White, drawing on more than forty interviews, as well as roundtable discussions and informal meetings, noted a number of innovations by select committees at Westminster during the 2010-15 parliament, including the Defence Select Committee’s use of members as rapporteurs to take the lead on specific inquiries and to undertake visits alone, before reporting back to the whole committee, thus expanding its capacity for work and also allowing members to focus on areas of personal interest; like some other select committees, the Defence Select Committee also used social media tools to gather evidence from witnesses that might otherwise be hard to reach, such as the online...