Review of House of Lords investigative and scrutiny committee activity in 2023–24 Contents

Appendix 1: Activity indicators by financial year

2019/20 (Joint Committees)

2020/21 (Joint Committees)

2021/22 (Joint Committees)

2022/23 (Joint Committees)

2023/24 (Joint Committees)

Number of committees/sub- committees

24 (3)236

26 (3)237

24 (3)238

24 (3)239

24 (2)240

Number of committee meetings

386 (25)

658 (69)

615 (78)

525 (61)

560 (43)

Number of committee members241

219

224

244

235

297

Number of witnesses giving oral evidence

638 (35)

1,095 (108)

1,048 (166)

796 (163)

967 (98)

Number of written submissions received

1,040 (167)

2,342 (512)

1,397 (1073)

1,476 (353)

1,493 (287)

Number of reports published

58 (11)

81 (13)

65 (15)

55 (15)

51 (6)

Resource expenditure outturn

£4,500,524

£4,607,782

£4,872,752

£5,627,872

£6,333,057242


236 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill. Excluding Committee on the Draft Domestic Abuse Bill. Artificially high due to the late publication of 3 Special Inquiry Reports

237 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. Artificially high due to the transition between the former EU sub-committees and the new sessional committees.

238 Including JCHR, JCNSS and Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill

239 Including JCHR, JCNSS and the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill

240 Including JCHR and JCNSS

241 Number of members who have been a member of at least one investigative committee during the period stated

242 Provisional resource expenditure outturn




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