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House of Commons Select Committees

Select Committees are established by Parliament after each General Election to shadow the work of each Government department. The Committees are free to decide which areas of policy they investigate and produce about five reports each year. Following the changes to the Machinery of Government in June 2007 new Committees were established to monitor the work of the two new Government departments.

You can read AoC submissions to Select Committee inquiries here.

The following MPs are members of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee:

Barry Sheerman MP (Lab, Huddersfield) (Chair)
Douglas Carswell MP (Con, Harwich)
David Chaytor MP (Lab, Bury North)
Fiona Mactaggart MP (Lab, Slough)
Andrew Pelling MP (Con, Croydon Central)
Graham Stuart MP (Con, Beverley and Holderness)
Dawn Butler MP (Lab, Brent South)
Annette Brooke MP (Lib Dem, Mid Dorset and Poole North)
John Heppell MP (Lab, Nottingham East)
Adam Afriyie MP (Con, Windsor)
Sharon Hodgson MP (Lab, Gateshead East & Washington West) 
Andy Slaughter MP (Lab, Ealing, Acton & Shepherd’s Bush)
Lynda Waltho MP (Lab, Stourbridge)
Paul Holmes MP (Lib Dem, Chesterfield)

You can find out more about the Committee's work here

 

Innovation, Universities and Skills Select Committee

The following MPs are members of the Innovation, Universities and Skills Select Committee:

Phil Willis MP (Lib Dem, Harrogate and Knaresborough) (Chair)
Tim Boswell MP (Con, Daventry)
Nadine Dorries MP (Con, Mid Bedfordshire)
Dr Ian Gibson (Lab, Norwich North)
Dr Evan Harris (Lib Dem, Oxford West & Abingdon)
Dr Brian Iddon MP (Lab, Bolton SE)
Graham Stringer MP (Lab, Manchester Blackley)
Dr Desmond Turner MP (Lab, Brighton Kemptown)
Gordon Marsden MP (Lab, Blackpool South)
Bob Spink MP (Con, Castle Point)
Ian Stewart MP (Lab, Eccles)
Ian Cawsey MP (Lab, Brigg and Goole)
Rob Wilson MP (Con, Reading East)
Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP (Lab, City of Durham)

You can find out more about this Committee's work here

As part of their inquiries Select Committees can call on anybody to give oral evidence and any organisation or individual is free to submit written evidence. The last witness is usually the responsible Minister. Once the report is published Government is obliged to respond within two months however they are under no obligation to do what the Committee recommends.