The Agriculture Committee is appointed under
Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
and of 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, the Environmental Audit Committee
and the European Scrutiny Committee) its evidence and any other
documents relating to matters of common interest; and
(d) to meet concurrently with any other such
committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 for the purposes
of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft reports,
or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof
for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence.
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
The following are members of the Committee:
Mr Peter Luff (Chairman)
Mr David Curry
Mr Andrew George
Mr Alan Hurst
Mr Michael Jack
Ms Fiona Jones |
Ms Sally Keeble
Mr Paul Marsden
Mr Austin Mitchell
Mrs Diana Organ
Mr Mark Todd |
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