34 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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The Committee was nominated by the House of Commons
on 12 July 2010.
Members
Jenkin, Mr Bernard (Chair)
Brennan, Kevin (discharged 17.1.11)
Cairns, Alun (added 9.5.11)
de Bois, Nick (discharged 5.12.11)
Dugher, Michael
Elphicke, Charlie
Flynn, Paul
Halfon, Robert
Heyes, David (added 26.7.10)
Hopkins, Kelvin (added 17.1.11)
Mulholland, Greg
Patel, Priti (added 5.12.11)
Roy, Lindsay (added 2.11.10)
Trickett, Jon (added 26.7.10 discharged 2.11.10)
Walker, Mr Charles (discharged 9.5.11)
Overall Attendance:
| Meetings attended
81 out of 82
6 out of 19
29 out of 48
30 out of 62
2 out of 82
45 out of 82
65 out of 82
66 out of 82
36 out of 81
56 out of 63
52 out of 82
15 out of 20
47 out of 71
0 out of 10
15 out of 34
60.6 %
|
Total number of meetings:
| 82 |
Of which: |
|
Number of meetings at which oral evidence was taken
| 61 |
Number of times oral evidence was taken partly or wholly in private
| 1 |
Number of wholly private meetings
| 21 |
Other activities | |
Informal meetings (including overseas visitors)
| 17 |
| |
Staff
Details of the permanent staff of the Committee during
the Session can be found in the Committee's publications.
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Simon Briscoe, Dr Jon Davis, Mr Chris Donnelly,
Mr Jerry Fishenden, Dr Catherine Haddon,
Professor Robert Hazell CBE, Professor Andrew Kakabadse,
Professor the Lord Norton of Louth,
Professor Martin Partington CBE QC, Rt Hon Mr Peter
Riddell, Ms Catarina Tully, Mr James Wise, and Professor Graham
Zellick CBE QC
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Ministers | 1
|
Ministers (other than Cabinet Ministers)
| 19 |
Members of the House of Commons (other than Ministers)
| 1 |
Members of the House of Lords
| 17 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
Cabinet Office
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
| 10
1
|
Ministry of Defence |
2 |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
| 1 |
HM Revenue and Customs
| 1 |
Home Office | 1
|
Ministry of Justice
Department for Work and Pensions
| 2
1
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| |
Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
Appointments Commission
Charity Commission
| 1
2
1
1
|
Committee on Standards in Public Life
| 1 |
National Policing Improvement Agency
| 1 |
Office of the Civil Service Commissioners
| 2 |
Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 2 |
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 3 |
Sport England | 1
|
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
United Kingdom Statistics Authority
| 1
1
|
Appearances by other witnesses:
| 99 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
26.2-2.3.12 | Washington DC and Ottawa
| Jenkin, Cairns, Flynn, Hopkins, Mulholland
| 3A | Inquiry into Strategic thinking in Government
| £31,796 |
A
Includes a specialist adviser
Visits to European Institutions
None
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
15.2.11 | VocaLink site, Debden and Facebook offices, London
| Jenkin, Flynn, Halfon |
2A | Inquiry into Government and IT
| £390 |
13.6.11 | Balsall Heath, Birmingham
| Jenkin, Mulholland, Roy
| 2 | Inquiry into Big Society
| £440 |
10.11.11 | Emmaus charity, South LondonB
| Jenkin, Flynn | 2
| Inquiry into Big Society
| £60 |
A
Includes a specialist adviser
B
Travel in a representative capacity
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2010-12)
| Date of publication
| Government reply
|
First Report: Who does UK National Strategy?
| 435 | 19.10.10
| Received 21.12.10: published with Sixth Report, Session 2010-12
|
Second Report: Government Responses to the Committee's Eighth and Ninth Reports of Session 2009-10: Goats and Tsars: Ministerial and other appointments from outside Parliament and Too Many Ministers?
