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Ho u s e o f Co m m o n s - up d at e d 9 J an ua ry
Select Committee Calendar 2015
This calendar provides advance information about all public select committee meetings,
publication dates of reports & debates on select committee reports in Westminster Hall.
Please note: Advance information is provisional & may be subject to change at short notice. For certainty,
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Further information: Full details of evidence sessions this week can be found at
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January
DATE
TIME
COMMITTEE
Friday 9
January
00.01
Public Accounts
Monday 12
January
00.01
Human Rights
10.00
Environment,
Food and Rural
Affairs
10.30
Joint Committee
on Statutory
Instruments
14.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
INQUIRY
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
SUBJECT
Publication of Report :
Funding healthcare:
making allocations to
local areas HC 676:
Twenty-fifth Report of
Session 2014-15
Publication of Report :
Legislative Scrutiny:
Counter-Terrorism and
Security Bill HC 859:
Fifth Report of Session
2014-15
Publication of Report :
Waste Management in
England: Government
response to the
Committee's Fourth
Report of Session 2014 15 HC 921: Fifth Special
Report of Session 2014-15
Publication of Report :
Seventeenth Report of
Session 2014-15 HC 332xvii
Oral Evidence Session
Alexander Rukin, Ray and
Kristen Watkin, Jennifer
Evans, Josephine Cauvain,
Peter and Lesley Tacon,
Andrew Gibbs and others,
Sylvia Clifford, Jeremy and
Susan Marshall, Andrew
and Jennifer Jones and
David Brown
LOCATION
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
Tuesday 13
January
15.15
Public Accounts
Children in Care
16.00
European
Scrutiny
2014 Block optout decision:
follow up
16.05
Transport
Strategic river
crossings
16.30
Work and
Pensions
Progress with
automatic
enrolment and
pension reforms
17.15
Political and
Constitutional
Reform
What next on the
redrawing of
Parliamentary
boundaries?
19.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Public Accounts
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Public
Administration
Whitehall:
capacity to
address future
challenges
00.01
09.30
Oral Evidence Session
Alan Wood, President,
Association of Directors of
Children's Services, David
Graham, National Director,
Care Leavers Association
and Matthew Horton, Head
of Business, Family
Placement (Adoption and
Fostering), Barnardo's;
Chris Wormald, Permanent
Secretary, Department for
Education, Tom Jeffery,
former Director General for
Children's Services,
Department for Education,
Paul Kissack, Director
General for Children's
Services, Department for
Education, Sir Michael
Wilshaw, Chief Inspector,
Ofsted and Debbie Jones,
Director of Social Care,
Ofsted
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon Theresa May MP,
Secretary of State for the
Home Department and Rt
Hon Chris Grayling MP,
Secretary of State for
Justice
Oral Evidence Session
Michèle Dix, Managing
Director, Planning,
Transport for London,
Isabel Dedring, Deputy
Mayor for Transport,
Greater London Authority
and Colin Stanbridge, Chief
Executive, London
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry; Councillor
Rodney Bass, Cabinet
Member for Highways and
Transportation, Essex
County Council, Councillor
Denise Hyland, Leader,
Royal Borough of
Greenwich, Paul Carter,
Leader, Kent County
Council, Sir Robin Wales,
Mayor of Newham and
Councillor John Kent,
Leader, Thurrock Council;
Lord Adonis and Lord
Heseltine
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon Steve Webb MP,
Minister of State for
Pensions, Department for
Work and Pensions
Oral Evidence Session
Lewis Baston; Sam Gyimah
MP, Minister for the
Constitution, Cabinet
Office
Oral Evidence Session
As for afternoon session,
unless already heard.
Publication of Report :
Housing benefit fraud
and error HC 706:
Twenty-seventh Report of
Session 2014-15
Oral Evidence Session
Sir Nicholas Macpherson,
Permanent Secretary, HM
Treasury
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster
The Thatcher
Room,
Portcullis
House
The Wilson
Room,
Portcullis
House
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
09.30
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
10.00
Energy and
Climate Change
Implementation
of Electricity
Market Reform
10.00
Welsh Affairs
Prisons in Wales
and treatment of
Welsh offenders
11.30
Scottish Affairs
13.00
Backbench
Business
14.00
Northern Ireland
Affairs
Impact of closure
of City Link on
employment in
Scotland
Proposals for
backbench
debates
Administrative
scheme for “onthe-runs”
14.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Draft Protection
of Charities Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Draft Protection
of Charities Bill
14.30
Foreign Affairs
The UK's relations
with Hong Kong:
30 years after the
Joint Declaration
14.30
Health
2015
accountability
hearing with the
Nursing and
Midwifery Council
16.15
Communities and
Local
Government
Performance of
the Department
for Communities
and Local
Government
2013-14
14.15
Oral Evidence Session
Adrian Hickinbottom,
Robert Meakin and
Catherine Morgan, Lorna
Hobbs, Dr Paul and Dr
Sandra Thornton,
Kenilworth Town Council,
Ashley Ball and Nicholas
and Nicola Hillard
Oral Evidence Session
Mark Ripley, Director of
Regulation, National Grid
and Neil McDermott, CEO,
Low Carbon Contracts
Company; Rt Hon Matthew
Hancock MP, Minister of
State for Energy, and
Jonathan Mills, Director of
EMR, DECC
Oral Evidence Session
Juliet Lyon, Director,
Prison Reform Trust,
Rachel Halford, Women in
Prison and Robert Jones,
Wales Governance Centre,
Cardiff University
Oral Evidence Session
Mick Cash, General
Secretary, Rail, Maritime
and Transport Workers
Oral Evidence Session
Members of Parliament
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon Tony Blair
Oral Evidence Session
As for morning session,
unless already heard.
