Select Committee on Northern Ireland Affairs Sixth Special Report



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 Roy Beggs
      Mr Desmond Browne (discharged 9.11.98)
      Mr Jeffrey Donaldson
      Mr John Grogan
      Mr Stephen Hesford (added 19.2.98)
      Mr Andrew Hunter
      Mr Ken Livingstone (discharged 14.6.99)
      Mr Stephen McCabe (added 9.11.98)
      Mr Eddie McGrady
      Mr Tony McWalter
      Ms Margaret Moran (discharged 19.2.98)
      Mr Stephen Pound (added 14.6.99)
      Mr Peter Robinson
      Mr Martin Salter


 
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