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Weekly Information Bulletin: 26th March 2011

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: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/select-committee-membership/

Links to Select Committee home pages containing information on the work of the Select Committee and its publications: http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/committees/select/

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:

Business Innovation and Skills: Greg McClymont discharged, Dan Jarvis added

Draft Defamation Bill (Joint Committee): Sir Peter Bottomley, Rehman Chishti, Chris Evans, Dr Julian Huppert, Mr David Lammy and Stephen Phillips

Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments: Lord Campbell discharged, Baroness Berridge added

Procedure: Angela Smith discharged, Thomas Docherty added

Transport: Kelvin Hopkins discharged, Jim Dobbin added

Select Committee Meetings

21 – 25 March 2011

Monday 21 March

Environmental Audit
Subject: Climate week
Witnesses: Climate week award winners

Public Accounts
Subject: 2012 Olympics
Witnesses: Jonathan Stephens, Permanent Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Paul Deighton, Chief Executive, LOCOG, and Dennis Hone, Chief Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority

Communities and Local Government
Subject: Audit and Inspection of local authorities
Witnesses: Audit and Inspection of Local Authorities Witnesses: Prospect; Age UK, Women’s Resource Centre, and Taxpayers Alliance (at 4.55pm); Paul O’Brien, Chief Executive, Association of Public Service Excellence, and Professor John Seddon, Vanguard (at 5.30pm)

Tuesday 22 March

Transport
Subject: Bus services after the spending review
Witnesses: Stagecoach Group plc, Arriva Bus UK, Compass Travel (Sussex) Ltd, Go West Travel Ltd and Community Transport Association UK; Local Government Association, Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers, pteg, North Yorkshire County Council, and Devon County Council (at 11.15am)

Public Administration
Subject: Good Governance and Civil Service Reform/Cabinet Manual
Witnesses: Good Governance: the effective use of IT Witnesses: Mark Adams-Wright, Chief Information Officer, Suffolk County Council, David Wilde, Chief Information Officer, Westminster City Council, and Martin Ferguson, Head of Policy, Society of Information Technology Management; Joe Harley, Director General and Chief Information Officer, and Malcolm Whitehouse, Group Applications Director, Department for Work and Pensions, Phil Pavitt, Director General and Chief Information Officer and Mark Holden, Director Programmes and Projects IMS, HMRC (at 11.30am)

Justice
Subject: The operation of the Family Courts
Witnesses: Martha Cover, Interdisciplinary Alliance for Children; Baroness Howarth OBE, Chair, Anthony Douglas CBE, Chief Executive, and Bruce Clark, Director of Policy, Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (at 11.00am)

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Football Governance
Witnesses: Ian Watmore, former Chief Executive of the Football Association; Richard Bevan, Chief Executive, League Managers Association (at 11.45am)

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Welfare of Laying Hens Directive-Implications for the egg industry
Witnesses: European Commission Directorate General for Health and Consumer Policy (DG SANCO); Rt Hon James Paice MP, Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (at 11.45am)

Home Affairs
Subject: (i) Work of the Home Office - Equalities (ii) Follow-up on domestic violence
Witnesses: (i) Scope, Stonewall, and Equanomics UK (at 11.30 a.m.); (ii) Women’s Aid and Refuge (at 12.15 p.m.); Karma Nirvana (at 12.45pm); Lynn Featherstone MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Equalities, Home Office (at 1.15pm)

Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: The future of higher education
Witnesses: Lord Browne of Madingley

Back Bench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witnesses: (i) Scope, Stonewall, and Equanomics UK (at 11.30 a.m.); (ii) Women’s Aid and Refuge (at 12.15pm); Karma Nirvana (at 12.45pm); Lynn Featherstone MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Equalities, Home Office (at 1.15pm)

Education
Subject: English Baccalaureate
Witnesses: Matt Brady, Assistant Headteacher, Tile Hill Wood School and Language College, Caroline Jordan, Headmistress, St George’s School, Andrew Chubb, Principal, Archbishop Sentamu Academy, and Hugh O’Neill, Headteacher, St Benedict’s Catholic School; Professor Les Ebdonm, Chair of Students Quality Participation Policy Network, Universities UK, Chris Morecroft, President, Association of Colleges, David Bell, Chief Corporate Development Officer, J C Bamford Excavators Ltd, and Susan Anderson, Director of Public Services and Skills, CBI (at 3.15pm)

