3. Agriculture
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 49 meetings.
|
| Members | Meetings attended |
|
|
Luff, Mr Peter (Chairman) | 48 |
|
Curry, Mr David (added,15.6.98) | 7 |
|
Collins, Mr Tim (discharged, 15.6.98) | 29 |
|
George, Mr Andrew | 35 |
|
Hayes, Mr John | 34 |
|
Hurst, Mr Alan | 37 |
|
Jones, Ms Fiona | 22 |
|
Keeble, Ms Sally | 42 |
|
Marsden, Mr Paul | 25 |
|
Mitchell, Mr Austin | 44 |
|
Organ, Mrs Diana | 35 |
|
Todd, Mr Mark | 40 |
|
Overall attendance: 73.8 %
Number of Members added: 1
Number of Members discharged: 1
Turnover of membership during the Session: 9
%
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr N P Walker (until 31 October
1998); Ms L M Gardner (from 1 November 1998)
Other Committee staff: Mr J R A Clark, Specialist
Assistant (Grade 8) (from 2 February 1998); Mr F McShane, Higher
Executive Officer (Grade 10) (until 8 July 1997); Mr M P Oxborough,
Higher Executive Officer (Grade 10) (from 9 July 1997); Mrs S
B Niven, Secretary (Grade 13) (until 31 October 1998); Ms A Woolhouse,
Secretary (Grade 13) (from 1 October 1998).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Robert Allan, Professor Allan Buckwell, Mr Richard
Butt, Dr Andrew Palfreman, Dr Martin Palmer, Professor John Pethick,
Dr Mike Stringer, Professor Alan Swinbank and Professor Ronald
Walker
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the
following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:-
Cabinet Ministers: 4
Other Ministers: 3
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives
of:-
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: 12
other departments: 3
comprising:- Department of the Environment, Transport
and the Regions 1
Department of Health 1
Scottish Office 1
executive agencies: 8
comprising:- Centre for Environment, Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science 1
Intervention Board 2
Meat Hygiene Service 2
Pesticides Safety Directorate 3
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food associated
public bodies: 3
comprising:- Meat and Livestock Commission 3
Department of the Environment, Transport and the
Regions associated public bodies : 14
comprising:- Countryside Commission 4
English Nature 4
Environment Agency 3
Rural Development Commission 3
Department of Health associated public bodies : 6
comprising:- Advisory Committee on the Microbiological
Safety of Food 1
Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer
Products and the Environment 1
Public Health Laboratory Service 4
Appearances by other witnesses: 129
Overseas Visits
Date |
Destination
|
Members |
Staff |
Purpose
|
Cost |
16-21.3.98
|
Washington DC |
8 |
2 |
Inquiries into CAP Reform: Agenda 2000 and
Food Safety
|
£42,314.25
|
5-7.5.98
|
Rome |
1*
|
1
|
Conference of Chairmen of European Union Member States' Parliaments' Agriculture Committees
|
£1,730.08
|
*Member travelling in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and
Strasbourg
Date |
Destination
|
Members |
Staff |
Purpose
|
Cost |
3.12.97 |
European Commission, Brussels
|
4
|
3*
|
Inquiries into CAP Reform: Agenda 2000 and Food Safety
|
£2,326.84
|
14-15.10.98
|
European Commission, Brussels
|
8
|
4*
|
Inquiry into CAP Reform: Rural Development
|
£5,342.95
|
* Includes 1 specialist adviser.
UK Visits
Date
|
Destination
|
Members
|
Staff
|
Purpose
|
Cost
|
29.7.97 |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Whitehall Place
|
8
|
2
|
Inquiry into MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1997
[ Briefing by Minister]
|
Nil
|
12.11.97
|
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Whitehall Place
|
6
|
2
|
Inquiry into MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1997 [Meeting with MAFF officials]
|
Nil
|
15.10.97
|
Anglo Beef Processors Ltd, Murton and Meat Hygiene Service, York
|
8
|
2
|
Inquiry into MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1997
|
£1,649.74
|
4.2.98 |
Campden and Chorleywood Food Research Association, Chipping Campden, and Cotswolds farms
|
6
|
3
|
Inquiry into Food Safety
|
£846.82
|
24.2.98 |
Premier Poultry Ltd, Newark, and Tesco, Lincoln
|
3
|
3
|
Inquiry into Food Safety
|
£965.15
|
3-4.6.98 |
Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Humberside
|
4
|
4*
|
Inquiry into Flood and Coastal Defence
|
£2,448.18
|
11.6.98 |
Thames Flood Barrier
|
6
|
3*
|
Inquiry into Flood and Coastal Defence
|
£319.06
|
24.6.98 |
Peterborough
|
5
|
3*
|
Inquiry into Flood and Coastal Defence
|
£698.58
|
10.11.98 |
Herefordshire |
4
|
4*
|
Inquiry into CAP Reform: Rural Development
|
£1,176.12
|
* Includes 1 specialist adviser.
