Home Affairs Select Committee

The Home Affairs Select Committee is a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Remit

The Home Affairs Committee is one of the House of Commons Select Committees related to government departments: its terms of reference are to examine "the expenditure, administration and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies".

The Committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry, within the overall terms of reference. It invites written evidence from interested parties and holds public evidence sessions, usually in committee rooms at the House of Commons, although it does have the power to meet away from Westminster.

At the end of each inquiry, the Committee will normally agree a Report based on the evidence received. Such Reports are published and made available on the internet. Reports usually contain recommendations to the Government and other bodies. The Government by convention responds to reports within about two months of publication. These responses are also published.

Inquiries

The Committee can examine any area of work related to the Home Office and its associated public bodies, such as HM Prison Service and United Kingdom Passport Agency.

Recent inquiries have focused on

• Rehabilitation of prisoners
• Sexual Offences Act 2003
• Immigration Control
• Terrorism
• Sentencing for Robbery
• Corporate manslaughter
• The response of the Metropolitan Police to phone hacking by the British press

Membership

As of 2 November 2010, the members of the committee are as follows:

Member		Party	Constituency
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Keith Vaz MP (Chair)	Labour	Leicester East
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Nicola Blackwood MP	Conservative	Oxford West and Abingdon
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	James Clappison MP	Conservative	Hertsmere
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lorraine Fullbrook MP	Conservative	South Ribble
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |	Dr Julian Huppert MP	Liberal Democrat	Cambridge
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Steve McCabe MP	Labour	Birmingham Selly Oak
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Rt Hon Alun Michael MP	Labour Co-op	Cardiff South and Penarth
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Bridget Phillipson MP	Labour	Houghton and Sunderland South
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mark Reckless MP	Conservative	Rochester and Strood
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Winnick MP	Labour	Walsall North

Source: Home Affairs Committee

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection Such changes are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
2 November 2010	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mary Macleod MP (Conservative)	Brentford and Isleworth	→	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	James Clappison MP (Conservative)	Hertsmere	Hansard
14 February 2011	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Aidan Burley MP (Conservative)	Cannock Chase	→	bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Michael Ellis MP (Conservative)	Northampton North	Hansard

See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament

External links

• Home Affairs Committee