Public life is littered with abuses of the English language. Not swearing, which enriches rather than limits your vocabulary, but jargon. From "stakeholder" to "social justice", from "blue skys thinking" to "criminogenic needs", management consultants, ministers and civil servants can't wait to shoehorn another neologism into public discourse.

The issue formed the basis of a Centre for Policy Studies report, The 2008 Lexicon: A guide to contemporary Newspeak, and Tessa Jowell once confessed to keeping a "little book of bollocks" of civil servant gibberish. Now it seems the Public Administration Select Committee might take a look.

At their meeting yesterday, the committee members discussed whether to look into the matter during the 2008 - 09 session and Paul Flynn seems especially keen to take the subject on. If they do, they'll be asking the public to send in their most-hated examples of management nonsense. I've got my list handy.