How can it be that Select Committees are effective?

-Select Committees are taken seriously and Government will accept roughly 40% of their Recommendations. (Still quite low?) -Have the Power to get Written and Oral Evidence. Can summon Witnesses, such as Ministers, Civil Servants, Experts and more. Rishi Sunak was on the Privileges Committee -Have a degree of Freedom from Government Interference. Party Whips and Frontbenchers do not Sit on the Committees, meaning the Backbench has the influence. The chair is headed by Harriet Harman, a Backbencher Labour -Work is consensual, not Combative. This means that they not care about Political scoring for their Party, and focus on taking their Government to account. -Chairing a Select Committee is definitely an Alternative to becoming a Minister. Yvette Cooper chairs the Home Affairs Select Committee, and scarified a role on Labour's Front Bench.