The Transport Committee is charged by the House of Commons with scrutiny of the Department for Transport. Its formal remit is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Transport and its associated public bodies.
The Committee is made up of eleven Members of Parliament, appointed by the House of Commons and drawn from the three largest political parties.
The Committee chooses its own subjects of inquiry. Depending on the subject, external deadlines, and the amount of oral evidence the Committee decides to take, an inquiry may last for several months and give rise to a report to the House; other inquiries may simply consist of a single day’s oral evidence which the Committee may publish without making a report.
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http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/transport-committee/role/