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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 Ministers1
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 Office1
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 England1
Youth Justice Board for England and Wales

United Kingdom Statistics Authority

1

1

Appearances by other witnesses: 99

Overseas Visits
DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
26.2-2.3.12Washington DC and Ottawa Jenkin, Cairns, Flynn, Hopkins, Mulholland 3AInquiry into Strategic thinking in Government £31,796

A Includes a specialist adviser

Visits to European Institutions

None

UK Visits
DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
15.2.11VocaLink site, Debden and Facebook offices, London Jenkin, Flynn, Halfon 2AInquiry into Government and IT £390
13.6.11Balsall Heath, Birmingham Jenkin, Mulholland, Roy 2Inquiry into Big Society £440
10.11.11Emmaus charity, South LondonB Jenkin, Flynn2 Inquiry into Big Society £60

A Includes a specialist adviser

B Travel in a representative capacity

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
TitleHC No. (2010-12) Date of publication Government reply
First Report: Who does UK National Strategy? 43519.10.10 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? 15021.10.10 Not required
Third Report: Equitable Life 48515.10.10 Cm 7960, published 21.10.11
Oral Evidence: Equitable Life 485-i9.11.10 Not applicable
Fourth Report: Pre-appointment hearing for the dual post of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments 60118.11.10 Not required
Oral Evidence: Pre-appointment hearing for the dual post of First Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments 601-i5.1.11 Not applicable
Fifth Report: Smaller Government: Shrinking the Quango State 5377.1.11 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 71328.1.11 Not required
Seventh Report: Smaller Government: What do Ministers do? 53010.3.11 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 9001.4.11 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-I8.7.11 Not required
Oral evidence: Pre-appointment hearing for the post of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 1220-II12.7.11 Not applicable
Tenth Report: Remuneration of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 13508.7.11 Not required
Eleventh Report: Good Governance and Civil Service Reform: 'End of Term' report on Whitehall plans for structural reform 90118.7.11 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-I28.7.11 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-II28.7.11 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 71422.9.11 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 138919.10.11 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 154031.10.11 Received 19.12.11: published with Eighteenth Report, Session 2010-12
Sixteenth Report: Appointment of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority 910-I6.12.11 Not required
Oral and Written Evidence: Appointment of the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority 910-II9.1.12 Not applicable
Seventeenth Report: The Big Society 902-I14.12.11 Awaited
Oral and Written Evidence: The Big Society 902-II14.12.11 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 174616.1.12 Not required
Nineteenth Report: Leadership of change: New arrangements for the roles of the Head of the Civil Service and the Cabinet Secretary 158220.1.12 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 172426.1.12 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 16218.3.12 Awaited
Twenty-Second Report: The Prime Minister's adviser on Ministers' interests: independent or not? 176117.3.12 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 191428.3.12 Awaited
Twenty-Fourth Report: Strategic thinking in Government: without National Strategy, can viable Government strategy emerge? 162524.4.12 Awaited
Additional Written Evidence published on the Internet: Strategic thinking in Government: without National Strategy, can viable Government strategy emerge? 112724.4.12 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 193019.4.12 Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Civil Service Compensation Scheme 397-i7.10.10 Not applicable
Oral Evidence: Work of the Cabinet Office 555-i14.1.11 Not applicable
Oral Evidence: Work of the First Civil Service Commissioner and the Commissioner for Public Appointments 673-i24.1.11 Not applicable
Oral Evidence: Departmental Business Plans 693-i28.2.11 Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Business Appointment Rules 780-i28.4.11 Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Ombudsman 781-i18.4.11 Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Public Bodies Bill 909-i22.8.11 Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Charity Commission 1542-i2.4.12 Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Work of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 1626-i2.4.12 Not applicable
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules 1762-i13.3.12 Not applicable
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules 1762-ii26.3.12 Not applicable
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules 1762-iii11.4.12 Not applicable
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules 1762-iv18.4.12 Not applicable
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Cabinet Office Business Plan 1889-i3.4.12 Not applicable
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Business Appointment Rules 1762-v26.4.12 Not applicable
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Honours System 1921-i27.4.12 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
DateSubject
11.1.12One, on whether to inquire into the decision to ignore the provisions of the Ministerial Code in the investigation conducted into the Fox/Werrity affair
14.3.12Two, 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
InquiryNumber 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 Life1
Funding of Voluntary Sector 3
Good Governance and the Civil Service 3
Head of Civil Service 6
IT for Government5
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
Total62 A

A At one meeting of the Committee evidence was taken in more than one inquiry


 
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