Rishi Sunak quizzed by senior MPs on Liaison Committee

Well, for each government department there’s a select committee of MPs tasked with scrutinising the work of that individual department.

The cross-party Liaison Committee is a kind of super-committee made up of all the MPs who chair those individual select committees. Currently it has 35 members.

The committee looks at the government’s record in office – covering broad areas such as home affairs, foreign affairs and the Treasury. It also meets three times a year specifically to probe the work of the prime minister.

Sir Bernard Jenkin, who presides over the committee, is chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

In common with the Houses of Parliament, the majority of members of the Liaison Committee are currently Conservative MPs – though this has not saved previous Tory prime ministers from receiving tricky questions in the past.