| 150 | 21.10.10
| Not required |
Third Report: Equitable Life
| 485 | 15.10.10
| Cm 7960, published 21.10.11
|
Oral Evidence: Equitable Life
| 485-i | 9.11.10
| Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Pre-appointment hearing for the dual post of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 601 | 18.11.10
| Not required |
Oral Evidence: Pre-appointment hearing for the dual post of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 601-i | 5.1.11
| Not applicable |
Fifth Report: Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango State
| 537 | 7.1.11
| Cm 8044, published 16.3.11
|
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango State
| | 7.1.11
| Not applicable |
Sixth Report: Who does UK Grand Strategy? Further Report with the Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2010-11
| 713 | 28.1.11
| Not required |
Seventh Report: Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?
| 530 | 10.3.11
| Received 19.07.11: published with Fifteenth Report, Session 2010-12
|
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?
| | 10.3.11
| Not applicable |
Eighth Report: Cabinet Manual
| 900 | 1.4.11
| Interim response received 27.05.11: published as First Special Report, Session 2010-12. Substantive response Cm 8213, published 24.10.11
|
Ninth Report: Pre-appointment hearing for the post of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 1220-I | 8.7.11
| Not required |
Oral evidence: Pre-appointment hearing for the post of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 1220-II | 12.7.11
| Not applicable |
Tenth Report: Remuneration of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 1350 | 8.7.11
| Not required |
Eleventh Report: Good Governance and Civil Service Reform: 'End of Term' report on Whitehall plans for structural reform
| 901 | 18.7.11
| Received 19.12.11: published with Eighteenth Report, Session 2010-12
|
Twelfth Report: Government and IT "a recipe for rip-offs": time for a new approach
| 715-I | 28.7.11
| Received 26.10.11: published with Twentieth Report, Session 2010-12
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Government and IT "a recipe for rip-offs": time for a new approach
| 715-II | 28.7.11
| Not applicable |
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: Government and IT "a recipe for rip-offs": time for a new approach
| | 28.7.11
| Not applicable |
Thirteenth Report: Change in Government: the agenda for leadership
| 714 | 22.9.11
| Received 19.12.11: published with Eighteenth Report, Session 2010-12
|
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: Change in Government: the agenda for leadership
| | 22.9.11
| Not applicable |
Fourteenth Report: Public Appointments: regulation, recruitment and pay
| 1389 | 19.10.11
| Awaited |
Fifteenth Report: Smaller Government: What do Ministers do? Further Report, with the Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2010-12
| 1540 | 31.10.11
| Received 19.12.11: published with Eighteenth Report, Session 2010-12
|
Sixteenth Report: Appointment of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
| 910-I | 6.12.11
| Not required |
Oral and Written Evidence: Appointment of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
| 910-II | 9.1.12
| Not applicable |
Seventeenth Report: The Big Society
| 902-I | 14.12.11
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: The Big Society
| 902-II | 14.12.11
| Not applicable |
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: The Big Society
| | 14.12.11
| Not applicable |
Eighteenth Report: Change in Government: the agenda for leadership: Further Report, with the Government Response to the Committee's Eleventh, Thirteenth and Fifteenth Reports of Session 2010-12
| 1746 | 16.1.12
| Not required |
Nineteenth Report: Leadership of change: New arrangements for the roles of the Head of the Civil Service and the Cabinet Secretary
| 1582 | 20.1.12
| Received 19.03.12: published with Twenty-Third Report, Session 2010-12
|
Twentieth Report: Government and IT - "a recipe for rip-offs": time for a new approach: Further Report, with the Government Response to the Committee's Twelfth Report of 2010-12
| 1724 | 26.1.12
| Received 27.01.12: published as First Special Report, Session 2010-12
|
Twenty-First Report: Future oversight of administrative justice: the proposed abolition of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council
| 1621 | 8.3.12
| Awaited |
Twenty-Second Report: The Prime Minister's adviser on Ministers' interests: independent or not?
| 1761 | 17.3.12
| Awaited |
Twenty-Third Report: Leadership of change: new arrangements for the roles of the Head of the Civil Service and the Cabinet Secretary, further report with the Government Response to the Committee's Nineteenth Report of Session 2010-12
| 1914 | 28.3.12
| Awaited |
Twenty-Fourth Report: Strategic thinking in Government: without National Strategy, can viable Government strategy emerge?
