Weekly Information Bulletin: 14th May 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:
Public Administration: Charles Walker discharged, Alun Cairns added
Select Committee Meetings
9 – 13 May 2011
Monday 9 May
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Public Accounts
Subject: The InterCity East Coast Passenger Rail Franchise
Witnesses: Lin Homer, Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport, and Elaine Holt, Chairman, Directly Operated Railways Ltd, East Coast Main Line Company Ltd
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*Draft Defamation Bill
Subject: To consider the Bill
Witnesses: Keith Mathieson, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Mark Stephens, Finers Stephens Innocent, David Price, David Price Solicitors & Advocates, Marcus Partington, Media Lawyers Association; Nigel Tait, Carter-Ruck, Rod Christie-Miller, Schillings Lawyers, Jeremy Clarke-Williams, Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors, and Duncan Lamont, Charles Russell (at 5.15pm)
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Communities and Local Government
Subject: Regeneration
Witnesses: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Centre for Local Economic Strategies and Institute for Public Policy Research North; Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder Chairs, National Housing Federation and Urban Pollinators (at 5.15pm)
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Tuesday 10 May
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Transport
Subject: Effective road and traffic management
Witnesses: David Brown, Director General of South Yorkshire PTE, pteg, and Peter Nash, Policy Adviser, Stagecoach; Dave Turnbull, Legal Director, National Joint Utilities Group, John Pettigrew, Chief Operating Officer of UK Gas Distribution, National Grid, and Roger Culpin, Chair, Joint Authorities Group (at 10.45am); Simon Beasley, Chair, Urban Traffic Management and Control, Andy Graham, Chair, Co-operative Vehicle Highways Interest Group, Intelligent Transport Systems, and Tony Sharp, Vice President, Institute of Highway Engineers (at 11.30am)
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Energy and Climate Change
Subject: A European Supergrid
Witnesses: Friends of the Supergrid, Institution of Engineering and Technology; Pöyry, RenewableUK (at 11.15am)
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Business, Innovation and Skills
Subject: The future of higher education
Witnesses: Higher Education Funding Council for England, Fair Access, and Universities and Colleges Admissions Service; Higher Education Policy Institute (at 11.45am)
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Health
Subject: Complaints and Litigation
Witnesses: Desmond Hudson, The Law Society of England and Wales, Muiris Lyons, The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Carole Ayre, Browne Jacobson LLP, and Nicola Wainwright, Leigh Day and Co. Solicitors; Simon Burns MP, Minister of State, and Chris Bostock, Head of User Experience, Department of Health (at 11.45am)
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Justice
Subject: The operation of the Family Courts
Witnesses: Dr Rae Kaspiew, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Family Research; Dr Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England (at 11.00am)
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*Culture, Media and Sport
Subject: 2018 World Cup Bid
Witnesses: Mike Lee, strategist behind the 2018 Qatar World Cup bid; Lord Triesman, England 2018 World Cup bid (at 11.30am)
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Public Administration
Subject: Appointment of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
Witnesses: Sir Michael Scholar KCB, Chair, Jil Matheson, National Statistician, and Richard Alldritt, Head of Assessment, UK Statistics Authority
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*Speaker's Committee
Subject: IPSA draft Main Estimate 2011-12
Witnesses: Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, Chair, Scott Woolveridge Acting Chief Executive, and Bob Evans, Director of Finance, IPSA
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Home Affairs
Subject: The New Landscape of Policing
Witnesses: Sir Hugh Orde, President, Association of Chief Police Officers, and Mick Creedon, Chief Constable of Derbyshire (at 11.00am); Sir Ian Andrews, Chair, and Trevor Pearce, Director General, Serious Organised Crime Agency (at 11.45am)
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: EU proposals for the dairy industry
Witnesses: Tesco Stores plc
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Back Bench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witnesses: Members of Parliament
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Joint Committee on the Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills
Witnesses: Sir Hugh Orde, President of ACPO, John Yates, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, and Drew Harris, Assistant Chief Constable, Police Service in Northern Ireland
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Wednesday 11 May
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Science and Technology
Subject: Peer review
Witnesses: Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science, Dr Liz Wager, Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics and Board Member of the UK Research Integrity Office; Mayur Amin, Senior Vice President, Research & Academic Relations, Elsevier, Dr Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature Publishing Group, Robert Campbell, Senior Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Group, and Dr Andrew Sugden, Deputy Editor & International Managing Editor, Science (at 10.00am)
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Education
Subject: 16–19 participation in education and training
Witnesses: (at 9.30am) Deborah Roseveare, Directorate for Education, OECD; and Professor Lorna Unwin, Professor of Vocational Education, Institute of Education. (at 10.30am) National Apprenticeship Service; Laing O’Rourke; Kwik Fit; Humberside Engineering Training Association; and SEMTA
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*Draft Defamation Bill
Subject: To consider the Bill
Witnesses: Alan Rushbridger, Editor, The Guardian, Philip Johnston, Assistant Editor, Daily Telegraph, and Alastair Brett, Former Legal Director of The Times
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Justice
Subject: (i) Pre-appointment hearing: HM Chief Inspector of Probation; (ii) The role of the Probation Service
Witnesses: (i) HM Chief Inspector of Probation: Preferred Candidate; (ii) Christine Lawrie, Chief Executive and Sebert Cox, Chair, Probation Association, Sue Hall, Chair and Tessa Webb, Vice-Chair, Probation Chiefs’ Association (at 10.15am)
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Work and Pensions
Subject: Remploy
Witnesses: GMB; (10.30am) Ian Russell CBE, Chair, and Tim Matthews, Chief Executive, Remploy
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Energy and Climate Change
Subject: Ofgem Retail Market Review
Witnesses: Centrica, EDF Energy, E.ON UK, RWE npower, Scottish and Southern Energy, Scottish Power
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*Defence