Health
Subject: Commissioning: further issues
Witnesses: Rt Hon Andrew Lansley CBE MP, Secretary of State, Dame Barbara Hakin DBE, National Managing Director of Commissioning Development, and Professor Sir Bruce Keogh KBE, NHS Medical Director, Department of Health

Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bill

Subject: Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bill

Witnesses: Lord MacDonald of River Glaven QC, Independent Overseer of the Review of Counter-Terrorism and Security Powers

Wednesday 23 March

Science and Technology
Subject: Forensic Science Service
Witnesses: Bill Griffiths, Chairman, and Dr Gillian Tully, Research and Development Manager, Forensic Science Service, and Steve Thomas, Officer for Forensic Science Service, Prospect Union

Public Administration
Subject: Good governance: the effective use of IT
Witnesses: Craig Wilson, Managing Director, UK and Ireland, HP Enterprise Services


Thursday 24 March

Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: Student visas
Witnesses: Universities UK and CBI; Damian Green MP, Minister of State for Immigration, Home Office, and Jeremy Browne MP, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (at 11.00am)

Treasury
Subject: Budget 2011
Witnesses: Jonathan Portes, Director, and Ray Barrell, Director of Macroeconomic Research and Forecasting, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Environmental Audit
Subject: The impact of UK overseas aid on environmental protection and climate change adaptation and mitigation
Witnesses: George Jambiya, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Natural Resources Forum, Government of Tanzania officials, Lars Mikkel Johannesen, Chair, Development Partners Group for Environment and Climate Change, Tanzania, and Department for International Development officials (via video link)

Friday 25 March

None


Forthcoming Select Committee Meetings
28 March – 1 April 2011

Monday 28 March

Treasury
Subject: Budget 2011
Witnesses: Roger Bootle, Managing Director, Capital Economics, and Paul Johnson, Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; John Whiting, Office for Tax Simplification, and Frank Haskew, ICAEW (at 4.15pm); Special interest groups (at 5.00pm)

3:15pm

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

International Development
Subject: The Future of DFID’s Programme in India
Witnesses: Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Secretary of State for International Development

4:00pm

Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

*Public Accounts
Subject: Immigration – points based system
Witnesses: The Law Society, and Vicash Ramkissoon, Partner and Solicitor, Duncan Lewis; Dame Helen Ghosh DBE, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, Jonathan Sedgwick, Interim Chief Executive, and Matthew Coates, Head of Immigration Group, UK Borders Agency (at 4.45pm)

4:00pm

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Tuesday 29 March

*Treasury
Subject: Budget 2011
Witnesses: Office for Budget Responsibility; HM Treasury (at 11.00am)

9:45am

Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

Energy and Climate Change
Subject: Shale Gas
Witnesses: Environment Agency; Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change and officials (at 11.00am)

10:15am

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Transport
Subject: Effective road and traffic management
Witnesses: Cadence Driver Development, Motorcycle Action Group and Road Haulage Association; Cambridge Cycling Campaign, CTC, the national cyclists’ organisation and Living Streets (at 10. 50am); ADEPT, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK, RAC Foundation and Transport Research Laboratory (at 11.30am)

10:15am

Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster

Communities and Local Government
Subject: Audit and Inspection of local authorities
Witnesses: Deloitte, BDO LLP and MHA; Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, and Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (at 10.55am); Financial Reporting Council (at 11.45am)

10:20am

Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

*Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: The future of higher education
Witnesses: Universities UK, Guild-HE, The Russell Group, The 1994 Group, University Alliance and million+

10:30am

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Justice
Subject: The role of the Probation Service
Witnesses: Andrew Bridges CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Probation

10:30am

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Home Affairs
Subject: (i) Implications for Justice and Home Affairs area of accession of Turkey to EU; (ii) Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications
Witnesses: (i) Ünal Çeviköz, Turkish Ambassador to the UK; Abigail Stepnitz, POPPY Project (at 11.10am); (ii) Chris Bryant MP (at 11.30am); John Yates, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (12.00pm)

