The Trade and Industry
Committee is appointed under Standing Order No 130 to examine
the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of
Trade and Industry and associated public bodies.
The Committee consists of
11 Members. It has a quorum of three. Unless the House otherwise
orders, all members nominated to the Committee continue to be
members of it for the remainder of the Parliament.
The Committee has power:
(a) to send for persons,
papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of
the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from
time to time;
(b) to appoint specialist
advisers either to supply information which is not readily available
or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order
of reference;
(c) to communicate to
any other committee appointed under the same Standing Order (and
to the Committee of Public Accounts and to the Deregulation Committee)
its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common
interest; and
(d) to meet concurrently
with any other such committee for the purposes of deliberating,
taking evidence, or considering draft reports.
The membership of the Committee
since its nomination on 13 July 1992 has been as follows:
| Mr Robert Banks (added 31.01.94)
| Sir Anthony Grant
|
| Mr Roger Berry (added 27.11.95)
| Dr Keith Hampson
|
| Mr Malcolm Bruce (added 26.10.92)
| Mr Nick Harvey (added 28.11.94)
|
| (discharged 28.11.94)
| (discharged 27.11.95)
|
| Mr John Butterfill
| Mr Doug Hoyle (discharged 26.10.92)
|
| Mr Richard Caborn
| Mr Adam Ingram (discharged 13.12.93)
|
| (discharged 27.11.95)
| Mr Martin O'Neill(added 27.11.95)
|
| Mr Michael Clapham
| Sir Cranley Onslow
|
| (added 26.10.92)
| Mr Stanley Orme (discharged 09.02.93)
|
| Dr Michael Clark
| Mr Barry Porter (died 03.11.96)
|
| (discharged 31.01.94)
| Mr Ken Purchase (added 13.12.93)
|
| Ann Coffey (added 09.02.93)
| Mr Michael Stephen (added 02.12.96)
|
| (discharged 27.11.95)
| Joan Walley (added 27.11.95)
|
| Mr Jim Cousins (discharged 26.10.92)
| |
Mr Richard Caborn was elected
Chairman on 14 July 1992.
Mr Martin O'Neill was elected
Chairman on 29 November 1995.
