The Justice Committee
The Justice Committee is appointed by the House of
Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy
of the Ministry of Justice and its associated public bodies (including
the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts
and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases
and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales
Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland); and administration
and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury
Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the
Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments
and advice given within government by Law Officers).
Current membership
Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith
MP (Liberal Democrat, Berwick-upon-Tweed) (Chair)
Steve Brine MP (Conservative,
Winchester)
Rehman Chishti MP
(Conservative, Gillingham and Rainham)
Christopher Chope
MP (Conservative, Christchurch)
Jeremy Corbyn MP
(Labour, Islington North)
John Cryer MP (Labour,
Leyton and Wanstead)
Nick de Bois MP (Conservative,
Enfield North)
John Howell MP (Conservative,
Henley)
Rt Hon Elfyn Llwyd
MP (Plaid Cymru, Dwyfor Meirionnydd)
Andy McDonald MP
(Labour, Middlesbrough)
John McDonnell MP
(Labour, Hayes and Harlington)
Yasmin Qureshi MP
(Labour, Bolton South East)
The following Members were also members of the
Committee during the parliament:
Mr Robert Buckland
(Conservative, South Swindon); Christopher Evans (Labour/Co-operative,
Islwyn); Mrs Helen Grant (Conservative, Maidstone and The Weald);
Ben Gummer (Conservative, Ipswich); Mrs Siân C James (Labour,
Swansea East); Gareth Johnson (Conservative, Dartford); Jessica
Lee (Conservative, Erewash); Seema Malhotra (Labour/Co-operative,
Feltham and Heston) Robert Neill (Conservative, Bromley and Chislehurst);
Claire Perry (Conservative, Devizes); Mrs Linda Riordan (Labour/Co-operative,
Halifax), Anna Soubry (Conservative, Broxtowe); Graham Stringer
(Labour, Blackley and Broughton); Elizabeth Truss (Conservative,
South West Norfolk), Karl Turner (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East),
and Mike Weatherley (Conservative, Hove).
Powers
The committee is one of the departmental select committees,
the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders,
principally in SO No 152. These are available on the internet
via www.parliament.uk.
Publication
Committee reports are published on the Committee's
website at
http://www.parliament.uk/justicecttee and by The Stationery
Office by Order of the House. Evidence relating to this report
is published on the Committee's website at
http://www.parliament.uk/justicecttee.
Committee staff
The current staff
of the Committee are Nick Walker (Clerk), Daniel Whitford (Second
Clerk), Gemma Buckland (Senior Committee Specialist), Hannah Stewart
(Committee Legal Specialist), Ana Ferreira (Senior Committee Assistant),
Ellen Bloss (Committee Support Assistant), Conor Johnson, (Sandwich
Student) and Liz Parratt (Media Officer).
Contacts
All correspondence
should be addressed to the Clerk of the Justice Committee, House
of Commons, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB. The telephone
number for general enquiries is 020 7219 8198; the Committee's
email address is justicecom@parliament.uk
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