The Treasury Committee is
appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related
to government departments) to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Treasury, the Board of Inland Revenue and the
Board of Customs and Excise, and associated public bodies. It
has a maximum of twelve members, with 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 committee appointed under the same Standing
Order and to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation
Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee its evidence
and any other documents relating to matters of common interest;
and
(d) to meet concurrently with any other such committee for the
purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft
reports.
The Committee has power to appoint one sub-committee, to report
from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before it and
to lay upon the Table of the House the minutes of its proceedings.
The sub-committee has power to send for persons, papers and records,
to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn
from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of
its proceedings, and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed
under Standing Order No. 152 or any sub-committee thereof for
the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence. It has a quorum
of three.
The Treasury Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997, as follows:
Mr Giles Radice (elected Chairman, 17 July 1997)
Mrs Liz Blackman
Mr Malcolm Bruce (discharged 31 July 1998)
Dr Vincent Cable (added 31 July 1998)
Mr Charles Clarke (discharged 9 November 1998)
Mr Tony Colman (discharged 2 March 1998)
Mr Jim Cousins
Mr Quentin Davies (discharged 15 June 1998)
Mr Nick Gibb (added 15 June 1998) |
Mr David Kidney (added 2 March 1998)
Ms Ruth Kelly (discharged 9 November 1998)
Sir Peter Lloyd
Dr Lewis Moonie (added 9 November 1998)
Mr Brian Sedgemore
Sir Michael Spicer
Jacqui Smith (added 9 November 1998)
Sir Teddy Taylor |
The Committee's reports, evidence and press notices
are available on the Internet via Parliament's home page (www.parliament.uk).
In the Report, numbers preceded by "Q"
refer to question numbers in the oral evidence. Page references
are to written evidence printed with the oral evidence. References
to Appendices are to the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence.
All this evidence is printed in Volume II. The oral evidence and
accompanying written evidence (but not the Appendices) have previously
been published as HC (1997-98) 712-i to -iv.
