The Liaison Committee took evidence from the Prime Minister David Cameron at 4.00pm on Tuesday 14 January, continuing the Committee’s regular questioning of the Prime Minister.

The session focussed on the following themes:

Violence against women and girls

• International development and action to tackle violence against women and girls
• Preventing sexual violence in conflict
• Sexual harassment in the armed forces
• Female genital mutilation – nationally and internationally
• Child sexual exploitation
• Human trafficking/modern day slavery
• UK implementation of international agreements
• Domestic violence
• Sex education and the role of schools
• Housing and the benefits system

Energy policy and environmental priorities

• Energy security and blackouts
• Investor confidence
• The risks posed by electro-magnetic pulses
• Energy subsidies and fuel poverty
• Environmental priorities
• Shale gas
• Community engagement and scientific advice
  

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

• Mr Graham Allen MP, Political and Constitutional Reform (Lab)
• Rt Hon James Arbuthnot MP, Defence (Cons)
• Dame Anne Begg MP, Work and Pensions (Lab)
• Rt Hon Sir Malcolm Bruce MP, International Development (Lib Dem)
• Mr William Cash MP, European Scrutiny (Cons)
• David T C Davies MP, Welsh Affairs (Con)
• Dr Hywel Francis MP, Joint Committee on Human Rights (Lab)
• Miss Anne McIntosh MP, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Con)
• Andrew Miller MP, Science and Technology (Lab)
• Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP, Home Affairs (Lab)
• Joan Walley MP, Environmental Audit (Lab)
• Tim Yeo MP, Energy and Climate Change (Con)

Oral and written evidence for this session can be found by selecting the relevant option below.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights, chaired by Dr Hywel Francis MP, is extending its inquiry into the implications for access to justice of the Government’s proposals to reform legal aid, by examining also some of the Government’s proposals to reform judicial review, as set out in its Consultation Paper Judicial Review: Proposals for further reform.

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Found: engagement.And though we talk of civic mission, this isn't of “missionary work” as my late friend Hywel Francis

Found: Welsh Affairs Committee, Better Governance for Wales, 18 October 2005 HC 551-i Members present: Dr Hywel Francis

Found: suggestions that I am sure will be made in Committee.11 The Chair of Welsh Affairs Select Committee, Hywel Francis

<p>I thank Jayne Bryant for what she said about the palliative care quality statement, which my colleague Eluned Morgan publicised recently. It picks up many of the points that the Member has just made, Llywydd. We're not good at talking about these things in our culture. In many ways, those conversations need to start far earlier than when people are faced with those incredibly difficult end-of-life decisions.</p>
<p>I worked closely at one point with the Byw Nawr programme, led as it was by our former colleague Hywel Francis. That was all about encouraging people to have those conversations before you reach the point of needing to have them, to make advanced decisions, as you're able to make here in Wales, letting the system know how you would wish to be cared for should you find yourself in those circumstances. That sense of that being a genuine conversation between the individual, with rights, with ambitions for their own life, with decisions that they themselves can exercise, and the system that will help to care for them, was absolutely at the centre of that initiative. I'm sure that, as we move forward with that wider end-of-life development that I talked about, those qualities will be captured again in those conversations.&nbsp;</p>