The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Northern Ireland Office; administration
and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding
individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and
other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of
State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions,
Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office
of the Legislative Counsel).
The Committee consists of a maximum
of thirteen Members, of whom the quorum is four. 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 persons with technical
knowledge 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 and to the Deregulation 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; 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 28 July 1997 has been as follows:
Mr Peter Brooke (Chairman)
| Mr Harry Barnes
| Mr Stephen McCabe
|
| Mr Roy Beggs
| (added 9.11.98)
|
| Mr Desmond Browne
| Mr Eddie McGrady
|
| (discharged 9.11.98)
| Mr Tony McWalter
|
| Mr Jeffrey Donaldson
| Ms Margaret Moran
|
| Mr John Grogan
| (discharged 19.2.98)
|
| Mr Stephen Hesford
| Mr Stephen Pound
|
| (added 19.2.98)
| (added 14.6.99)
|
| Mr Andrew Hunter
| Mr Peter Robinson
|
| Mr Ken Livingstone
| Mr Martin Salter
|
| (discharged 14.6.99)
| |
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