Liaison Committee question Prime Minister on climate change and radicalisation

• Parliament TV: watch the session with the Prime Minister
• Evidence sessions with the Prime Minister 2014-15
• Liaison Committee

Witness

At 4pm, Tuesday 16 December 2014, Grimond Room, Portcullis House

• Rt Hon David Cameron MP

Purpose of the session

The Liaison Committee is made up of the Chairs of other select committees, and questions the Prime Minister three times a year on matters of public policy. At this session, the Prime Minister is questioned on:

• Climate change and new energy sources including hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
• Radicalisation 

Topics of the session

Climate change and new energy sources and technologies

• National carbon budgets and pricing
• Energy subsidies
• Green investment bank powers, the Green Deal, and policy co-ordination and stability
• The International Climate Fund and the Green Climate Fund
• Communication of climate science and risk
• Exploiting shale gas and fracking
• Local employment and skills
• Exploration and assumptions
• The impact on the landscape

Radicalisation

• The Prime Minister’s Task Force on tackling radicalisation and extremism
• The Prevent Strategy and the Channel programme
• Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures
• Extremism in schools
• Foreign Fighters
• Radicalisation in Prisons
• Temporary exclusion from the United Kingdom

Members in attendance

The session is chaired by Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP (Lib Dem) and also involves the following Select Committee Chairs:

• Mr Adrian Bailey MP, Business, Innovation and Skills (Lab/Co-op)
• Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, International Development (Lib Dem)
• David T C Davies MP, Welsh Affairs (Con)
• Miss Anne McIntosh MP, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Con)
• Andrew Miller MP, Science and Technology (Lab)
• Rory Stewart MP, Defence (Con)
• Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP, Home Affairs (Lab)
• Joan Walley MP, Environmental Audit (Lab) 
• Mr Tim Yeo MP, Energy and Climate Change (Con)

Further information

• About Parliament: Select Committees
• Visit Parliament: Watch Committees