This Report welcomes and responds to the Government's proposal to involve select committees in public appointments by inviting committees to hold non-binding pr

Government response to HC 152, session 2007-08 (ISBN 9780104851791)

Select Committees have undertaken pre-appointment hearings since 2007. These have a fourfold purpose: Scrutiny of the quality of ministerial decision making; Pr

The Liaison Committee published a report on Select Committees and Public Appointments in September 2011, as its First Report of Session 2010-12 (HC 1230, ISBN 9

This report considers the experience of some three years of holding 'pre-appointment' hearings by select committees to examine the 'preferred candidate' for cer