Oral Evidence Session
Rob Wilson MP, Minister
for Civil Society, Cabinet
Office
Oral Evidence Session
Lord Powell of Bayswa ter,
Hong Kong Association and
Sir Anthony Galsworthy,
Hong Kong Association; Rt
Hon Hugo Swire MP,
Minister of State, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office,
Stephen Lillie (Director,
Asia-Pacific) and Gareth
Ward (Head of China Dept)
FCO
Oral Evidence Session
Jackie Smith, Chief
Executive and Registrar,
Nursing and Midwifery
Council and Professor
Dame Janet Finch, Chair,
Nursing and Midwifery
Council
Oral Evidence Session
Sir Bob Kerslake,
Permanent Secretary,
Department for
Communities and Local
Government and Helen
Edwards CB CBE, Director General - Localism,
Department for
Communities and Local
Government
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
Room 16,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 19,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster
The Wilson
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
Room 3, Palace
of Westminster
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 6, Palace
of Westminster
The Thatcher
Room,
Portcullis
House
Wednesday
14 January
09.15
Science and
Technology
The Legacy Report
2010-15
09.30
Education
Apprenticeships
and traineeships
for 16 to 19 year
olds
09.30
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
10.00
International
Development
Sub-Committee
on the Work of
the Independent
Commission for
Aid Impact
ICAI's Report on
the International
Climate Fund
10.15
Environmental
Audit
Environmental
risks of fracking
10.30
Public
Administration
Work of the Chief
Executive of the
Civil Service
12.50
European
Scrutiny
Scrutiny Inquiry:
follow up
14.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Oral Evidence Session
George Eustice MP,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Farming, Food and Marine
Environment, Department
for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs; Lord Bates,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Criminal Information,
Home Office
Oral Evidence Session
Nick Boles MP, Minister of
State for Skills and
Equalities, Department for
Education
Oral Evidence Session
Mark and Candida Evans,
Roger Warren, Richard
Saward, Paul Hunt, Avtar
Singh and others, Joe and
Grace Elliott, Dr Alexandra
Daley, New Kingswood
Farm Ltd, Richard and
Janette Kenyon, Kenneth
and Shirley Baker, Mark
and Naomi Tailby, Otter &
Co and Kenilworth Golf
Club
Oral Evidence Session
Graham Ward, Chief
Commissioner and
Catherine Cameron, Team
Leader, Independent
Commission for Aid
Impact; Nick Dyer,
Director General Policy and
Global Programmes,
Andrea Ledward, Head of
Climate and Environment
Department, Department
for International
Development and Katrina
Williams, Direc tor, General
International Science and
Resilience, Department for
Energy and Climate Chnage
Oral Evidence Session
Tom Burke, Chair of E3G,
Professor Paul Stevens,
Chatham House and Dr
John Broderick, Research
Fellow, Tyndall Centre
Manchester
Oral Evidence Sess ion
John Manzoni, Chief
Executive of the Civil
Service
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon David Lidington MP,
Minister for Europe,
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office and Ivan Rogers,
Her Britannic Majesty's
Permanent Representative
to the European Union
Oral Evidence Session
As for morning session,
unless already heard.
The Thatcher
Room,
Portcullis
House
The Wilson
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 16,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
14.05
Transport
Railway network
disruption over
Christmas
14.15
Environmental
Audit
Environmental
risks of fracking
14.15
Treasury
Bank of England
December 2014
Financial Stability
Report
14.15
Public Accounts
The effective
management of
tax reliefs
14.30
Scottish Affairs
The Smith
Commission:
Proposals for
Further
Devolution to
Scotland
14.30
Defence
Decision-making
in Defence Policy
14.30
European
Scrutiny
Scrutiny Inquiry:
follow up
Oral Evidence Session
Mark Carne, Chief
Executive, Network Rail
and Robin Gisby, Managing
Director, Network
Operations, Network Rail;
Richard Price, Chief
Executive, Office of Rail
Regulation and Joanna
Whittington, Director,
Railway Markets and
Economics, Office of Rail
Regulation
Oral Evidence Session
Dr Tony Grayling, Director
of Sustainable Business
and Development,
Environment and Business,
Environment Agency, Mark
Ellis Jones, Environment
and Business Manager,
Climate Change Energy and
Emerging Issues,
Environment Agency and
Jane Burston, Head of
Centre for Carbon
Measurement, National
Physical Laboratory; Lord
Smith, Chair of Task Force
on Shale Gas and Steve
Thompsett, Director, UK
Onshore Oil & Gas
Oral Evidence Session
Dr Mark Carney, Governor,
Bank of England, Sir Jon
Cunliffe, Deputy Governor,
Financial Stability, Bank of
England, Dame Clara
Furse, External member,
Financial Policy Committee
and Martin Taylor, External
Policy Member, Financial
Policy Committee
Oral Evidence Session
Lin Homer, Chief Executive
and Permanent Secretary,
HM Revenue and Customs,
Jim Harra, Director
General, Business Tax, HM
Revenue and Customs and
Indra Morris, Director
General, Tax and Welfare,
HM Treasury
Oral Evidence Session
David Philips, Senior
Research Economist,
Institute for Fiscal Studies
and Professor John
McLaren, Honorary
Professor of Public Policy,
Adam Smith Business
School, University of
Glasgow
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon Lord West of
Spithead, former First Sea
Lord and Sir Nick Harvey
MP, former Minister of
State for the Armed
Forces, Ministry of Defence
Oral Evidence Session
Rona Fairhead CBE,
Chairman of the BBC Trust
The Thatcher
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 16,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 6, Palace
of Westminster
The Wilson
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster