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 16 July 1997 is as follows:
| Mr Dennis Canavan
| Mrs Tess Kingham
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| Ann Clwyd
| Mr Andrew Robathan
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| Ms Barbara Follett
| Mr Andrew Rowe
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| Mr Bernie Grant
| Dr Jenny Tonge
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| Mr Piara S Khabra
| Mr Bowen Wells
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| Ms Oona King
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Mr Bowen Wells was elected
Chairman 16 July 1997.
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