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; discharged 26 July 1999).
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 Desmond Swayne (added 26 July 1999).
Mr Malcolm Wicks (discharged 9 November 1998).
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