select committee

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The launch of plans for government-issued digital ID for all British adults last year has been labelled "nothing short of a fiasco" by the home affairs select committee.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Foreign Affairs select committee chair Dame Emily Thornberry has invited Sir Olly to give evidence on Tuesday next week, the second time he will have been quizzed about his involvement in the Mandelson scandal.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Scotland's Astronomer Royal, Catherine Heymans, speaking for the UK community of astronomers, told the science select committee that the proposed cuts were "genuinely catastrophic and will be devastating for the UK."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Chi Onwurah MP, chair of the Science Innovation and Technology Select Committee, discovered this when she asked Chapman for a comparison of blue-sky spending before and after the reorganisation at a select committee hearing.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Mr. Jackson, of Massachusetts, presented a petition from sundry citizens of Massachusetts, containing the usual prayer, and moved its reference to a select committee.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William