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David Cameron, radicalisation, fracking

Liaison Committee question Prime Minister on climate change and radicalisation

16 December 2014

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The Prime Minister gives evidence on Tuesday 16 December.

Witness

At 4pm, Tuesday 16 December 2014, Grimond Room, Portcullis House

  • Rt Hon David Cameron MP

Purpose of the session

The Liaison Committee is made up of the Chairs of other select committees, and questions the Prime Minister three times a year on matters of public policy. At this session, the Prime Minister is questioned on:

  • Climate change and new energy sources including hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
  • Radicalisation 

Topics of the session

Climate change and new energy sources and technologies

  • National carbon budgets and pricing
  • Energy subsidies
  • Green investment bank powers, the Green Deal, and policy co-ordination and stability
  • The International Climate Fund and the Green Climate Fund
  • Communication of climate science and risk
  • Exploiting shale gas and fracking
  • Local employment and skills
  • Exploration and assumptions
  • The impact on the landscape

Radicalisation

  • The Prime Minister’s Task Force on tackling radicalisation and extremism
  • The Prevent Strategy and the Channel programme
  • Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures
  • Extremism in schools
  • Foreign Fighters
  • Radicalisation in Prisons
  • Temporary exclusion from the United Kingdom

Members in attendance

The session is chaired by Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP (Lib Dem) and also involves the following Select Committee Chairs:

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