STANDING COMMITTEES

Standing Committees in the House of Commons have a number of different functions.

1.	Standing Committees lettered A, B, C, etc, are constituted as often as necessary to consider Public Bills in detail. Their membership is announced after a Bill has been allocated to them, and the Committees are constituted afresh for each new Bill. The 1st and 2nd Scottish Standing Committees act similarly for Bills relating solely to Scotland. Special Standing Committees (SSC) or Special Scottish Standing Committees (SSSC) may be established to consider, and take evidence upon, Bills. For further details, see Factsheet 43 available from the Public Information Office.
2.	Reports of debates in Standing Committees are printed in the Official Report of Standing Committee A (B, C etc) for each sitting. These are published by, and available from, HMSO and, unless the Committee sits late, are generally available the day after the sitting.
3.	The Scottish Grand, Welsh Grand and Northern Ireland Committees exist largely to debate matters remitted to them by the House. They are constituted afresh for each topic. The Scottish and Welsh Grand Committees also debate the principle of Bills relating to Scotland and Wales if the Bills are referred to them under a motion by a Minister. Except for formal purposes this constitutes the Second Reading stage of such a Bill. The Scottish Grand Committee also (at designated sittings) has a question time, debates on the motion for the adjournment and adjournment debates. For further information see Factsheet 65 available from the Public Information Office.
4.	Delegated Legislation Standing Committees (formerly known as SI Committees) are constituted to deal with particular items of secondary legislation referred to them by the House. Their composition is not noted in this Bulletin. Any Member may attend and speak.
5.	The European Standing Committees (ESC) lettered A and B are constituted for the duration of a Session and consider matters referred to them by the House. Their composition appears in No 2 (p12), Amendments (A), 7 (p14),15 (p 20), 27 (p 21): (B), 9 (p16), 15 (p 20) this issue, 21 (p21). Chairmen are appointed for consideration of individual documents. Any Member may attend and speak. For further details see Factsheet 56 available from the Public Information Office. Committees A and B deal with matters within the responsibilities of different Departments. The list is as follows: ESC A: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Transport; Environment; Forestry Commission (and analogous responsibilities of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Offices): ESC B: Other Departments

Current Standing Committees, Details of Membership

Bill		Committee	Bulletin issue and page
			(amendments/additions)

None

*	Membership, dates of sitting not yet announced;
**	Chairmen, dates of sitting not yet announced;
***	Chairmen, membership, dates of sitting not yet announced;
****	dates of sitting not yet announced

COMMITTEES APPOINTED

Northern Ireland Grand Committee (Additional Members)

Mr Harry Barnes		Mr Peter Bottomley		Mr James Cran
Mr Stephen Day		Mr Harold Elletson		Dr Norman A Godman
Mr Charles Hendry		Mr Norman Hogg		Mr Andrew Hunter
Mr Eric Illsley		Mr Bernard Jenkin		Mr Alan Keen
Mr Thomas McAvoy		Lady Olga Maitland		Mr Malcolm Moss
Mr William O'Brien		Mr Andrew Robathan		Mr Clive Soley
Mr Richard Spring		Mr Roger Stott		Sir John Wheeler
Mr John Whittingdale		Mr Timothy Wood		Mr Tony Worthington

Welsh Grand Committee (Additional Members)

Mr Nigel Evans

Mr William Hague

Mrs Jacqui Lait

European Standing Committee A

Mr Matthew Banks		Mr Harry Barnes		Mr Peter Butler
Mr Michael Connarty		Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody		Mr Nigel Evans
Mr David Harris		Mr Robert G Hughes		Ms Helen Jackson
Mr David Lidington		Mr William Ross		Mr John Sykes

Mr Jon Trickett

European Standing Committee B

Mr Hartley Booth		Mr Peter Bottomley		Mr Richard Burden
Ms Roseanna Cunningham		Mr Quentin Davies		Mr Nirj Deva
Mr Michael Fabricant		Mr Paul Flynn		Mr Bernard Jenkin
Mr Alan Simpson		Mr George Stevenson		Mr Gerry Sutcliffe