Subject: Operations in Afghanistan
Witnesses: General Sir David Richards KCB CBE DSO, Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen, Chief of the General Staff, and General Sir Nicholas Houghton KCB CBE ADC Gen, VCDS, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence
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Foreign Affairs
Subject: UK-Brazil Relations
Witnesses: UKTI; Professor Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, and Dr Marieke Riethof, Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool (at 3.45pm)
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Scottish Affairs
Subject: The student immigration system in Scotland
Witnesses: Damien Green MP, Minister of State for Immigration, Home Office and Phil Taylor, Regional Director, Scotland and Northern Ireland, UK Border Agency
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Environmental Audit
Subject: Sustainable Food
Witnesses: Professor Tim Lang, City University London, Professor Philip Lowe, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, and WWF-UK
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*Defence
Subject: The Strategic Defence and Security Review and the National Security Strategy
Witnesses: Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope GCB OBE ADC, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen, Chief of the General Staff, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton KCB ADC, Chief of the Air Staff, Ministry of Defence
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European Scrutiny
Subject: Scrutiny performance of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
Witnesses: Baroness Wilcox, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: Rural Payments Agency
Witnesses: Mark Grimshaw, Chief Executive, Rural Payments Agency
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Public Accounts
Subject: Office of Rail; Regulation: Regulating Network Rail's Efficiency
Witnesses: Bill Emery, Chief Executive, Michael Lee, Director, Railway Planning and Performance, Paul McMahon, Deputy Director, Railways Markets and Economics, Office of Rail Regulation, and David Higgins, Chief Executive, Network Rail
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Thursday 12 May
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*Political and Constitutional Reform
Subject: Government's programme of political and constitutional reform
Witnesses: Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mark Harper MP, Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform
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Friday 13 May
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[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
16 – 20 May 2011
Monday 16 May
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Joint Committee on the Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills*
Witnesses: (at 4.15pm) Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary.
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4:00pm
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Committee Room 3, Palace of Westminster
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Public Accounts
Subject: IT Landscape Review
Witnesses: Ian Watmore, Chief Operating Officer, Efficiency and Reform Group, Cabinet Office, and Joe Harley, Government Chief Information Officer, Cabinet Office
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4:00pm
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Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
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Work and Pensions
Subject: Child Maintenance
Witnesses: Gingerbread, Fatherhood Institute, Centre for Separated Families, Caroline Bryson, social science researcher, and June Venters QC; Stephen Geraghty, former Commissioner, Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (at 5.45pm)
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4:30pm
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Tuesday 17 May
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Treasury
Subject: (i) Appointment to the Monetary Policy Committee; (ii) Appointments to the interim Financial Policy Committee
Witnesses: (i) Ben Broadbent; (ii) Sir Richard Lambert (at 10.30am); Donald Kohn (at 11.15am)
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9:45am
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Education
Subject: Special Educational Needs Green Paper
Witnesses: Lorraine Petersen OBE, National Association for Special Educational Needs, Jane McConnell, Independent Parental Special Education Advice, Professor Geoff Lindsay, Director, CEDAR, University of Warwick, Sue Bourne, Head, The Avenue School, Reading; Sarah Teather MP, Minister of State, Department for Education (at 11.15am)
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10:00am
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Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
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International Development
Subject: Infrastructure
Witnesses: Dr Claire Curtis-Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, Institution of Gas Engineers and Managers; Robert Petts, Principal, Intech Associates Consulting Engineers, David Ward, Executive Secretary, Commission for Global Road Safety (at 11.00am)
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10:15am
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Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
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Culture, Media and Sport*
Subject: London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Witnesses: Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
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10:30am
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Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
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Business, Innovation and Skills*
Subject: The future of higher education
Witnesses: Professor Lorraine Dearden, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Professor Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, London School of Economics; Dr Gavan Conlon, London Economics (at 10.30am) Carl Gilleard, Chief Executive, Association of Graduate Recruiters; Matthew Jaffa, Deputy Head of Policy, Federation of Small Businesses; Oliver Tant, Head of Audit at KPMG (at 11.45am)
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10:30am
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Committee Room 15, Palace of Westminster
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Public Administration
Subject: Public Bodies Bill
Witnesses: Professor the Lord Norton of Louth and Baroness Thomas of Winchester
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10:30am
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Committee Room 21, Palace of Westminster
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Justice
Subject: Pre-appointment hearing: Prison and Probation Ombudsman
Witnesses: (i) Nigel Newcomen OBE, preferred candidate (ii) Jonathan Ledger, General Secretary, NAPO, and Matthew Lay, Chair Probation Committee, UNISON (at 11.30am)
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10:30am
