• Prime Minister's Questions: how are the new MPs performing?

• Winter Fuel Allowance vote: did we learn anything from the debates in the House of Commons and Lords?

• Impact Assessments for legislation: why do they matter?

• Select Committee chair elections: how do the results compare with previous years?

• Select Committee scrutiny: will it be siloed or more strategic?

• Select Committee candidate nominations: who promised what?

• How much influence do party leaders wield in Select Committee elections?

• Are Select Committee chairs likely to make it to the government frontbench before the next election?

• How do Select Committees decide which inquiries to prioritise?

• What role does public engagement play in their inquiries?

• The Liaison Committee: how will its chair be chosen?

• The Modernisation Committee: how much institutional knowledge do its members have?

Hansard Society

• Back to Business: Setting up Select Committees

• How are Select Committees created in the House of Commons?

• How are Select Committee chairs elected?

• Is chairing Select Committees in the House of Commons really an 'alternative career'?, Stephen Holden Bates, 5 January 2023

• Living on a prayer (motion): How do parliamentarians debate 'made negative' Statutory Instruments?

Marc Geddes

• Dramas at Westminster: Select Committees and the quest for accountability (Manchester University Press, 2020)

House of Commons

• Election for Chairs of Select Committees: candidates (nominations, statements and declaration of interests)

• Select Committee: results of the contested elections

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Intro: [00:00:00] You are listening to Parliament Matters, a Hansard Society production, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Learn more at hansardsociety.org.uk/PM.

Ruth Fox: Welcome to Parliament Matters, the podcast about the institution at the heart of our democracy, Parliament itself. I'm Ruth Fox. And

Mark D'Arcy: I'm Mark D'Arcy.

Ruth Fox: Coming up. Meet the new kids on the committee corridor. What are the challenges facing the newly elected chairs of the Commons Select Committees? We'll be talking to parliamentary expert Mark Geddes, who's been crawling through the detail of the elections.

Mark D'Arcy: No change for the better at PMQs. The Commons Weekly Highlight is still as trivial and shouty as ever.

Ruth Fox: And the gathering financial storm. We're a month away from the budget, and everything in politics is now about the money.[00:01:00]

Mark D'Arcy: But let's start, shall we Ruth, with Prime Minister's Question Time....