Mr John Whittingdale

First Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation

Mr Joe Ashton		Mr Matthew Banks		Mr Michael Bates
Mr Gerald Bermingham		Mr Malcolm Bruce		Mr Ronnie Campbell
Ms Judith Church		Mr Michael Clapham		Mr Michael Connarty
Mr James Couchman		Mr Quentin Davies		Mr Michael Fabricant
Mr David Harris		Mr Adam Ingram		Mrs Angela Knight
Mr David Nicholson		Mr Mike O'Brien		Sir Cranley Onslow

Mr David Shaw

Second Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation

Mr Hartley Booth		Mr Peter Bottomley		Mr Gyles Brandreth
Mr Simon Burns		Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown		Ann Coffey
Mr Mike Gapes		Mr Neil Gerrard		Mr John Heppell
Mr Piara S Khabra		Mr Peter Luff		Mrs Alice Mahon
Mr Bill Michie		Sir James Spicer		Mr Walter Sweeney
Mr Peter Thurnham		Mr Stephen Timms		Mr Nigel Waterson

Mr John Whittingdale

Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation

Mr Julian Brazier		Mr Peter Butler		Mr Michael Clapham
Mr Sebastian Coe		Mr Harry Cohen		Mr David Congdon
Mrs Edwina Currie		Mr Alan Duncan		Mr Dudley Fishburn
Mr John Fraser		Mr Roger Godsiff		Mrs Llin Golding
Mr Robert Jackson		Ms Liz Lynne		Mr Andrew Mitchell
Mr Nigel Spearing		Mr Gerry Sutcliffe		Mr George Walden

Mr Malcolm Wicks

Fourth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation

Mr Jonathan Aitken		Mr Jamie Cann		Mr Den Dover
Mr Douglas French		Mr Roger Gale		Sir Michael Grylls
Mr John Gunnell		Mr Mike Hall		Mr Nick Hawkins
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory		Mr David Jamieson		Lynne Jones
Mr Austin Mitchell		Dr Lewis Moonie		Mr Gordon Prentice
Mr Iain Sproat		Mr Michael Stephen		Mr Don Touhig

Mr Timothy Wood

Fifth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation

Mr Michael Alison		Sir Anthony Durant		Mr Mark Fisher
Mr Harry Greenway		Mr Nick Hawkins		Margaret Hodge
Mr Simon Hughes		Mr Brian Jenkins		Mr Steve Norris
Mr Bill Olner		Sir Geoffrey Pattie		Mr Peter L Pike
Sir Dudley Smith		Mr Iain Sproat		Rachel Squire
Mr John Sykes		Mr Jon Trickett		Audrey Wise

Mr Timothy Wood

Sixth Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation

Mr Robert Atkins		Mr David Atkinson		Mr Vivian Bendall
Mr Michael Carttiss		Mr Sebastian Coe		Mr Harry Cohen
Mr Hugh Dykes		Mr Bill Etherington		Mr Roger Evans
Sir Norman Fowler		Maria Fyfe		Mrs Llin Golding
Mr Alan Howarth		Joan Lestor		Ms Liz Lynne
Mr Henry McLeish		Mr Piers Merchant		Mr Terry Rooney

Mr Neville Trotter

STANDING COMMITTEES:
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS 4 - 7 NOVEMBER 1996

Standing Committees on BILLS and DELEGATED LEGISLATION

TUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER

2nd DLSC: Special Grant Report (No. 22) (House of Commons Paper No. 16), 4.30pm, Room 11

WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER

3rd DLSC: Draft Child Support Departure Direction and Consequential Amendments Regulations, 4,30pm, Room 12

4th DLSC: Draft Channel 4 (Application of Excess Revenues) Order 1996, 4.30pm, Room 11

THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER

5th DLSC: Draft Grants to the Churches Conservation Trust Order 1996, 10.30am, Room 11

6th DLSC: Social Security (Adjudication) and Child Support Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1996, 10.30am, Room 9