The Education and Employment Committee and the Social
Security Committee are appointed under Standing Order No 152 to
examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department
for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security
and their associated public bodies.
The Education and Employment Committee consists
of 17 Members and has a quorum of five. The Social Security Committee
consists of 11 Members and has a quorum of three. Unless the House
otherwise orders, all members nominated to a Committee continue
to be members of it for the remainder of the Parliament.
The Committees have
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 and to the European Scrutiny
Committee, to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation
Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee its evidence
and any other documents relating to matters of common interest;
and
(d) to meet concurrently with any other
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 Education and Employment Committee has power
to appoint two sub-committees and to report from time to time
the minutes of evidence taken before them and to lay upon the
Table of the House the minutes of their 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,
to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings,
and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under the
same Standing Order or any sub-committee thereof, or with the
European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof, for
the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence. Each sub-committee
has a quorum of three.
The membership of the Education and Employment Committee
since its nomination on 14 July 1997 has been as follows:
| Ms Candy Atherton | Mr Paul Keetch
|
| Charlotte Atkins | (added 8.12.97)
|
| Mr Joe Benton | Mrs Eleanor Laing
|
| (discharged 14.6.99)
| Judy Mallaber |
| Mr Graham Brady | Mr Gordon Marsden
|
| Yvette Cooper | (added 9.11.98)
|
| Mr Cynog Dafis | Mrs Theresa May
|
| (discharged 8.12.97)
| (discharged 7.12.98)
|
| Valerie Davey | Mr Bill Rammell
|
| Caroline Flint | (added 14.6.99)
|
| Rt Hon Derek Foster |
Mr Nick St Aubyn |
| Mr Don Foster | Mr Gerry Steinberg
|
| (discharged 29.3.99)
| (discharged 9.11.98)
|
| Mr John Hayes | Mr Malcolm Wicks
|
| (added 7.12.98) |
(added 9.11.98) |
| Mr John Healey | Mr Phil Willis
|
| Ms Margaret Hodge | (added 29.3.99)
|
| (discharged 9.11.98)
| |
The membership of the Social Security Committee since
its nomination on 14 July 1997 has been as follows:
| Ms Karen Buck | Miss Julie Kirkbride
|
| Mr Vernon Coaker | Mr Archy Kirkwood
|
| (added 9.11.98 |
Mr Edward Leigh |
| discharged 1.2.99)
| Siobhain McDonagh |
| Mr Andrew Dismore | (discharged 28.11.97)
|
| (added 9.11.98) |
Kali Mountford |
| Mr Howard Flight | (added 9.11.98)
|
| (added 20.7.98) |
Dr Doug Naysmith |
| Mr Michael Foster (Hastings
| (added 25.1.99) |
| & Rye) (added 9.11.98
| Mr Chris Pond |
| discharged 25.1.99)
| Mr Frank Roy |
| Mr Nick Gibb | (discharged 9.11.98)
|
| (discharged 20.7.98)
| Ms Debra Shipley |
| Mr Paul Goggins | (added 1.2.99)
|
| (added 28.11.97 |
Ms Gisela Stuart |
| discharged 9.11.98)
| (discharged 9.11.98)
|
| Ms Patricia Hewitt |
Mr Malcolm Wicks |
| (discharged 9.11.98)
| (discharged 9.11.98)
|
| Mrs Joan Humble |
|
| (added 9.11.98) |
|
Mr Archy Kirkwood was elected Chairman on 16 July
1997.
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