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 http://www.parliament.uk.
Publication
Committee reports are published on the Committee's
website at
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
www.parliament.uk/joint-enterprise-follow-up
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 (Committee Media Officer).
Contacts
Correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of
the Justice Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P
3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 8196
and the email address is justicecom@parliament.uk; our Twitter
handle is @commonsjustice.
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