Questioning Hancock. How far will Clark and Hunt go?

Cummings has said he will hand over material to the inquiry. Will the committee ask the Government to do likewise?

Cummings Reborn – as the champion of Parliament. He has given MPs more power, so leaving the inquiry with less.

Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.

Interview with Douglas Ross: Sturgeon is not in the clear, and is part of a “conspiracy against getting out the truth”

The Scottish Conservative leader calls for devolution from Holyrood to local councils, and says he is looking forward to campaigning with Boris Johnson.

As the SNP stonewalls Holyrood, Parliament should help hold Scottish civil servants to account

Liam Fox has confirmed this week that they are part of the Home Civil Service, and thus answerable to the House of Commons and its Ministers.

James Sunderland: The Armed Forces have risen to the challenges of Covid. Parliament must not waste this opportunity to repay them.

The delay to the review, historic increases to defence spending and rumoured cuts to troop numbers paint a picture of an organisation in flux.

Liam Fox: How MPs can better hold Ministers to account over their handling of the Coronavirus

We need more information, transparency and scrutiny. A committee on the model of the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards is required.

Tim Ambler: How to replace quangos

We estimate that streamlining the quango state could mean nearly 34,000 people off the taxpayer payroll, and a saving of £3.25 billion a year.

Meg Russell and Ruth Fox: How a virtual Parliament should work. Questions – and some answers.

It should not expect to resurrect ‘business as usual’. The key priority is scrutiny of Government action and managing the crisis.

We need the Commons back urgently – and if that means a Virtual Parliament, then so be it.

The date at which lockdown should end is debatable.  That MPs and peers should be debating it is not.

Robert Halfon: We will need a Remembrance Day to honour our Corona Heroes

Plus: And a Coronavirus Social Justice Minister. Give thanks for Starmer. And: it’s time for a Virtual Parliament.

Full membership list of select committees

The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

The shuffle doesn’t just mould the Government, it also shapes the Select Committees which scrutinise it

In a nice piece of constitutional give-and-take, a more loyal minister-class makes for a potentially more troublesome set of Tory Select Committee chairmen.

Sponsored Post: Mike Moser: The EFRA committee’s fur inquiry recommends a pragmatic way forward

Those who wish to wear fur and those who do not will both benefit from clearer labelling of fur products, backed up with stronger enforcement.

WATCH: Whittingdale’s tribute to Baroness Jowell

The former Chairman of the Culture, Media, and Sport Select Committee relates how they collaborated to win support for Britain’s Olympic bid.