What does the Public Admin Select Committee do?
Grant sits on the Public Administration Select Committee which is essentially charged with the responsibility of holding the Civil Service to account.

In the past the Committee has produced reports on subjects as diverse as the Honours System, Ministerial Accountability and The Work of the Ombudsman.

Select committee 17th Ocober 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions founder of the Green Party, Jonathan Porritt, about why he thinks it has taken 20 years for government to wake up to the threat of global warming when he was warning about it as chairman of the Green party in 1980. Click for more details.

Select committee 28th June 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions Pensions Minister, John Hutton MP over the Ombudsman's recent report which claimed pensions maladministration by the government. Click for more details.
 

Select committee 16th May 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions the Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell and the Lords Appointments Commission in relation to the Loans for Peerages investigation. Click for more details.

Select committee 2nd May 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions the Parliamentary & Healthservice Ombudsman, Ms Ann Abraham over whether progress has really been made in her department. Click for more details.
 

Select committee 29th March 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions the Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, about Sir Christopher Meyer's memoirs. Click for more details
 

Select committee 16th March 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP talks to Rt Hon Lord Smith (formally Chris Smith MP) and Rt Hon Lord King (formally Tom King MP) about the publication of Political Memoirs. Click for more details
 

Select committee 19th January 2006 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions Sir Jeremy Greenstock (former UK ambassador to UN) about why he decided NOT TO publish his already completed memoirs. Click for more details
 

Select committee 15th December 2005 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions Sir Christopher Meyer about the controversy that surrounded the publication of his own DC Confidential memoirs. Click for more details

Select committee 18th November 2005 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions Lord Wilson and Peter Hennessy about the rules regarding the publication of memoirs. Click for more details
 

Select committee 10th November 2005 - audio only
Grant Shapps MP questions Baroness Fritchie, DBE, a Member of the House of Lords, Commissioner for Public Appointments and Mr Ed Straw from PriceWaterHouse Coopers about the workings of the Civil Service. Click for more details.
 

Select committee 20th October 2005 - audio only
Grant Shapps MP questions the Parliamentary & Healthservice Ombudsman, Ms Ann Abraham and Executive Chairman of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Mr David Varney. Click for more details.
 

Select committee 11th October 2005 - video and audio
Grant Shapps MP questions Sir Gus O'Donnell about failings in the Child Support Agency (CSA) and Immigration Nationality Directorate (IND). Click for more details