This course sets out to provide and insight into the workings of parliamentary select committees, their role, powers and relationship with government.
It seeks to get delegates to consider how best they should engage with the committee members and staff and at what stage of the committee’s work programme and inquiries.
Speaker: Darryl Howe - Training Consultant
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Darryl has extensive experience working in senior roles within government and Parliament, including as Principal Private Secretary and Chief of Staff, and as Deputy Head of the Government Whips Office. For over twenty years he worked at the heart of government working closely with ministers and with Parliament on a daily basis often in highly charged political environments where tensions between party political needs, political expediency and responsibilities of government are finely balanced. He has experience of managing often tense and difficult relationships between government and other agencies including during a police investigation (Cash for Peerages) and inquiries by select committees including the Quadripartite Committee on Arms Export Controls, Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Public Administration Select Committee and the Trade and Industry Select Committee. He worked on the passage of legislation in the House of Commons and House of Lords and briefed ministers in both Houses in preparation for parliamentary questions and debates. Darryl now provides consultancy and training on the processes of government and Parliament. His clients include private and public sector organisations in the UK and overseas and a number of parliamentarians.