Weekly Information Bulletin: 4th December 2010
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:
Communities and Local Government: George Freeman discharged and Mark Pawsey added
Justice: Jessica Lee and Anna Soubry discharged and Ben Gummer and Elizabeth Truss added
Scottish Affairs: Mark Menzies and Julian Smith discharged and Mike Freer and Simon Reevell added
Treasury: David Rutley discharged and Mr David Ruffley added
Work and Pensions: Richard Graham and Sajid Javid discharged and Andrew Bingham and Brandon Lewis added
Select Committee Meetings
29 November – 3 December 2010
Monday 29 November
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Backbench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witnesses: Members of Parliament
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Backbench Business
Subject: Localism
Witnesses: National Council of Voluntary Organisations, and Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations; Federation of Small Businesses, British Retail Consortium, and British Council of Shopping Centres (at 5.15pm)
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Administration
Subject: Catering Services in the House of Commons
Witnesses: Sue Harrison, Director of Catering and Retail Services, House of Commons
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Tuesday 30 November
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Treasury
Subject: Competition and Choice in Banking; Financial Regulation
Witnesses: Sir Donald Cruickshank; Mark Hoban MP, Financial Secretary, HM Treasury (at 10.45am)
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Transport
Subject: Transport and the economy
Witnesses: CBI, Federation of Small Businesses, Unite - the Union, and VisitBritain; Transport for London, The Northern Way, London Borough of Newham and HS2 Ltd (at 10.50am); Campaign for Better Transport, Transport Planning Society, Directors of Public Health for the West of England Partnership Area and Stop HS2 (at 11.40am)
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Welsh Affairs
Subject: S4C
Witnesses: Ofcom and TAC; NUJ and BECTU (at 11.00am); The Welsh Language Board and Welsh Language Society (at 11.25am)
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Public Accounts
Subject: Comprehensive Spending Review: Session: Analysis of Departmental Business Plans
Witnesses: Martin Donnelly, Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Sir David Normington KCB, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, Ray Shostak, Director General, Performance Management, HM Treasury, and Kris Murrin, Director, Implementation Unit, Downing Street
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International Development
Subject: World Bank/ The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Witnesses: Ed Hedger, Fellow, Overseas Development Institute and Adviser to the All Party Group on Overseas Development, Peter Young, Adam Smith International, and Jesse Griffiths, Bretton Woods Project
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Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: Government Assistance to Industry
Witnesses: UK Music, PACT; Environmental Industries Commission and Renewable UK (at 11.15am); EEF (the manufacturers’ organisation) and Engineering and Machinery Alliance (at 12 noon)
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Health
Subject: Commissioning
Witnesses: Cumbria PBC Consortium, Torbay Care Trust, NHS Confederation, and East of England SHA; John Seddon, Vanguard Consulting, Kingsley Manning,
Tribal, and Alan Downey, KPMG (at 11.45am)
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Home Affairs
Subject: Extradition
Witnesses: Rt Hon David Blunkett MP; Jago Russell, Fair Trials International (at approx. 11.30 am); and Mrs Janis Sharp, and Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty (at approx. 12 noon)
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Home Affairs
Subject: Lessons from the American experience of policing
Witnesses: Bill Bratton CBE, former chief of police, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)
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Energy and Climate Change
Subject: The Revised Draft National Policy Statements on Energy
Witnesses: Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change, and officials.
