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Ho u s e o f Co m m o n s - up d at e d 6 F eb ru a ry
Select Committee Calendar 2015
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February
DATE
TIME
COMMITTEE
Friday 6
February
00.01
Home Affairs
00.01
Public Accounts
10.30
Joint Committee
on Statutory
Instruments
11.00
European
Scrutiny
INQUIRY
SUBJECT
Publication of Report :
Policing and mental
health HC 202: Eleventh
Report of Session 2014-15
Publication of Report :
Tax avoidance: the role
of large accountancy
firms (follow-up) HC
860: Thirty-eighth Report
of Session 2014-15
Publication of Report :
Twenty-first Report of
Session 2014-15 HC 332xxi
Publication of Report :
Thirty-first Report of
Session 2014-15 HC 219xxx
LOCATION
Monday 9
February
10.00
Scottish Affairs
Our Borderlands Our Future
14.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
15.15
Public Accounts
Care for people
with learning
disabilities
16.00
Public Accounts
Care for people
with learning
disabilities
Oral Evidence Session
Michael Moore, MP for
Berwickshire, Roxburgh
and Selkirk; Jack Clark,
Chamber Convener,
Scottish Borders Chamber
of Commerce, Bruce
Simpson, Vice Convener,
Scottish Borders Chamber
of Commerce, Brian
Richardson, Dumfries and
Galloway Chamber of
Commerce, Paul Lewis,
Executive Leadership
Team, Scottish Enterprise
and Managing Director,
Sectors, Commercialisation
and Investment and
Alistair McKinnon, Director
South of Scotland and
Director Sustainable
Construction, Scottish
Enterprise; Gavin Yuill,
Managing Director of Yuill
Community Trust, Teresa
Dougall, Regional Manager
for South East/South West
area, Scottish Land and
Estates and Trevor
Jackson, Community
Councillor, Landowner, and
South East Committee
Member, Scottish Land and
Estates
Oral Evidence Session
Marlene Hills, Stratford on-Avon District Council,
Wormleighton and
Stoneton Parish Meeting,
Priors Hardwick Action
Group, Mr & Mrs Ian
Maclellan and Mrs
Jonathan Sadler, Simon
Darbishire, The Trustees of
the 8th Earl Spencer’s
Family Settlement and
Stop HS2
Oral Evidence Session
Sir Stephen Bubb, Chief
Executive, ACEVO, David
Congdon, adviser to the
Challenging Behaviour
Foundation and former
Head of Campaigns and
Policy, Mencap and Vivien
Cooper OBE, Chief
Executive of the
Challenging Behaviour
Foundation
Oral Evidence Session
Una O’Brien, Permanent
Secretary, Department of
Health, Jon Rouse,
Director General, Social
Care, Local Government
and Care Partnerships,
Dept of Health, Simon
Stevens, Chief Executive,
NHS England and Jane
Cummings, Chief Nursing
Officer, NHS England
Room 1005,
Borders
College,
Scottish
Borders
Campus,
Galashiels
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster
Tuesday 10
February
16.05
Transport
Strategic river
crossings
17.15
Political and
Constitutional
Reform
Constitutional
implications of
draft Scotland
clauses
19.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Environment,
Food and Rural
Affairs
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
09.30
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
09.30
Public
Administration
NHS Complaints
and Clinical
Failure
00.01
Oral Evidence Session
Eur Ing Sharon
Kindleysides, Chairman,
ITS United Kingdom, Mike
Llewelyn-Jones, Chair,
Roads Sector Interest
Group, Association of
Engineering and
Consultancy and Tim
Healy, Deputy Chair, Roads
Sector Interest Group,
Association of Engineering
and Consultancy; John
Hayes MP, Minister of
State, Department for
Transport, James Hooson,
Project Director for the
Lower Thames Crossing,
Department for Transport,
Graham Dalton, Chief
Executive, Highways
Agency and Penny
Mordaunt, Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of State,
Department for
Communities and Local
Government
Oral Evidence Session
Professor Sionaidh
Douglas-Scott, Professor of
European and Human
Rights Law, University of
Oxford, Dr Eve Hepburn,
Senior Lecturer in Politics,
University of Edinburgh
and Professor Michael
Keating, Professor of
Politics, University of
Aberdeen
Oral Evidence Session
As for afternoon session,
unless already heard.
