Weekly Information Bulletin: 16th October 2010

Treasury
Subject: Financial Regulation
Witnesses: British Bankers’ Association, Building Societies Association, and Association for Financial Markets in Europe

Transport
Subject: Drink and Drug Driving Law
Witnesses: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE); Professor Richard Allsop; British Medical Association; British Beer and Pub Association; Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) (at 11.00am); Dtec International Ltd; Concateno; Dr Rob Tunbridge (at 11.30am)

Energy and Climate Change
Subject: Emissions Performance Standards
Witnesses: Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, Chair, and David Kennedy, Chief Executive, Committee on Climate Change, and Professor Jon Gibbins, Edinburgh University; Nick Molho, Head of Energy Policy, WWF, Simon Skillings, Senior Associate, E3G, and Chris Littlecott, Senior Policy Advisor, Green Alliance (at 11.15am)

Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: The Local Enterprise Partnerships
Witnesses: Enterprise M3, Gatwick Diamond Initiative/Coast to Capital, Greater Cambridge and Greater Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Leeds City Region; Business Voice West Midlands, Cornwall and Scillies (‘Empowering Enterprise’), Coventry and Warwickshire, Newcastle Gateshead, South East Midlands (at 11.30am)

Justice
Subject: The role of the Probation Service
Witnesses: Revolving Doors Agency

Health
Subject: Public Expenditure
Witnesses: Richard Douglas CB, Acting Permanent Secretary (and Director General for Finance and Chief Operating Officer) Sir David Nicholson KCB, CBE, Chief Executive, National Health Service David Flory CBE, Deputy NHS Chief Executive David Behan CBE, Director General, Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Funding of the arts and heritage
Witnesses: Alan Davey, Chief Executive, Arts Council England, Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive, Arts and Business, Louise de Winter, Director, National Campaign for the Arts; Gary Millar, Councillor (Lib Dem), Liverpool City Council, Simon Eden, Chief Executive, Winchester City Council, Guy Nicholson, Councillor (Lab), Hackney Borough Council (at 11.45am)

Home Affairs
Subject: Policing: Police and Crime Commissioners
Witnesses: Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor of London with responsibility for policing and Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (at 11.00am); Rick Muir, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Public Policy Research (at 11.30am); and Bernard Hogan-Howe, former Chief Constable of Merseyside (at 12.00pm)

Public Accounts
Subject: Cafcass’s response to increased demand for its services
Witnesses: Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Wall, President and Sir Mark Hedley, High Court Judge, Family Division

Foreign Affairs
Subject: The UK’s foreign policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan
Witnesses: Michael Semple, Fellow, Harvard University; Matt Waldman, Analyst. James Fergusson, Author and journalist; Joylon Leslie, Aga Khan Foundation (at 3.15pm)

Scottish Affairs
Subject: Video Games Industry
Witnesses: Dr Richard Wilson, CEO, The Independent Game Developers’ Association, and Michael Rawlinson, Director General, The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment; Paul Durrant, Director of Business Development, University of Abertay Dundee (at 3.30pm)

Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Witnesses: The Rt Hon Lord Saville of Newdigate, Chairman of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Future Flood and Water Management Legislation
Witnesses: OFWAT (The Water Services Regulation Authority); Consumer Council for Water (at 4.15pm)

Treasury
Subject: Financial Regulation
Witnesses: Natalie Ceeney, Chief Executive, Tony Boorman, Principal Ombudsman, FOS, David Hall, Chairman, FSCS, Mark Neale, Chief Executive, FSCS; Richard Saunders, Chief Executive, Investment Management Association Peter Vipond, Director, Financial Regulation and Taxation, Association of British Insurers (at 10.45am)

Political and Constitutional Reform
Subject: Lessons from the process of government formation after the 2010 general election
Witnesses: Rt Hon David Laws MP; Lord Adonis, Director, Institute for Government (at 11.00am)