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Justice
Subject: The work of the Legal Services Commission
Witnesses: Sir Bill Callaghan, Chair, Carolyn Downs, Chief Executive, Andrew Emmett, Finance Director, Ruth Wayte, Legal Director, and Helen Riley, Director of Case Management, Legal Services Commission
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Wednesday 1 December
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Science and Technology
Subject: Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies
Witnesses: Professor Sir John Beddington, Government Chief Scientific Adviser; Lord Adonis and Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP (at 10.00am); Rt Hon Baroness Neville Jones, Minister of State for Security, and Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science (at 10.30am)
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Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Funding of the arts and heritage
Witnesses: Ed Vaizey MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Rosalind Riley, The Brook Trust, and Dame Vivien Duffield DBE, Chair of the Clore Duffield Foundation (at 11.45am)
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Scottish Affairs
Subject: Supporting Scotland's Economy
Witnesses: CBI Scotland, Federation of Small Businesses, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, UK Trade and Investment
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Environmental Audit
Subject: Green Investment Bank
Witnesses: National Association of Pension Funds, Ernst & Young, and E3G
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Public Accounts
Subject: M25 Widening PFI contract
Witnesses: Martin Capstick, Director, Strategic Roads and National Networks, Department for Transport, and Graham Dalton, Chief Executive, Highways Agency
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Thursday 2 December
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Political and Constitutional Reform
Subject: Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government
Witnesses: Local Government Association, Sir Merrick Cockell, Leader, Kensington and Chelsea Council, Jules Pipe, Mayor of Hackney and Lord Michael Bichard
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Treasury
Subject: European Financial Regulation
Witnesses: Representatives from financial institutions
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Friday 3 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
6 – 10 December 2010
Monday 6 December
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Back Bench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witnesses: Members of Parliament
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4:00pm
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Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
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Communities and Local Government
Subject: Local authority publicity
Witnesses: Cllr Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Deputy Chair, Local Government Association, Jules Pipe, Chair, London Councils, John Findlay, Chief Executive, NALC; Lynne Anderson, Communications Director, The Newspaper Society, Simon Edgley, Managing Director, Trinity Mirror Southern, Michelle Stanistreet, Deputy General Secretary, NUJ, and Roy Greenslade, Commentator (at 5.00pm); Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP, Minister for Housing and Local Government, Department for Communities and Local Government (at 5.40pm)
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4:20pm
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The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
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European Scrutiny
Subject: European Union Bill
Witnesses: David Lidington MP, Minister for Europe, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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4:30pm
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Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
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Treasury
Subject: Autumn forecast
Witnesses: Robert Chote, Chair, Graham Parker CBE, Member, and Professor Stephen Nickell CBE, Member, Budget Responsibility Committee, Office for Budget Responsibility
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4:45pm
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The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
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Administration
Subject: Catering Services in the House of Commons
Witnesses: Duncan Ackery, Consultant, EP Evolution; Rupert Ellwood, International Growth Manager, Waitrose (at 5.30pm)
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5:00pm
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Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
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Tuesday 7 December
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Treasury
Subject: Competition and Choice in Banking; Financial Regulation
Witnesses: Eric Daniels, Group Chief Executive, and Helen Weir CBE, Group Executive Director, Retail, Lloyds Banking Group, Stephen Hester, Group Chief Executive, Royal Bank of Scotland Group (at 10.45am); Benny Higgins, Chief Executive, Tesco Bank (at 11.45am)
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9:45am
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The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
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Energy and Climate Change
Subject: The Big Six Energy Companies
Witnesses: Mark Hanafin, Managing Director of Energy, Centrica, Paul Spence, Director of Strategy and Regulation, EDF Energy, Paul Golby, CEO, E.ON UK, Volker Beckers, CEO, RWE npower, Alistair Philips-Davies, Energy Supply Director, Scottish and Southern Energy, and John Campbell, Director of Energy Wholesale, Scottish Power
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10:15am
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Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
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Communities and Local Government
Subject: Localism
Witnesses: Lorraine Roberts, Interim Director, London Civic Forum, Stian Westlake, Executive Director of Policy and Research, NESTA, Commission for Rural Communities and Community Development Foundation
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10:15am
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Committee Room 20, Palace of Westminster
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Transport
Subject: Transport and the economy
Witnesses: British Air Transport Association, Association of Train Operating Companies, UK Major Ports Group and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport; RAC Foundation, ADEPT, and Stagecoach (at 10.50am); Professor Roger Vickerman, Royal Town Planning Institute and Local Government Association (at 11.40am)
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10:15am
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Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
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International Development
Subject: The Future of CDC
Witnesses: Equity for Africa, University of Manchester, Sierra Investment Fund; Oxfam and Private Eye (at 11.45.am)
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10:30am
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Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
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Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: Government Assistance to Industry
Witnesses: Mark Prisk MP, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, Department for Business, Enterprise and Skills
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10:30am
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The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
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Public Accounts
Subject: Cancer Services
Witnesses: Sir David Nicholson KCB, Chief Executive, NHS, Christine Connelly, Chief Information Officer and Professor Sir Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer and End of Life Care, Department of Health
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10:30am
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Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
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Public Administration
Subject: Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?
