Next week's committees
A few committee highlights are already visible for the next week, when MPs get back from their half-term.
On Monday , the talks to the uber-bankers of Goldman Sachs in their continuing inquiry into Financial Institutions that are Too Important To Fail. The witness is Gerald Corrigan, chairman of Goldman Sachs USA.
The hears from Barry Quirk, Census Champion for London (sic) as it continues its investigation into the 2011 Census and London's population. The headcount the census produces is used to calculate funding for local services - so any discrepancies matter a lot.
On Tuesday, the Treasury Committee's back again, with a two-part session divided between financial institutions - hearing from Santander, and the inflation report with Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, and other Threadneedle Street officials.
The will look at the work of the Independent Police Complaints Commission - and it would probably not be a wild stab in the dark to suppose that the name of Ali Dizaei, the recently jailed Met Commander might just crop up.
On Wednesday, the hears from the Science Minister Lord Drayson on the treatment of independent scientific advice to the government (ie the recent furore about Professor David Nutt and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs); and before that from the Higher Education minister David Lammy about cuts in research funding.
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband will be before the to talk about security, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the Transport Secretary Lord Adonis will make one of his regular visits to the Transport Committee - part of his efforts to be accountable to the Commons, while sitting in the Lords.
And over in the Lords, the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has his annual session with the on, you've guessed it, constitutional Issues.
This one will bear watching - the special select committee investigating the police search of Damian Green MP's office has recalled Malcolm Jack, the Clerk of the Commons for further evidence.
And the holding a special one-off session on "the constitutional implications of electoral outcomes" - which, I assume, means hung parliaments. The witnesses include a galaxy of constitutional thinkers, and Sir Gus O'Donnel, the Cabinet Secretary.
Thursday sees the examining the prospects for government in the fiscal squeeze - with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne in the hot seat.
I'm Mark D'Arcy and I'll be writing about what goes on in the chambers and committee rooms at Westminster.
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