Working with select committees

Select Committee’s influential position means that their members can be some of our most important Parliamentary targets. Select Committee hearings can either be a welcome opportunity to explain ideas or a potential threat to a business’s reputation and its operating environment.

This session will look at select committees’ role, how teams can build relationships with them and influence them, and how to prepare for select committee hearings.

KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Learn more about the role of select committees and how they work
• Consider how to influence select committee’s programmes, reports and hearings
• Understand how best to prepare for select committee appearances

• Government Affairs teams, including those new to the function
• Wider teams (including communications, regulatory and legal) who would like to expand their government affairs knowledge
• Business advocates and policy experts who are deployed in Parliament and Whitehall to explain companies’ positions.

Emily Walch is the Investment Association’s Corporate Affairs Director. In this role she oversees the IA’s UK and EU government relations, internal and external communications. She has previously been a Special Adviser to the Business Secretary for just under four years during the Coalition government.

Hannah Marwood is the IA’s Head of Government Affairs. She has over a decade’s experience helping companies from across the UK to build effective relationships with politicians and policy makers.

Paul Scaping is the IA’s Senior Government Affairs manager. Before moving into government affairs he worked in Westminster for a senior frontbench MP.

IA Member £375.00 +VAT
Non-Member £450.00 +VAT

Pay using a credit card online, or if you wish to be invoiced please email your full details to: Training@theia.org

PLEASE NOTE: Full payment for the course must be made prior to the course commencement date.

Any cancellation must be made in writing. For all cancellation received 15-30 days prior to the course start date, 50% of the course fee is still payable. No refund is given for a cancellation made 14 days or less prior to the commencement of a course. Transferring from one course to another is treated as a cancellation. You can substitute one delegate for another at no additional cost. In this instance, please give two business days’ notice.