 2009
Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, HM Treasury

Thursday 17 December

East Midlands Regional Committee
Subject: Share of funding in the East Midlands
Witnesses: Travelwatch East Midlands, Network Rail, East Midlands Trains, and Nottinghamshire County Council; David Parsons CBE, Chair, East Midlands Regional Assembly

Friday 18 December

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.

Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
4 - 8 January 2010

Monday 4 January

None

Tuesday 5 January

Wednesday 6 January

Thursday 7 January

Friday 8 January

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.