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Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
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Health
Subject: Public Health
Witnesses: Professor David Hunter, Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Health, Durham University, Professor Lindsey Davies, Chair and President, Faculty of Public Health, Angela Mawle, Chief Executive, UK Public Health Association, and Dr Fiona Sim, Vice Chair, Royal Society for Public Health
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10:30am
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Committee Room 5, Palace of Westminster
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Home Affairs
Subject: The New Landscape of Policing, Work of the UK Border Agency
Witnesses: (i) David Horne, National Policing Improvements Agency (Procurement); Terry Skinner, Chair, Justice and Emergency Services Information Communication Association (JESICA) Group, Intellect, and Tracey Lee, Head of Emergency Services, Steria (at 11.30am); Bill Crothers, Group Commercial Director, Home Office, and Nigel Smith, former Chief Executive, Office of Government Commerce (at 12.00pm); (ii) John Vine, Independent Chief Inspector, UKBA (at 12.30pm)
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11:00am
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The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
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Back Bench Business
Subject: Proposals for backbench debates
Witnesses: Members of Parliament
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1:00pm
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Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
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Liaison*
Subject: Oral Evidence from the Prime Minister
Witnesses: The Prime Minister
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4:00pm
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The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
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Wednesday 18 May
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Draft Defamation Bill
Subject: To consider the Bill
Witnesses: Sophie Farthing, Policy Officer, Liberty, David Marshall, Senior In-House Lawyer, Which?, Charmian Gooch, Director, Global Witness, Rowan Davies, Campaigns Organiser, Mumsnet; Rt Hon the Lord Mackay of Clashfern KT, Former Lord High Chancellor, and Rt Hon the Lord Wakeham DL, Former Chairman, Press Complaints Commission
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9:30am
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Committee Room 6, Palace of Westminster
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Education
Subject: 16–19 participation in education and training
Witnesses: Joanne McAllister, Cumbria County Council 14-19 support team, Professor Tony Watts, Life President, National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling, Martin Doel, Chief Executive, Association of Colleges, Allan Foulds, Head of Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre, Association of School and College Leaders; Brooke House Sixth Form College (at 10.30am)
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9:30am
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Work and Pensions
Subject: Migration from Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance
Witnesses: Atos Healthcare; Professor Malcolm Harrington (at 10.30am)
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9:30am
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The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
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Justice
Subject: The role of the Probation Service
Witnesses: Clive Martin, Director, Clinks, Rob Smith, Chief Executive, YSS, Chris Wright, Director of Operations, Catch22, and Andrew Neilson, Assistant Director for Public Affairs and Policy, Howard League
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9:30am
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Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
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Transport
Subject: The Coastguard, emergency towing vessels and the Maritime Incident Response Group
Witnesses: Steve Brown, Training and Development Manager, Cornwall Fire and Rescue, Andy Brigden, Maritime Manager, Cornwall Council, Capt. Mark Samson, Falmouth Harbour Commissioner, and Rob Grose, Chairman, Truro and Penryn Harbour Forum; Jon Gifford, Honorary President, National Coastwatch Institution, Gus Lewis, Head of Legal and Government Affairs, Royal Yachting Association, and Capt. Kevin Richardson, President, UK Harbour Masters Association (at 12.30pm)
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11:45am
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The Falmouth Hotel, Cornwall
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Defence*
Subject: The Strategic Defence and Security Review and the National Security Strategy
Witnesses: Air Chief Marshal (rtd) Lord Stirrup GCB, AFC, former Chief of the Defence Staff; General (rtd) Sir Rupert Smith KCB, DSO, OBE, QGM (at 3.30pm)
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2:30pm
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The Wilson Room, Portcullis House
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Environmental Audit
Subject: Budget 2011 and environmental taxes
Witnesses: Justine Greening MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, HM Treasury and officials
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2:50pm
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The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Subject: EU proposals for the dairy industry
Witnesses: Rt Hon James Paice MP, Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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3:00pm
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Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
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Procedure
Subject: Lay Membership of the Committee of Standards and Privileges
Witnesses: Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP, Chair, Committee on Standards and Privileges
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3:15pm
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Committee Room 20, Palace of Westminster
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Thursday 19 May
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Transport
Subject: The Coastguard, emergency towing vessels and the Maritime Incident Response Group
Witnesses: Councillor Michael Foxley, Leader of the Administration, The Highland Council, Robert Paterson, Director of Health and Safety, Oil and Gas UK, Tom Piper, Co-ordinator, KIMO UK, Angus Campbell, Leader, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council), and Shetland Islands Council
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11:45am
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The Caladh Inn, Stornoway
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Friday 20 May
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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