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
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Mr Philip Hammond (appointed 17/11/97)
(discharged 22/06/98)
Mrs Eleanor Laing (appointed 22/06/98)
(discharged05/07/99)
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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