Publication of Report :
Defra performance in
2013-14 HC 802: Eighth
Report of Session 2014-15
Oral Evidence Session
Greatworth Parish Council,
Nicolas Peart, Steven and
Rebecca Hunt, Robert and
Greta Haynes, James
Armstrong and Donna
Mardle, Timothy Griffiths,
Stuart and Jennifer
Griffiths, David and Eileen
Edwards, Andrew and
Myrtle Darby, Chester
O’Conner-Boyd, Nicholas
and Victoria Murphy,
Stephen and Ross Adkins,
Beti A Kibble, Mervyn and
Frank Humphrey, Ivan
Banister and other and
Lord Wellesley and others
Oral Evidence Session
Katherine Murphy, Chief
Executive, Patients
Association, Katherine
Rake, CEO, Healthwatch
England and Peter Walsh,
Action against Medical
Accidents (AvMA); Dame
Julie Mellor DBE,
Parliamentary and Health
Service Ombudsman and
Professor Sir Mike
Richards, Chief Inspector
of Hospitals, Care Quality
Commission (CQC)
Room 6, Palace
of Westminster
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
The Thatcher
Room,
Portcullis
House
10.00
Treasury
Financial Conduct
Authority
10.40
Communities and
Local
Government
Jay Report into
Child Sexual
Abuse in
Rotherham
13.00
Backbench
Business
14.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Scottish Affairs
Proposals for
backbench
debates
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
Impact of the
Closure of City
Link on
Employment
Impact of the
closure of City
Link on
Employment
The work of the
Immigration
Directorates
(2014 Q3)
14.30
Wednesday
11
February
14.30
Business,
Innovation and
Skills
14.45
Home Affairs
15.45
Home Affairs
The work of the
Border Force
17.15
Environmental
Audit
A 2010-15
progress report
09.30
Education
Evidence check:
National College
of Teaching and
Leadership
09.30
Work and
Pensions
Pre-appointment
hearing for the
post of Pensions
Ombudsman
Oral Evidence Session
John Griffith-Jones,
Chairman, Financial
Conduct Authority and
Martin Wheatley, Chief
Executive, Financial
Conduct Authority
Oral Evidence Session
Michael Hart, Former
Director for Children,
Ofsted and John Goldup,
Former Deputy Chief
Inspector and National
Director of Social Care,
Ofsted
Oral Evidence Session
Members of Parliament
Oral Evidence Session
As for morning session,
unless already heard.
Oral Evidence Session
David Smith, former Chief
Executive, City Link
Oral Evidence Session
David Smith, former Chief
Executive, City Link
Oral Evidence Session
James Brokenshire MP,
Minister for Security and
Immigration, Mandie
Campbell, Director
General, Immigration
Enforcement Directorate
and Sarah Rapson, Director
General, UK Visas &
Immigration Directorate
Oral Evidence Session
Sir Charles Montgomery,
Director General, Border
Force
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon Matthew Hancock
MP, Minister of State for
Business and Enterprise,
Minister for Portsmouth
and Minister of State for
Energy
Oral Evidence Session
Peter Kent, President,
Association of School and
College Leaders, James
Noble-Rogers, Executive
Director, Universities
Council for the Education
of Teachers, Ben Thomas,
National Officer, UNISON
Education and Children’s
Services and Amanda
Timberg, Executive
Director, Programme,
TeachFirst; Charlie Taylor,
Chief Executive, National
College of Teaching and
Leadership
Oral Evidence Session
Anthony Arter, Department
for Work and Pensions’
preferred candidate for the
post of Pensions
Ombudsman
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
The Wilson
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 16,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
The Boothroyd
Room,
Portcullis
House
The Boothroyd
Room,
Portcullis
House
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 16,
Palace of
Westminster
The Wilson
Room,
Portcullis
House
The Grimond
Room,
Portcullis
House
09.45
Human Rights
The UK’s
compliance with
the UN
Convention on the
Rights of the
Child
14.00
Home Affairs
Statutory Inquiry
into Child Sexual
Abuse
14.00
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
High Speed Rail
(London-West
Midlands) Bill
14.15
Environmental
Audit
14.15
Public Accounts
The Transatlantic
Trade and
Investment
Partnership
Wrap-up report
on tax
14.30
European
Scrutiny
Scrutiny inquiry
follow up:
scheduling of EU
business
15.00
Environment,
Food and Rural
Affairs
Work of the
Committee 201015
Oral Evidence Session
Paola Uccellari, Director,
Children's Rights Alliance
for England, Natalie
Williams, Policy Adviser,
The Children's Society,
Piya Muqit, Head of Policy
and Advocacy, Unicef UK
and Kate Aubrey-Johnson,
Youth Justice and Strategic
Litigation Fellow, Just for
Kids Law
Oral Evidence Session
The Honourable Justice
Lowell Goddard, Chair designate of the Statutory
Inquiry into Child Sexual
Abuse
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon Jeremy Wright QC
MP and Department for
Transport
Oral Evidence Session
Room 3A,
Palace of
Westminster
Oral Evidence Session
Lin Homer, Permanent
Secretary, HMRC and HM
Treasury
Oral Evidence Session
Rt Hon William Hague MP,
First Secretary of State
and Leader of the House of
Commons
Oral Evidence Session
Richard Macdonald, Chair
of the Independent
Farming Regulation Task
Force and Chair of the
Implementation Group and
George Eustice MP, Under Secretary of State,
Department for
Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs
Room 15,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 8, Palace
of Westminster
Room 5, Palace
of Westminster
Room 6, Palace
of Westminster
Room 18,
Palace of
Westminster
Room 16,
Palace of
Westminster