Head to Parliament Live to view the Committee’s session on 22 March 2023 with Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP in full.

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In Red Box this morning 📩👇

Bernard Jenkin and Harriet Harman defend the privileges committee investigation into Boris Johnson – hitting back against accusations that the goalposts have moved.

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Following some misleading news reports, a spokesperson for the Committee has issued the following statement regarding the Committee’s report on procedures for its current inquiry

Our evidence session has just begun. Watch live below👇

📢Tomorrow we will be taking further evidence as part of our ongoing inquiry into select committee powers and contempts.

🔍We will be asking peers, current and former select committee chairs, and the Leader of the House.

👇Details: committees.parliament.uk/event/6342/for…

📢Tomorrow we will be questioning legal and constitutional experts on our proposals to clarify and strenghten select committee powers.

📖We published preliminary proposals in a report earlier this year.

📺Watch the session live from 9:15am.

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📖Earlier this year we published preliminary proposals to clarify and strengthen the powers of select committees.

🗓️As part of our consultation next Tuesday we are taking evidence from legal and constitutional experts.

👇Details and witness below.

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If you missed last night's fascinating debate on select committee powers with Chris Bryant,
Alexander Horne, Élise Hurtubise-Loranger &
Ben Yong - the recording of the event is now available on our YouTube Channel youtu.be/T4pe-vZ0eFE

Earlier this year we published preliminary proposals to strengthen select committee powers and to ensure fair treatment of witnesses before committees.

Our Chair Chris Bryant will be speaking to our report as part of a panel on Thursday.

For more details see thread below 👇

📢Online seminar: Select Committee Powers – a debate

⏰16th September, 7.30-8.30pm

Privileges Committee recently published a report recommending the strengthening of select cttee powers - in this seminar our panel will discuss the report and the cttee's recommendations.

We recently published the initial responses to our consultation on select committee powers and contempts.

You can read them here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/289/…

We are still accepting responses. To submit please email [email protected]

We have extended the deadline for our consultation on select committee powers and contempts.

The new deadline for submission is 5 July. Thank you to those that have already submitted evidence.

Read our report and submit evidence here: bit.ly/2SpDDcs

NEW: Should it be a criminal offence to fail to comply with a select committee order to provide evidence? Paul Evans, former Clerk of Committees in the House of Commons, assesses the Commons' Privileges Committee's recent proposal Privileges Committee
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We recently set out proposals to strengthen the powers of select committees to call for persons, papers and records as part of our ongoing inquiry into select committees and contempts.

You can read our proposals and respond to our consultation questions👉bit.ly/3vqDe7R

📢We're currently consulting on the exercise and enforcement of select committee powers and fair treatment of witnesses before committees.

📖Read our recent report: bit.ly/340m4SJ

✍️Submit evidence to our inquiry: bit.ly/3wn99WT

📢We're currently consulting on the exercise and enforcement of select committee powers and fair treatment of witnesses before committees.

📖Read our recent report: bit.ly/340m4SJ

✍️Submit evidence to our inquiry: bit.ly/3wn99WT

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🔔 We’ve published our report into Select committees and contempts.

📄 We've set out new proposals to strengthen select committee scrutiny and ensure fair treatment of witnesses.

⤵️ See our key recommendations here: bit.ly/2RkqS1U