By giving the prize to the EU, the Nobel committee has undermined the excellent work of the other deserving winners of this prize.
Margaret Hodge, a former Labour minister and chair of the Commons public accounts committee, also defended the policy, arguing consumers are suffering too much from high prices.
The marriage (same-sex couples) bill will now go to the committee stage in the House of Commons.
The extended scope of the bill may follow some of the recommendations of the intelligence and security committee (ISC), which suggested in March that the entire existing surveillance legal framework should be replaced by a single new act of parliament.
Speaking to the committee, Mitchell said he was looking at how other European development finance institutions operated and was seeking to make CDC "the best DFI in the world".
Giving evidence to the House of Commons' international development committee, which is looking into the future of the CDC – Britain's investment fund for developing countries – Andrew Mitchell said the corporation's fund of funds model was too narrow and needed to be expanded.
Meredydd Hughes, who was chief constable from 2004-11, had told MPs on the home affairs select committee in September that he had "no understanding of the scale and scope of what was going on in Rotherham".
She won for what the Nobel committee called her "heroic struggle" for girls' right to an education.
The two were named winner of the £690,000 (8m kronor or $1.11m) prize by the chairman of the Nobel committee - Norway's former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland - on Friday morning.
Protests, petitions, two call-ins of the plans by supportive councillors to the Overview and Scrutiny committee, a new (yet still flawed) consultation process in recognition of the initial inadequate attempt, and much publicity.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has become the surprise choice for this year's Nobel peace prize, a decision the Oslo committee said recognised both its current, hazardous mission to destroy Syria's chemical weapons stocks and 16 years of wider global efforts.
