Select Committees and Contempts

Inquiry by the Committee of Privileges, 11 May 2019 to 30 May 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• First Report - Select committees and contempts: clarifying and strengthening powers to call for persons, papers and records (2 May 2021)
• First Report - Select committees and contempts: review of consultation on Committee proposals (16 June 2022)
• Government response to the Committee of Privileges report on Select Committees and Contempts (7 October 2022)

Evidence sessions

• 22 October 2019: Sir Malcom Jack KCB, House of Commons; House of Commons; Lord Tyrie, Treasury Select Committee; Lord Tyrie, House of Commons Liaison Committee; Lord Tyrie, Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards
• 22 October 2019: House of Commons; House of Commons; Chris Bryant, House of Commons; Sir Bernard Jenkin, House of Commons
• 26 October 2021: Professor Tom Hickman QC, Blackstone Chambers; Professor Alison Young, University of Cambridge; Joshua Rozenberg QC (hon)
• 30 November 2021: Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, House of Commons
• 30 November 2021: Lord Gardiner of Kimble, House of Lords; Christopher Johnson, House of Lords; Rt Hon the Lord Judge, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• 30 December 2021: Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP, House of Commons; Sir Robert Neill MP, House of Commons; Damian Collins MP, Chair, Joint Committee on the Online Harms Bill, and former Chair, DCMS Committee