The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Department of the Environment,
Transport and the Regions and associated public bodies.
The Committee consists of 17 Members. It has
a quorum of five. 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 (or to the Committee of Public Accounts,
the Deregulation Committee or the Environmental Audit Committee)
its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common
interest;
(d) to meet concurrently with any other such
committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or
considering draft reports.
The Committee has power to appoint two sub-committees
and to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken
before them and their minutes of proceedings. The sub-committees
have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding
any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place,
and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under the
same Standing Order or any sub-committee thereof for the purposes
of deliberating or taking evidence.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 14 July 1997 has been:
| Mr Andrew F Bennett |
Mr Clifford Forsythe |
| Mr Thomas Brake | Mr James Gray
|
| Christine Butler | Mr Philip Hammond (appointed 17/11/97)
|
| Mr John Cummings | Mr Bill O'Brien
|
| Mr Stephen Day (discharged 17/11/97)
| Mr Bill Olner |
| Mr Brian Donohoe | Mr Eric Pickles
|
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody |
Mr George Stevenson |
| Mrs Louise Ellman | Mr Graham Stringer
|
| Mr Howard Flight | Mr Alan Whitehead
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