House of Commons Work and Pensions and Business, Innovation and Skills Committees

BHS First Report of the Work and Pensions Committee and Fourth Report of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee of Session 2016–17

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House of Commons Work and Pensions and Business, Innovation and Skills Committees

BHS First Report of the Work and Pensions Committee and Fourth Report of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee of Session 2016–17 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 20 July 2016

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Published on 25 July 2016 by authority of the House of Commons

Work and Pensions Committee The Work and Pensions Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Office of the Department for Work and Pensions and its associated public bodies. Current membership

Frank Field MP (Labour, Birkenhead) (Chair) Heidi Allen MP (Conservative, South Cambridgeshire) Mhairi Black MP (Scottish National Party, Paisley and Renfrewshire South) Ms Karen Buck MP (Labour, Westminster North) Neil Coyle MP (Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark) John Glen MP (Conservative, Salisbury) Richard Graham MP (Conservative, Gloucester) Steve McCabe MP (Labour, Birmingham, Selly Oak) Craig Mackinlay MP (Conservative, South Thanet) Jeremy Quin MP (Conservative, Horsham) Craig Williams MP (Conservative, Cardiff North)

Business, Innovation and Skills Committee The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Current membership

Mr Iain Wright MP (Labour, Hartlepool) (Chair) Paul Blomfield MP (Labour, Sheffield Central) Richard Fuller MP (Conservative, Bedford) Peter Kyle MP (Labour, Hove) Amanda Milling MP (Conservative, Cannock Chase) Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour (Co-op), Stalybridge and Hyde) Amanda Solloway MP (Conservative, Derby North) Michelle Thomson MP (Independent, Edinburgh West) Kelly Tolhurst MP (Conservative, Rochester and Strood) Craig Tracey MP (Conservative, North Warwickshire) Chris White MP (Conservative, Warwick and Leamington) Powers

The Committees are departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the internet via www.parliament.uk.

Publication

Committee reports are published on the Committees’ websites at www.parliament.uk/workpencom and www.parliament.uk/bis and in print by Order of the House. Evidence relating to this report is published on the inquiry publications page of the Committees’ websites. Work and Pensions Committee staff

The current staff of the Committee are Adam Mellows-Facer (Clerk), Margaret McKinnon (Second Clerk), Rod McInnes (Committee Specialist), Rachael Savage (Committee Specialist), Libby McEnhill (Committee Specialist), Simon Banner (Secondee), Sian Cooke (Secondee), David Everett (Secondee), Andrew Wallace (Senior Committee Assistant), Alison Pickard (Committee Assistant), Jessica Bridges-Palmer (Media Officer), and Kostas Koutoupis (Web and Publications Assistant). Business, Innovation and Skills Committee staff

The current staff of the Committee are Chris Shaw (Clerk), Martin Adams (Second Clerk), Josephine Willows (Senior Committee Specialist), Duma Langton (Committee Specialist), James McQuade (Senior Committee Assistant), Jonathan Olivier Wright, (Committee Assistant) Gary Calder (Media Officer), and Deborah Courtney (Web and Publications Assistant). Contacts

All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Work and Pensions Committee / Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 8976/5777; the Committees’ email addresses are [email protected]