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 Virginia Bottomley,
South West Surrey
Rt Hon Sir Peter Emery, East Devon
Mr Norman A Godman, Greenock
and Inverclyde
Mr David Heath, Somerton and
Frome
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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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