Select Committee on Environmental Audit Seventh Report



The Committee consists of sixteen Members. It has a quorum of four. 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:

  • 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;

  • to appoint specialist advisers to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference;

  • to communicate its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest to any committee appointed by this House or by the Lords; and

  • to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments), or any sub-committee thereof, or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof, or with any committee appointed by the Lords, or any sub-committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or examining witnesses.



Membership of the Committee since its establishment in November 1997:

Mr John Horam, Chairman.


Mr Norman BakerMr Laurence Robertson
    (appointed 2 December) Mr Malcolm Savidge
Mr Bob BlizzardMr Jonathan R. Shaw
Mrs Helen BrintonMr Matthew Taylor
Mr Cynog Dafis    (appointed 17 November,
    (appointed 17 November)     discharged 2 December)
Mr Dominic GrieveMr Gareth R. Thomas
Dr Brian IddonMr Paul Truswell
Mr Tim LoughtonJoan Walley
Rt Hon Michael Meacher
    (appointed 19 December)*



*The Minister for the Environment has ex-officio membership of the Committee in like manner to the Financial Secretary's membership of the Committee of Public Accounts.


 
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