The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related
to government departments) to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Department of the Environment, Transport and
the Regions, and associated public bodies. It has a maximum of
17 members, with a quorum of 5. 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 European Scrutiny Committee, 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, or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any
sub-committee thereof for the purposes of deliberating or taking
evidence.
The Committee has power to appoint two sub-committees, to report
from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before them and
to lay upon the Table of the House the minutes of their proceedings.
The sub-committees have 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 their proceedings, and to meet concurrently with any
committee appointed under the same Standing Order or any sub-committee
thereof, or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee
thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence.
They have a quorum of three.
The membership of the Committee
since its nomination on 14 July 1997 has been:
Mr Andrew F Bennett
Mr Thomas Brake
Christine Butler
Mr John Cummings
Mr Stephen Day (discharged 17/11/97)
Mr Brian Donohoe
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody
Mrs Louise Ellman
Mr Howard Flight (discharged 20/07/98)
Mr Clifford Forsythe
Mrs Teresa Gorman (appointed 30/11/98)
Mr James Gray
Mr Philip Hammond (appointed 17/11/97)
(discharged 22/06/98)
Mrs Eleanor Laing (appointed 22/06/98) (discharged
05/07/99)
Miss Anne McIntosh (appointed 05/07/99)
Mr Bill O'Brien
Mr Bill Olner
Mr Eric Pickles (discharged 30/11/98)
Mr John Randall (appointed 20/07/98)
Mr George Stevenson
Mr Graham Stringer
Dr Alan Whitehead
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