Select Committee on International Development Seventh Special Report



  The International Development Committee is appointed under Standing Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for International Development.

  The Committee consists of a maximum of eleven Members, of whom the quorum is 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;

    (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 is as follows:

      Mr Dennis Canavan
      Ann Clwyd
      Ms Barbara Follett
      Mr Bernie Grant
      Mr Piara S Khabra
      Ms Oona King
Mrs Tess Kingham
Mr Andrew Robathan
Mr Andrew Rowe
Dr Jenny Tonge
Mr Bowen Wells
 

Mr Bowen Wells was elected Chairman 16 July 1997.


 
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