The Health Committee is appointed under Standing
Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy
of the Department of Health and associated public bodies.
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 (or to the Committee of Public Accounts),
the Deregulation Committee and 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 for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or
considering draft reports.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 14 July 1997 has been as follows:
Mr David Amess (added
20 July 1998)
Mr John Austin
Dr Peter Brand
Mr Peter Brooke (discharged 21 July 1997)
Julia Drown
Mr John Gunnell
Mr David Hinchliffe
Ann Keen
Mr Andrew Lansley (discharged 20 July 1998)
Dr Howard Stoate
Mr Robert Syms
Mr Robert Walter (added 21 July 1997)
Audrey Wise
Mr David Hinchliffe was elected Chairman on 17 July
1997.
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