The Foreign Affairs Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and associated public bodies.
The Committee consists of 12
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 (or to
the Committee of Public Accounts, the Deregulation Committee or
to 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, or the Environmental Audit Committee,
for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering
draft reports.
The membership of the Committee
since its nomination on 17 July 1997 has been as follows:
Mr Donald Anderson, Swansea
East (Chairman)
Ms Diane Abbott, Hackney
North and Stoke Newington
Rt Hon Mrs Viginia Bottomley,
South West Surrey
Rt Hon Sir Peter Emery, East Devon
Mr Norman A Godman, Greenock
and Inverclyde
Mr David Heath, Somerton and
Frome
| Mr Eric Illsley, Barnsley Central
Mr Andrew Mackinlay, Thurrock
Mr Ernie Ross, Dundee West
Mr Ted Rowlands, Merthyr Tydfil and
Rhymney
Rt Hon Sir John Stanley, Tonbridge
and Malling
Mr David Wilshire, Spelthorne
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