Women in the City and new motorcycle test on committee agenda

Here is the business of the House of Commons committees for the week commencing October 12.

Speaker Bercow calls on MPs to be ‘fearless champions’

The Speaker of the House of Commons set out a ten-point plan for reform in a speech to the Hansard Society last month.

Government must rethink flood strategy say MPs

A committee of MPs has said the government’s Floods and Water Management Bill should be revised.

UK’s six million unpaid carers failed by ‘complex’ benefits system

A committee of MPs has said there need to be changes to the benefits system so that carers to be referred quickly to the services they need.

Regional committee holds public meeting in Nottingham

A series of meetings by Commons regional grand committees being held around the country continued today.

Commons reform committee calls for evidence

The Select Committee on House of Commons Reform will not take oral evidence, it has been announced.

Commons committee meets in Exeter

A regional grand committee has met outside London, the first of a series of meetings away from the capital.

Met confirm that Royal mobiles were illegally intercepted

Two senior police officers have told a committee of MPs that the Royal family was probably the victim of illegal phone tapping.

MPs “concerned” by rise in unsafe foreign-registered lorries on British roads

A rise in the number of foreign-registered heavy goods vehicles on Britain’s roads has led to “unacceptable levels of non-compliance with basic road safety standards,” a committee of MPs has said.

Mortgage lenders accused of using repossession as a ‘first resort’

A committee of MPs has said that “many sub–prime, specialist and second charge lenders” are using repossession not as a tool of last resort, but instead of first resort.