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 five. 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 |
Mrs Eleanor Laing |
| Mr Thomas Brake | (appointed 22/06/98)
|
| Christine Butler | (discharged 05/07/99)
|
| Mr John Cummings | Miss Anne McIntosh
|
| Mr Stephen Day | (appointed 05/07/99)
|
| (discharged 17/11/97)
| Mr Bill O'Brien |
| Mr Brian Donohoe | Mr Bill Olner
|
| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody | Mr Eric Pickles
|
| Mrs Louise Ellman | (discharged 30/11/98)
|
| Mr Howard Flight | Mr John Randall
|
| (discharged 20/07/98)
| (appointed 20/07/98)
|
| Mr Clifford Forsythe | Mr George Stevenson
|
| Mrs Teresa Gorman | Mr Graham Stringer
|
| (appointed 30/11/98)
| Dr Alan Whitehead |
| Mr James Gray | |
| Mr Philip Hammond | |
| (appointed 17/11/97)
| |
| (discharged 22/06/98)
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