Liaison Committee sets out themes for Prime Minister session on April 8

Friday, 28 March 2025 12:05

Growth, welfare reforms and health plus international affairs and defence will feature in the Liaison Committee session with Sir Keir Starmer MP ahead of the Easter recess. Starting at 14.30, the session will run for 90 minutes, ending at 16.00. Chaired by Dame Meg Hillier MP, the Liaison Committee includes all the chairs of select committees in the House of Commons. The running order of themes and questioning will be determined by the chairs in a...Request free trial

Growth, welfare reforms and health plus international affairs and defence will feature in the Liaison Committee session with Sir Keir Starmer MP ahead of the Easter recess.

Starting at 14.30, the session will run for 90 minutes, ending at 16.00.

Chaired by Dame Meg Hillier MP, the Liaison Committee includes all the chairs of select committees in the House of Commons. The running order of themes and questioning will be determined by the chairs in a private meeting before the session begins.

Growth

Ruth Cadbury MP - Transport

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – Public Accounts

Bill Esterson MP - Energy Security and Net Zero

Patricia Ferguson MP - Scottish Affairs

Chi Onwurah MP - Science, Innovation and Technology

International Affairs and Defence

Tonia Antoniazzi MP - Northern Ireland Affairs

Sarah Champion MP – International Development

Tan Dhesi MP – Defence

Chi Onwurah MP - Science, Innovation and Technology

Welfare Reforms and Health

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – Public Accounts Committee

Layla Moran MP – Health and Social Care

Sarah Owen MP – Women and Equalities

Jamie Stone MP - Petitions

In addition to the committee line-up, the Chair of the Liaison Committee, Dame Meg Hillier MP, will put a question to the Prime Minister from members of the UK Youth Parliament. More than 300 young people took their seats on the green benches recently. Ahead of this session, the select committee podcast, Committee Corridor, caught up with them to hear what question they would ask the PM. The podcast will be available on April 3.

Committee Corridor was launched in the last Parliament to engage new audiences with the work of select committees through the lens of current, topical issues. Hosted by select committee chairs, each episode features insight interviews with leading figures combined with updates from MPs on the work of their different select committees across Parliament.

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Notes to editors:

The evidence session will take place in the Boothroyd Room. Members of the media will be admitted ahead of the public gallery. Please note that there is limited seating at tables (available to those who arrive first).
The session will be live on ParliamentLive.tv and YouTube – links will be circulated in advance of the session.
Here's the transcript from the last hearing in December 2024 and subsequent correspondence which followed.