The ODPM Committee was appointed by the House of Commons on July 13th 2005. Its purpose is to scrutinise the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions. Following the constitutional changes announced on 5 May 2006, the Department for Communities and Local Government succeeded the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. A motion to amend Standing Order No 152 in order to rename the Committee was put before the House and agreed on 27 June 2006. Our new name is the Communities and Local Government Committee.
The role of the Committee is to examine the work, the expenditure, administration and policies of the Department for Communities and Local Government and its associated public bodies.
Among the issues the Committee examines are housing, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal, social exclusion, planning, parks and public spaces, and local government and the regions.
The Committee on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and its Urban Affairs Sub-committee were originally set up in July 2002 to reflect the reorganisation which occurred at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Further information about the work of the Committee and its predecessors can be found in our Annual Reports:
2004 |
2003 |
2002
For more information on the work of the Department for Communities and Local Government you may wish to browse their website:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/
Prior to the creation of the Select Committee on the ODPM, much of the scrutiny of the Government's policies in this area was carried out by the Transport, Local Government and Regions Select Committee and in particular that Committee's Urban Affairs Sub-Committee. Further details of its work can be located at:
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/tlrhome.htm