Witnesses: Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, and Mike Penning MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Transport; William Rickett, and Dan Corry (at 11.30am)
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10:30am
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Committee Room 18, Palace of Westminster
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Health
Subject: Commissioning
Witnesses: The Patients Association, National Voices, MIND, and Age UK; Local Government Association, UNISON Healthcare, Association of Directors of Public Health, and NHS Partners Network (at 11.45am)
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10:30am
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Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
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Home Affairs
Subject: Police use of Tasers
Witnesses: Kevin Coles, Managing Director, Pro-Tect Systems; Assistant Chief Constable Simon Chesterman, ACPO lead, Assistant Chief Constable Andy Adams, Kent Police (at approximately 11.30am); Home Office Scientific Development Branch and Home Office officials (at 12 noon)
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11:00am
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Funding of the arts and heritage
Witnesses: Barbara Hayes, Deputy Chief Executive, and Richard Combes, Head of Policy, Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society Ltd, Jim Parker, Registrar, Public Lending Right, and Stella Duffy, Author
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11:30am
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Committee Room 17, Palace of Westminster
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Wednesday 8 December
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Education
Subject: The role and performance of Ofsted
Witnesses: Eleanor Schooling, Association for Directors of Children’s Services, Professor Nick Frost, Leeds Metropolitan University; The Daycare Trust, The Fostering Network and National Children’s Bureau (at 10.30am)
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9:30am
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Treasury
Subject: Autumn forecast
Witnesses: Rt Hon George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer
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9:45am
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The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
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European Scrutiny
Subject: European Union Bill
Witnesses: Professor Simon Hix, European and Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics; Professor Ken Minogue, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics (at 3.30pm)
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2:30pm
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Committee Room 19, Palace of Westminster
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Foreign Affairs
Subject: Role of the FCO in UK Government
Witnesses: Professor the Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary College, University of London; Rt Hon Lord Jay GCMG, FCO Permanent Under-Secretary 2002-2006 (at 3.30pm)
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2:30pm
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Scottish Affairs
Subject: Postal Services in Scotland
Witnesses: Consumer Focus Scotland; National Federation of Subpostmasters (at 3.30pm)
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2:45pm
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Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
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Environmental Audit
Subject: Green Investment Bank
Witnesses: RegenSW, Consumer Focus, Co-operative Bank, and Woodland Trust
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2:45pm
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Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
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Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Corporation Tax
Witnesses: Federation of Small Businesses
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3:00pm
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Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: The impact of Common Agricultural Policy reform on UK agriculture
Witnesses: The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and The Campaign to Protect Rural England; Tenant Farmers Association (at 4.15pm)
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3:00pm
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The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
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Procedure
Subject: Ministerial Statements to Parliament
Witnesses: Mark Durkan MP Jane Ellison MP Paul Flynn MP Duncan Hames MP Mr Nick Raynsford MP
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3:15pm
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Committee Room 20, Palace of Westminster
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Public Accounts
Subject: DWP Official Error
Witnesses: Sir Leigh Lewis KCB, Permanent Secretary, John Oliver, Director of Benefit Performance, and Ruth Owen, Chief Operating Officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions
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3:30pm
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Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
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Thursday 9 December
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Political and Constitutional Reform
Subject: Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government
Witnesses: Local Authority Chief Executives: Andrea Hill, Suffolk, Sir Howard Bernstein, Manchester, and Stephen Hughes, Birmingham
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10:00am
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Friday 10 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.
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