The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Department of the Environment,
Transport and the Regions and associated public bodies.
The Committee consists of 17 Members. It has
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 other committee
appointed under the same Standing Order (or to the Committee of
Public Accounts, the Deregulation Committee or the Environmental
Audit Committee) its evidence and any other documents relating
to matters of common interest;
(d) to meet concurrently with any other
such committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence,
or considering draft reports.
The Committee has power to appoint two sub-committees
and to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken
before them and their minutes of 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,
and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under the
same Standing Order or any sub-committee thereof for the purposes
of deliberating or taking evidence.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 14 July 1997 has been:
| Mr Andrew F Bennett |
Mr James Gray |
| Mr Thomas Brake | Mr Philip Hammond (appointed 17/11/97)
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| Christine Butler | (discharged 22/06/98)
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| Mr John Cummings | Mrs Eleanor Laing (appointed 22/06/98)
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| Mr Stephen Day (discharged 17/11/97)
| Mr Bill O'Brien |
| Mr Brian Donohoe | Mr Bill Olner
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| Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody |
Mr Eric Pickles (discharged 30/11/98)
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| Mrs Louise Ellman | Mr John Randall (appointed 20/07/98
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| Mr Howard Flight (discharged 20/07/98)
| Mr George Stevenson |
| Mr Clifford Forsythe |
Mr Graham Stringer |
| Mrs Teresa Gorman (appointed 30/11/98)
| Mr Alan Whitehead |
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