Education & Skills Select Committee Totally Explained

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The Education & Skills Select Committee was a Committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The official name was the House of Commons, Education and Skills Committee. The committee was abolished as a result of the abolition of the Department for Education and Skills, whose responsibilities were split between the new Department for Children, Schools and Families and the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. Committees were subsequently set up in line with the new departments.

Remit

The Education and Skills Committee was one of the House of Commons Select Committees related to government departments: its terms of reference were to examine "the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Education and Skills and its associated public bodies".
The Committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry, within the overall terms of reference. It invited written evidence from interested parties and held public evidence sessions, usually in committee rooms at the House of Commons, although it did have the power to meet away from Westminster.
At the end of each inquiry, the Committee would normally agree a Report based on the evidence received. Such reports were published and made available on the internet. Reports usually contained recommendations to the Government and other bodies. The Government by convention responded to reports within about two months of publication. These responses were also published.

Inquiries

The Committee could examine any area of work related to the Department for Education and Skills and its associated public bodies, such as the Learning and Skills Council and Ofsted.
The inquiries that the committee carried out included:

Bullying
Citizenship education
Prison education
Further education
Special Educational Needs
Secondary education
Teaching children to read

Chair

Barry Sheerman MP was Chair of the Committee since 2001. He succeeded Malcolm Wicks MP who became a government minister in the Department for Education and Skills.

Members

Members were appointed by the full house on the nomination of the Committee of Selection, and were representative of the state of political parties in the House of Commons. Members received an extra allowance on top of their salaries for select committee duties.
The membership at July 2006 was as follows:

Barry Sheerman (Chair)

Rob Wilson

Trivia

During the committee's inquiry into prison education in 2005, the committee held a formal evidence session at Feltham Young Offenders Institution in West London.Further Information

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