Select Committee on Health Third Report



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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