The Social Security Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Department of Social Security
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 or the Deregulation Committee)
its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common
interest;
(d) to meet concurrently
with any other committee appointed under the same Standing Order
No 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:
| Ms Karen Buck
| Siobhain McDonagh
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| Mr Nick Gibb
| Mr Chris Pond
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| Ms Patricia Hewitt
| Mr Frank Roy
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| Miss Julie Kirkbride
| Ms Gisela Stuart
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| Mr Archy Kirkwood
| Mr Malcolm Wicks
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| Mr Edward Leigh
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Mr Archy Kirkwood was elected
Chairman on 16 July 1997.
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