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The Home Affairs Committee is appointed under Standing
Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy
of the Home Office and of 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 the 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 document 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 Gerald Howarth
|
| (discharged 8 June 1998)
| Ms Beverly Hughes |
| Mr Robin Corbett | Mr Martin Linton
|
| Mr Ross Cranston | Mr Humfrey Malins
|
| Mr Nick Hawkins | Mr Bob Russell
|
| (added 2 March 1998)
| (added 8 June 1998)
|
| Rt Hon Douglas Hogg |
Mr Marsha Singh |
| (discharged 2 March 1998)
| Mr David Winnick |
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