The Social Security Committee is appointed under
Standing Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Department of Social Security and associated
public bodies.
The Committee consists of 11 Members. It has
a quorum of 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 committee appointed
under the same Standing Order (or to the European Scrutiny Committee,
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 committee
appointed under Standing Order No. 152 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 has been as follows:
Ms Karen Buck
Mr Vernon Coaker (added 9 November 1998; discharged
1 February 1999).
Mr Andrew Dismore (added 9 November 1998).
Mr Howard Flight (added 20 July 1998).
Mr Michael Foster (Hastings
and Rye) (added 9
November 1998; discharged 25 January 1999).
Mr Nick Gibb (discharged 20 July 1998).
Mr Paul Goggins (added 28 November 1997; discharged
9 November 1998).
Mr Frank Roy (discharged 9 November 1998).
Ms Patricia Hewitt (discharged 9 November 1998).
Mrs Joan Humble (added 9 November 1998).
Miss Julie Kirkbride
Mr Archy Kirkwood (elected Chairman 16 July 1997).
Mr Edward Leigh
Siobhain McDonagh (discharged 28 November 1997).
Kali Mountford (added 9 November 1998).
Dr Doug Naysmith (added 25 January 1999).
Ms Gisela Stuart (discharged 9 November 1998).
Mr Chris Pond
Ms Debra Shipley (added 1 February 1999).
Mr Malcolm Wicks (discharged 9 November 1998).
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