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title |
HC No.
(1997-98)
|
Date of
publication
|
No. of
pages
|
Sale price
|
Government
reply
|
First Report: MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1997
|
310
|
16.12.97
|
58
|
£9.70
|
Received 23.2.98: published as First Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Second Report: CAP Reform: Agenda 2000
|
311-I
|
25.2.98
|
42
|
£8.80
|
Received 28.4.98: published as Second Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: CAP Reform: Agenda 2000
|
311-II
|
25.2.98
|
304
|
£23.40
|
Not applicable |
Third Report: The UK Beef Industry
|
474-I
|
3.3.98
|
28
|
£6.50
|
Received 29.4.98:
published as Third Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The UK Beef Industry
|
474-II
|
3.3.98
|
156
|
£17.00
|
Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Food Safety
|
331-I
|
29.4.98
|
67
|
£10.60
|
Received 26.6.98:
published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Food Safety
|
331-II
|
29.4.98
|
708
|
£49.50
|
Not applicable |
Fifth Report: Vitamin B6
|
753
|
23.6.98
|
234
|
£20.50
|
Received 30.7.98: published as Appendix to Seventh Report, Session 1997-98
|
Sixth Report: Flood and Coastal Defence
|
707-I
|
5.8.98
|
54
|
£9.70
|
Received 15.10.98:
published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Flood and Coastal Defence
|
707-II
|
5.8.98
|
343
|
£26.30
|
Not applicable |
Seventh Report: Vitamin B6: The Government's Decision
|
1083
|
4.8.98
|
9
|
£2.55
|
Not required |
First Special Report: Government Reply to the First Report of the Committee in Session 1997-98 (MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1997)
|
602
|
5.3.98
|
8
|
£2.25
|
Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Government Reply to the Second Report of the Committee in Session 1997-98 (CAP Reform: Agenda 2000)
|
719
|
12.5.98
|
8
|
£2.25
|
Not applicable |
Third Special Report: Government Reply to the Third Report of the Committee in Session 1997-98 (The UK Beef Industry)
|
720
|
12.5.98
|
9
|
£3.40
|
Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Government Reply to the Fourth Report of the Committee in Session 1997-98 (Food Safety)
|
889
|
2.7.98
|
18
|
£4.75
|
Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: Replies by the Government and the Environment Agency to the Sixth Report of the Committee in Session 1997-98 (Flood and Coastal Defence)
|
1117
|
29.10.98
|
31
|
£6.70
|
Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 1996-97
Reply to the Committee's Second Report: Environmentally Sensitive
Areas and Other Schemes under the Agri-environment Regulation,
published as Cm 3707 (16.7.97).
Divisions
Date |
Subject
|
22.4.98
|
Seven, on consideration of amendments to Chairman's draft Report on Food Safety
|
Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to debates in the House:
Third Report, 1997-98, The UK Beef Industry, and Third Special
Report, the Government reply thereto, were the subject of debate
on an Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 14.7.98;
Second Report, 1997-98, CAP Reform: Agenda 2000, and Second Special
Report, the Government reply thereto, on a Government motion to
take note of the Reports, 21.5.98;
Fifth Report, 1993-94, Health Controls on the Importation of Live
Animals, on a Government motion for the Adjournment of the House,
29.10.98.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 31 of the Committee's 49 meetings.
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private. The Committee received 861 memoranda, of which 27
came from Government departments, 4 from executive agencies and
52 from associated public bodies. The Committee published 395
memoranda.
Inquiry |
No. of oral evidence sessions
|
No. of memoranda received
|
No. of memoranda received from Government departments/
executive agencies/
associated
public bodies
|
No. of memoranda published
|
No. of memoranda made available in the Record Office for public use and placed in the Library
|
MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1997
|
1
|
5
|
5/0/0
|
5
|
0
|
CAP Reform: Agenda 2000
|
4
|
67
|
1/0/7
|
67
|
0
|
The UK Beef Industry
|
2
|
43
|
2/0/2
|
41
|
0
|
Food Safety |
10
|
148
|
3/3/18
|
140
|
8
|
Vitamin B6 |
2
|
461
|
3/0/4
|
66
|
385
|
Flood and Coastal Defence
|
5
|
78
|
3/1/10
|
71
|
6
|
MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1998 and the Comprehensive Spending Review
|
2
|
7
|
7/0/0
|
0
|
0
|
CAP Reform: Rural Development
|
4
|
32
|
2/0/9
|
5
|
0
|
Sea Fishing |
1
|
18
|
1/0/2
|
0
|
0
|
The UK Pig Industry
|
0
|
2
|
0/0/0
|
0
|
0
|
Total |
31
|
861
|
27/4/52
|
395
|
399
|
|
