Committees

Liaison Committee sets out themes for Prime Minister session on April 8

28 March 2025

Growth, welfare reforms and health plus international affairs and defence will feature in the Liaison Committee session with Sir Keir Starmer MP ahead of the Easter recess.

Starting at 2.30pm, the session will run for 90 minutes, ending at 4pm.

Who will be questioning the Prime Minister?

Chaired by Dame Meg Hillier MP, the Liaison Committee includes all the chairs of select committees in the House of Commons.  The running order of themes and questioning will be determined by the chairs in a private meeting before the session begins.

Growth

  • Ruth Cadbury MP - Transport
  • Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – Public Accounts
  • Bill Esterson MP - Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Patricia Ferguson MP - Scottish Affairs
  • Chi Onwurah MP - Science, Innovation and Technology

International Affairs and Defence

  • Tonia Antoniazzi MP - Northern Ireland Affairs
  • Sarah Champion MP – International Development
  • Tan Dhesi MP – Defence
  • Chi Onwurah MP - Science, Innovation and Technology

Welfare Reforms and Health

  • Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – Public Accounts Committee
  • Layla Moran MP – Health and Social Care
  • Sarah Owen MP – Women and Equalities
  • Jamie Stone MP - Petitions

In addition to the committee line-up, the Chair of the Liaison Committee, Dame Meg Hillier MP, will put a question to the Prime Minister from members of the UK Youth Parliament.

More than 300 young people took their seats on the green benches recently. Ahead of this session, the select committee podcast, Committee Corridor, caught up with them to hear what question they would ask the PM. The podcast will be available on April 3.

Committee Corridor was launched in the last Parliament to engage new audiences with the work of select committees through the lens of current, topical issues.

Hosted by select committee chairs, each episode features insight interviews with leading figures combined with updates from MPs on the work of their different select committees across Parliament.

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