A new joint committee on national security strategy will meet for the first time tomorrow.
It consist of 22 members, 12 from the Commons and ten from the Lords.
The terms of reference of the committee are "to consider the national security strategy (NSS)".
The Commons members include the chairs of the select committees on foreign affairs, defence, home affairs, international development, business and enterprise, energy and climate change, and justice, as well as the chairman of the intelligence and security committee.
The chairman will be an MP and will be elected tomorrow.
The NSS was first published in March 2008 and is updated annually.
It sets out the government's strategy to address and manage "this diverse though interconnected set of security challenges and underlying drivers, both immediately and in the longer term, to safeguard the nation, its citizens, our prosperity and our way of life".
The NSS aims to broaden the traditional focus of national security - foreign, defence and security policies – to include transnational crime, pandemics and flooding.
The MPs on the committee are: James Arbuthnot (Con, North East Hampshire), Margaret Beckett (Lab, Derby South), Sir Alan Beith (Lib Dem, Berwick-upon-Tweed), Des Browne (Lab, Kilmarnock and Loudoun), Malcolm Bruce (Lib Dem, Gordon). Mike Gapes (Lab, Ilford South), Kim Howells (Lab, Pontypridd), Peter Luff (Con, Mid Worcestershire), Paul Murphy (Lab, Torfaen), Sir Malcolm Rifkind (Con, Kensington and Chelsea), Paddy Tipping (Lab, Sherwood) and Keith Vaz (Lab, Leicester East).
The peers on the committee are: Lord Cope of Berkeley (Con), Lord Fellowes (CB), Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab), Lord Harris of Haringey (Lab), Lord Lee of Trafford (Lib Dem), Baroness Manningham-Buller (CB), Baroness Ramsay of Cartvale (Lab), Lord Sterling of Plaistow (Con), Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Lab) and Lord Waldegrave of North Hill (Con).