Welsh Affairs
Subject: The implication for Wales of the Government’s Proposals for Constitutional Reform
Witnesses: Boundary Commission for Wales; Association of Electoral Administrators, Wales Governance Centre, and Democratic Audit (at 11.00am); David Jones MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Wales Office, and Mark Harper MP, Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform, Cabinet Office (at 11.30am)

Treasury
Subject: Financial Regulation
Witnesses: Martin Lewis, MoneySavingExpert; Association of Independent Financial Advisers, Institute of Financial Planning, and Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers (at 10.30am)

9:45am

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Energy and Climate Change
Subject: Emissions Performance Standards
Witnesses: Mr Matthew Farrow, Head of Energy, Transport and Planning, CBI, Dr Jeff Chapman, Chief Executive, Carbon Capture and Storage Association, Dr John McElroy, Chairman, Environment Committee, Association of Electricity Producers. From 11.15am, Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State, DECC, Jonathan Holyoak, Head of Strategy, Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, DECC, Richard Sargeant, Head of Energy Futures, DECC, Will Francis, Assistant Head, Strategy & Policy Coordination, Office of Carbon Capture and Storage, DECC

10:15am

Committee Room 17, Palace of Westminster

Justice
Subject: Court closures and other issues within the Minister’s remit
Witnesses: Jonathan Djanogly MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice

10:30am

Committee Room 18, Palace of Westminster

Welsh Affairs
Subject: Severn Crossing Toll
Witnesses: Federation of Small Businesses, Aberystwyth University, and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport; Freight Transport Association, and Rail Freight Group (at 11.30am)

10:30am

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Public Administration
Subject: Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?
Witnesses: Chris Mullin, Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP, and Rt Hon the Lord Rooker

10:30am

Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster

Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: The Local Enterprise Partnerships
Witnesses: Mark Prisk MP, Minister of State, Philippa Lloyd, Director, Economic Development Directorate, and Philip Rycroft, Director-General of Innovation and Enterprise Group, and Chief Executive of Better Regulation Executive, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

10:30am

Committee Room 19, Palace of Westminster

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Funding of the arts and heritage
Witnesses: UK Film Council, British Film Institute, and British Screen Advisory Council; English Heritage, and National Trust (at 11.45am)

10:45am

Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Scottish Affairs
Subject: Video Games Industry
Witnesses: Edward Troup, Managing Director, Budget, Tax and Welfare, HM Treasury; Ed Vaizey MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Department for Culture, Media and Sport (at 10.15am)

9:30am

Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Work and Pensions
Subject: Changes to Housing Benefit announced in the June 2010 Budget
Witnesses: Local Government Association, and London Councils; Shelter, Chartered Institute of Housing, and Alex Fenton, Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (at 10.10am); British Property Federation, and Residential Landlords Association (at 10.50am)

9:30am

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Science and Technology
Subject: Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies
Witnesses: Professor Sheila Bird, Vice President (2006–2009), Royal Statistical Society, Professor Neil Ferguson OBE, Director, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Justin McCracken, Chief Executive, Health Protection Agency, and Dr Peter Holden, British Medical Association; Professor Sir Gordon Duff, Chair of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee, Department of Health, Sir Liam Donaldson, Former Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, and Professor David Harper CBE, Chief Scientist, Department of Health (at 10.30am)

9:30am

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Environmental Audit
Subject: Embedding sustainable development across Government, after the Secretary of State’s announcement on the future of the Sustainable Development Commission
Witnesses: Sustainable Development Commission; Flora Goldhill CBE, Acting Director General and Chief Operating Officer, and Richard Mundon, Director of Operations, Department of Health (at 11.15am)

10:15am

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Foreign Affairs
Subject: The UK’s foreign policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan
Witnesses: Sir Hilary Synnott KCMG, Consulting Senior Fellow for South Asia and the Gulf, International Institute of Strategic Studies, and Dr Farzana Shaikh, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House; Dr Sajjan Gohel, International Security Director, Asia-Pacific Foundation, and Professor Shaun Gregory, Director, Pakistan Security Research Unit, University of Bradford (at 3.15pm)

2:30pm

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House