Apprenticeships: Government Response to the Second Joint Report of Session 2016–17

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Committee’s name was changed, from the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, on 17 October 2016.

Current membership

Rachel Reeves MP (Labour, Leeds West) (Chair)

Vernon Coaker MP (Labour, Gedling)

Drew Hendry MP (Scottish National Party, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)

Stephen Kerr MP (Conservative, Stirling)

Peter Kyle MP (Labour, Hove)

Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger MP (Conservative, Bridgwater and West Somerset)

Rachel Maclean MP (Conservative, Redditch)

Albert Owen MP (Labour, Ynys Môn)

Mark Pawsey MP (Conservative, Rugby)

Antoinette Sandbach MP (Conservative, Eddisbury)

Anna Turley MP (Labour (Co-op), Redcar)

The Education Committee

The Education Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for Education and its associated public bodies.

Current membership

Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP (Conservative, Harlow) (Chair)

Lucy Allan MP (Conservative, Telford)

Michelle Donelan MP (Conservative, Chippenham)

Marion Fellows MP (Scottish National Party, Motherwell and Wishaw)

James Frith MP (Labour, Bury North)

Emma Hardy MP (Labour, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)

Trudy Harrison MP (Conservative, Copeland)

Ian Mearns MP (Labour, Gateshead)

Lucy Powell MP (Labour (Co-op), Manchester Central)

Thelma Walker MP (Labour, Colne Valley)

Mr William Wragg MP (Conservative, Hazel Grove)

Powers

The Committees are 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 Committees’ website at www.parliament.uk/beis and www.parliament.uk/education-committee and in print by Order of the House.

Evidence relating to this report is published on the inquiry publications page of the Committees’ website.

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

Committee staff

The current staff of the Committee are Chris Shaw (Clerk), Ben Sneddon (Second Clerk), Ian Cruse (Committee Specialist), Jeanne Delebarre (Committee Specialist), Becky Mawhood (Committee Specialist), James McQuade (Senior Committee Assistant), Jonathan Olivier Wright (Committee Assistant) and Gary Calder (Senior Media Officer).

Contacts

All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 5777; the Committee’s email address is beiscom@parliament.uk.

Education Committee

Committee staff

The current staff of the Committee are Richard Ward (Clerk), Katya Cassidy (Second Clerk), Anna Connell-Smith (Committee Specialist), Chloë Cockett (Committee Specialist), Madeline Williams (Inquiry Manager) Jonathan Arkless (Senior Committee Assistant), Hajera Begum (Committee Apprentice), Gary Calder (Senior Media Officer), and Oliver Florence (Media Officer).

Contacts

All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Education Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 1376; the Committee’s email address is educom@parliament.uk.





9 November 2017