The International Development Committee is appointed under Standing
Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy
of the Department for International Development.
The Committee consists of a maximum of eleven Members, of whom
the quorum is three. 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 such committee and to the
European Scrutiny Committee, to the Committee of Public Accounts,
to the Deregulation Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee
to their 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 membership of the Committee since its nomination on 14 July
1997 is as follows:
| Mr Dennis Canavan (discharged 01.02.99)
| Tess Kingham |
| Ann Clwyd | Mr Andrew Robathan
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| Ms Barbara Follett | Mr Andrew Rowe
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| Mr Bernie Grant | Dr Jenny Tonge
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| Mr Piara S Khabra | Mr Bowen Wells
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| Ms Oona King | Mr Tony Worthington (added 01.02.99)
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Mr Bowen Wells was elected Chairman 16 July 1997.
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