10:45am

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Football Governance
Witnesses: David Bernstein, Chairman, and Alex Horne, General Secretary, Football Association; FA National Game (at 11.45am); Stewart Regan, Chief Executive, Scottish Football Association (at 12.15 pm)

10:45am

Wembley Stadium

Back Bench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witnesses: Members of Parliament

1:00pm

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

*Joint Committee on Human Rights
Subject: The Human Rights Implications of UK Extradition Policy
Witnesses: Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, Crown Prosecution Service; Rt Hon Baroness Neville Jones, Minister of State for Security, Home Office (at 3.15pm)

2:30pm

Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

*Treasury
Subject: Budget 2011
Witnesses: Rt Hon George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer

4:00pm

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects
Subject: Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bill
Witnesses: Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, former independent reviewer of counter-terrorism legislation; Isabella Sankey, Policy Director, Liberty, and Dr Eric Metcalfe, Director of Human Rights Policy, Justice (at 5.00pm)

4:15pm

Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster

Wednesday 30 March

Science and Technology
Subject: Forensic Science Service
Witnesses: Professor Jim Fraser, Director, Centre for Forensic Science, University of Strathclyde, David Hartshorne, Commercial Director, Cellmark Forensic, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS, Professor of Genetics, University of Leicester, and David Richardson, Chief Executive, LGC; Dr Simon Bramble, Head of Police Science and Forensics, National Policing Improvement Agency, Roger Coe-Salazar, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, Gary Pugh, Director of Forensic Services, Metropolitan Police Service, and Chief Constable Chris Sims, Association of Chief Police Officers (at 10.15am)

9:15am

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Education
Subject: Services for Young People
Witnesses: Doug Nicholls, National Secretary, Community and Youth Workers’ Union in Unite, Adam Nichols, Chief Executive, Changemakers, Jane Haywood, Chief Executive, Children’s Workforce Development Council, and Gill Millar, Regional Youth Work Adviser, Learning South West; Bill Eyres, Head of Sustainability, 02 UK, Louise Savell, Associate Director, Social Finance, Rob Bell, Deputy Director, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and Martin Brookes, Chief Executive, New Philanthropy Capital (at 10.30am)

9:30am

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Work and Pensions
Subject: Pre-appointment hearing
Witnesses: Preferred candidate for the Chair of the Social Security Advisory Committee

9:30am

The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

Public Administration
Subject: Good governance: the effective use of IT
Witnesses: Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, and Ian Watmore, Chief Operating Officer, Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet OfficeRt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, and Ian Watmore, Chief Operating Officer, Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office

9:45am

Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster

*Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: Responsibilities of DCMS
Witnesses: Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport

10:00am

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Defence
Subject: The Military Covenant in action? Part 1: Military Casualties
Witnesses: Kim Richardson OBE, Chair, Naval Families Federation, Julie McCarthy, Chief Executive, Army Families Federation, and Dawn McCafferty, Chairman, RAF Families Federation

2:30pm

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

*Northern Ireland Affairs
Subject: Responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Witnesses: Rt Hon Owen Paterson MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

2:30pm

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

*Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Comprehensive Spending Review
Witnesses: Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP, Secretary of State, and Bronwyn Hill CBE, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

3:00pm

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Public Accounts
Subject: Financial health of higher education institutions
Witnesses: Universities UK, and GuildHE; Martin Donnelly, Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and Sir Alan Langlands, Chief Executive, Higher Education Funding Council for England (at 4.15pm)

3:30pm

Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

Thursday 31 March

*Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: The Government’s strategy for growth
Witnesses: Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills

10:00am

Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster

Political and Constitutional Reform
Subject: Parliament’s role in conflict decisions
Witnesses: Dr David Jenkins, University of Copenhagen, Sebastian Payne, University of Kent, and Professor Nigel White, University of Nottingham

10:00am

The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Environmental Audit
Subject: Embedding sustainable development - the Government’s response
Witnesses: Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, Minister of State, Cabinet Office

2:45pm

The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House

Friday 1 April

None

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