| 1625 | 24.4.12
| Awaited |
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: Strategic thinking in Government: without National Strategy, can viable Government strategy emerge?
| 1127 | 24.4.12
| Not applicable |
First Special Report: Cabinet Manual: Government Interim Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2010-12
| | 13.6.11
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Government and IT "a recipe for rip-offs": time for a new approach: Further Report: Government Response to the Committee's Twentieth Report of Session 2010-12
| 1930 | 19.4.12
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Civil Service Compensation Scheme
| 397-i | 7.10.10
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Work of the Cabinet Office
| 555-i | 14.1.11
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Work of the First Civil Service Commissioner and the Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 673-i | 24.1.11
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Departmental Business Plans
| 693-i | 28.2.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Business Appointment Rules
| 780-i | 28.4.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Ombudsman
| 781-i | 18.4.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Public Bodies Bill
| 909-i | 22.8.11
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Charity Commission
| 1542-i | 2.4.12
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 1626-i | 2.4.12
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules
| 1762-i | 13.3.12
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules
| 1762-ii | 26.3.12
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules
| 1762-iii | 11.4.12
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules
| 1762-iv | 18.4.12
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Cabinet Office Business Plan
| 1889-i | 3.4.12
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules
| 1762-v | 26.4.12
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Honours System
| 1921-i | 27.4.12
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules
| | 29.2.12
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2009-10
Replies to the Committee's Eighth and Ninth Reports:
Goats and Tsars: Ministerial and other appointments from outside
Parliament and Too Many Ministers?, received 21.9.10 and published
with the Committee's Second Report, Session 2010-12.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-administration-select-committee/formal-minutes/.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
11.1.12 | One, on whether to inquire into the decision to ignore the provisions of the Ministerial Code in the investigation conducted into the Fox/Werrity affair
|
14.3.12 | Two, on consideration of the Chair's draft Report on The Prime Minister's adviser on Ministers' interests: independent or not?
|
Debates
The following Report was debated in the House:
Seventh Report, Session 2010-12, Smaller Government:
What do Ministers do?, HC 530, 10.3.11
The following Reports were tagged on the Order Paper
as being relevant to a debate in the House:
First Report, Session 2010-12, Who does UK National
Strategy? HC 435, 4.11.10
Fifth Report, Session 2010-12, Smaller Government:
Shrinking the Quango State, HC 537, 12.07.11
Ninth Report, Session 2010-12, Pre-appointment
hearing for the post of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman,
HC 1220, 19.07.11
Tenth Report, Session 2010-12, Remuneration of
the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, HC 1350, 19.07.11
Sixteenth Report, Session 2010-12, Appointment
of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, HC 1350, 13.12.11
Number of oral evidence sessions for each inquiry
during the Session
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Appointment of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority
| 3 |
Business Appointment Rules
| 1 |
Business Appointments |
5 |
Cabinet Office Business Plan
| 1 |
Civil Service Compensation Scheme/Work of the Cabinet Office
| 1 |
Departmental Business Plans
| 1 |
Equitable Life | 1
|
Funding of Voluntary Sector
| 3 |
Good Governance and the Civil Service
| 3 |
Head of Civil Service |
6 |
IT for Government | 5
|
Oversight of Administrative Justice
| 1 |
Pre-appointment hearing for the dual post of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 1 |
Pre-appointment hearing for the post of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 1 |
Public Appointments |
2 |
Public Bodies Bill |
1 |
Role of the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests
| 1 |
Smaller Government: Bigger Society
| 6 |
Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango State
| 3 |
Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?
| 3 |
Strategic Thinking in Government
| 4 |
The Honours System |
1 |
Who does UK National Strategy?
| 3 |
Work of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 1 |
Work of the Cabinet Office
| 1 |
Work of the Charity Commission
| 1 |
Work of the Ombudsman |
1 |
Work of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 1 |
Total | 62 A
|
A
At one meeting of the Committee evidence was taken in more than
one inquiry
|