Liaison Committee (House of Lords)
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The Liaison Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords
. The Committee advises the full House on financial and other resources required by the body's select committees and allocates those resources among them. It is also responsible for reviewing the work of the select committees, coordinating their work with those of the House of Commons, and considering requests to appoint ad hoc select committees.
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
. The Committee advises the full House on financial and other resources required by the body's select committees and allocates those resources among them. It is also responsible for reviewing the work of the select committees, coordinating their work with those of the House of Commons, and considering requests to appoint ad hoc select committees.
Membership
As of 5 September 2011, the members of the committee are as follows:- Lord Brabazon of TaraIvon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of TaraIvon Anthony Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, DL is a British Conservative politician.Lord Brabazon attended Harrow School and married Harriet Frances de Courcy Hamilton in 1979, with whom he had a son and a daughter...
(Chairman of Committees) - Lord Alderdice
- Lord Campbell-SavoursDale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-SavoursDale Norman Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours is a British Labour Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2001, he now sits in the House of Lords....
- Baroness CorstonJean Corston, Baroness CorstonJean Ann Corston, Baroness Corston, PC is a British Labour politician.-Early life:Jean Ann Parkin went to Yeovil Girls' High School on Stiby Road in Yeovil and the Somerset College of Arts and Technology. She worked at the Inland Revenue. At the London School of Economics, she gained an LLB in 1989...
- Lord FellowesRobert Fellowes, Baron FellowesRobert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes, GCB, GCVO, QSO, PC is a former Private Secretary to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 1990–1999, and is also known as a brother-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales.-Family background:...
- Lord LammingHerbert Laming, Baron LamingWilliam Herbert Laming, Baron Laming, CBE isa British social worker and Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords. On 29 June 2011, it was announced that he had been elected to succeed Baroness D'Souza as Convenor of the Crossbench Peers; he will take up the post in September 2011 when the House...
- Lord McNally
- Baroness Perry of SouthwarkPauline Perry, Baroness Perry of SouthwarkPauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark is an educationalist, a Conservative politician and a member of the British House of Lords. She was Chief Inspector of Schools in England....
- Baroness Royall of BlaisdonJanet Royall, Baroness Royall of BlaisdonJanet Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, PC is a British Labour politician. She is the current Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords.-Education and early political career:...
- Lord StrathclydeThomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron StrathclydeThomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, PC , is a British politician. He is currently the Leader of the House of Lords and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster as well as being the leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords...
- Viscount UllswaterNicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount UllswaterNicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater, LVO, PC , succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949...