David Natzler is Director General of Chamber and Committee Services.
Chamber and Committee Services is responsible for a range of professional and administrative services related to the business and procedures of the House; the work of its committees; official report; and security.
Advice is provided confidentially and impartially to individual Members as well as to the House as a whole, to the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers, to Committees and the Chairs of those Committees, as well as to government and opposition parties.
Hansard is an edited verbatim report of proceedings in the Chamber, in Westminster Hall and in General Committees in which Members’ words are reported with repetitions and redundancies omitted and with obvious mistakes corrected. The department is also responsible for processesing and publishing written ministerial statements and written answers to questions.
The Serjeant at Arms directorate within Chamber and Committee Services is responsible for security and access, as well as the maintenance of order.