How can Lords committees increase their impact?
The House of Lords Liaison Committee will tomorrow take evidence from Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee and Professor Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for Public Understanding of Politics.
The sessions are part of the Committee's inquiry into effectiveness of Lords Committees.
The Committee will explore a number of areas with the witnesses including the overlap between Commons and Lords Committees and what gaps exist that are not effectively covered by either House, whether Committees in both Houses have sufficient powers to compel reluctant witnesses to give evidence and how Lords Committees can engage with a wider section of society in their inquiries.
The session with Professor Flinders will also cover how Lords ad hoc Committees, which sit for a single inquiry in one session of Parliament and then disband, can ensure they continue to have an impact after their report is published.
The evidence sessions will be held on Wednesday 9 May in Committee Room 3A of the House of Lords. The witnesses will give evidence at:
- 10:30 Dr Sarah Wollaston MP
- 11:15 Professor Matthew Flinders
