The Home Affairs Committee is appointed under Standing Order
No 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of
the Home Office and associated public bodies; the policy, administration
and expenditure of the Lord Chancellor's Department (including
the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts
and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases
and appointments); and the administration and expenditure of the
Attorney-General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department,
the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but
excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within
government by Law Officers).
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,
the Deregulation Committee and the Environmental Audit 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 Committee has the power to appoint one sub-committee
and to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken
before it. The sub-committee has power to send for persons, papers
and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House,
and to adjourn from place to place. It has a quorum of three.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination on 16
July 1997 is shown below:
Mr Chris Mullin
(elected Chairman 17 July 1997)
| Mr Richard Allan | Mr Humfrey Malins
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| Ms Beverley Hughes | Rt Hon Douglas Hogg
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| Mr Robin Corbett | Mr Marsha Singh
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| Mr Martin Linton | Mr Gerald Howarth
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| Mr Ross Cranston | Mr David Winnick
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