the liaison committee coordinates all the work of the select committees. bit like a super committee within parliament. its best known role perhaps is being able to take evidence from the prime minister, which we do three times a year. but it also has a very important role, if you like, in giving more power to the select committees, giving them a stronger voice. from the public‘s point of view, when faith in politics seems to be at a particularly low ebb, people watch the work of select committees, and i think they see parliament at its best, with mps working across party lines to get things done in a much more constructive way than they often see in the commons chamber. so, you say you want to give the committee is a stronger voice. what kind of things do you have in mind? how would you make their voice stronger? i think coordinating so they work together more. because we know for example in the last parliament we saw the health committee and the communities and local government committee and the public accounts committee working to have on social care and

be chatting to conservative mp sarah wollaston, the new elected chair of the powerful commons liaison committeehere and frost on the way. first thing on friday morning you might even have to scrape your car windows. the good news is that the weather is looking good. lots of sunshine around. lots of clear, crisp autumn weather on the way. on thursday we saw a cold front moving across the uk and behind the cold front we have colder air and that cold air is in place right across the country right now. through the course of the night the skies have cleared the cold front out on the continent there. temperatures in towns and cities around 2—3 degrees. in rural spots it could be as low as minus four celsius just before sunrise. really chilly nights out there. the cold nights won't last for very long. we have some slightly milder weather on the way. more on that in just a second. this is what it looks like around eight o'clock in the morning on friday. a slightly different story in scotland. not quite the sunny skies. plenty of showers around in the western isles and the north of scotland. quite stron

presentation from the whistleblower program and possible action by the committee in response to such presentation. >> while we're waiting, our liaison is also our chair. sorry. she has a liaison report i'm going to read for her. probably not as well as she would herself. >> good morning i'm chief audit executive on the audit side and with me, i have civil investigator steve flaherty, responsible for the whistleblower program. today's presentation is an update on whistleblower program activities and initiatives through quarter one of fiscal year 2017/18. we last presented before you on may 2017 at which time we received fiscal year -- reviewed fiscal year 16/17 through quarter three. since our last presentation we issued quarter four annual report and two fraud bulletins on our web site and we anticipate fiscal year 17/18 in december. in advance of the presentation, staff supported quarterly meetings with our liaison, brenda kwee mcnulty, our chair who will keep aprized of the activities. for the benefit of new members, our first four slides provide an overview of the whistleblower program, authority, jurisdiction and role in ensurin

important discussion to the government audit and oversight committee and thank you for taking the lead on behalf of this board in being the legislator liaison. i think data sharing between departments has always been an ongoing conversation, not just with this particular database, but i remember from my time serving on the school board discussions about sharing data even between juvenile justice, h.s.a., and others, and the immense myriad of challenges that we went through around sharing private information and addressing privacy issues. and we still have not addressed that issue, you know, over a decade later. really, i mean, we have to figure out a way to break through some of the bureaucracy and legitimate issues around data sharing to just be able to achieve really important goals so thank you again, supervisor yee. this item will be continued to the call of the chair. mr. clerk, can we please call the next item. >> clerk: next on agenda, item number 4, file 170 -- excuse me, hearing on the budget and legislative analyst's 2017 performance audit of the department of technology and received presentations of the timeline and work plan for

liaison officer the naval legislative office. i was by far the youngest member of the senate foreign relations committee.nd i got an opportunity to travel all over the world. like john, i've met every major world leader without exception since 1976. in the beginning, one of the most consequential days of my career, and we have all looked back on our careers, and think of those things and moments that had an impact on how your career moved forward. and not only that -- i not only got to work with john mccain, i got to know him. i got to know an awful lot about him. he got to know an awful lot about me. we traveled hundreds of thousands of miles together, we got to know each other's families. sitting on my lawn in wilmington, having a picnic with his family when he was still in the navy. my son, beau biden. army, purple heart -- excuse me, a bronze star, other service medals he was awarded. he looks at john from the time he was a high school kid with nothing but absolute rock -- raw admiration. my son hunter got to know john personally. they got to talk to him, they took the measure of the man and they got