The Sub-committee was appointed on 23 July 1997.

It had 10 Members and held 49 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
Hodge, Margaret (Chairman) (discharged, 9.11.98)	39
Wicks, Mr Malcolm(added, 10.11.98) (Chairman, from 11.11.98)	2
Atkins, Charlotte	40
Benton, Mr Joe	11
Dafis, Mr Cynog (discharged, 8.12.97)	5
Davey, Valerie	45
Flint, Caroline	41
Foster, Rt Hon Derek	1
Foster, Mr Don	44
Marsden, Mr Gordon, (added, 10.11.98)	2
May, Mrs Theresa	26
St Aubyn, Mr Nick	41
Steinberg, Mr Gerry (discharged, 9.11.98)	19

Overall attendance:   64.5 %

Number of Members added:  2

Number of Members discharged:  3

Turnover of membership during the Session:   30 %

Staff

Committee Clerk: Mr M D Hamlyn

Other Committee staff: Mr R A Rees, Specialist Assistant, Grade 8 (from 12 January 1998); Mr R J Dawson, Chief Office Clerk, Grade 12 (from 1 December 1997); Miss S Wakeling, Secretary, Grade 13

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Mr Graham Badman, Dame Pat Collarbone, Ms Deborah Eyre, Mr Chris Hughes, Mr Roger McClure, Ruth Silver, Professor Alan Smithers and Dr Howard Williamson

Witnesses

Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:

Number of appearances by:-

Cabinet Ministers:  1

Other Ministers:  3 (of whom 1 was a Member of the House of Lords)

Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:-

Department for Education and Employment:  3

other departments:  4

comprising:-Office for Standards in Education  4

non-departmental public bodies:  13

comprising:-Further Education Funding Council  6

Teacher Training Agency  7

Appearances by other witnesses:  115

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
15-18.6.98	Switzerland	7	2	Inquiry into the Role of Headteachers	£9,736 (estimate)

Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg

None.

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
18-19.11.97	Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford and Birmingham	8	3*	Inquiry into Further Education	£1,788.28
16.12.97	FEFC Headquarters, Coventry	7	2**	Inquiry into Further Education	£676.20
2.3.98	Southwark and Tower Hamlets, London	6	2	Inquiry into Further Education	£132.50
11.5.98	OFSTED Headquarters, London	7	2	Informal seminar	£71.82
15-16.9.98	Birmingham	5	5***	Inquiry into the Role of Headteachers	£1,880.17

*     Includes 1 shorthand writer.

**    Includes 1 specialist adviser.

***  Includes 1 specialist adviser and 1 shorthand writer.

Minutes of Evidence  

Title	HC No. (1997-98)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government   reply
Minutes of Evidence: Excellence for All: the Green Paper on Special Educational Needs	421-i	29.1.98	12	£4.00	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: the Annual Report of HM Chief Inspector of Schools 1996-97	551-i	18.3.98	18	£4.75	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: New Appointment Hearing: the OFSTED Complaints Adjudicator	981-i	11.8.98	9	£2.80	Not applicable

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 36 of the Sub-committee's 49 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private. The Sub-committee received 469 memoranda, of which 24 came from Government departments and 11 from associated public bodies. The Sub-Committee published 169 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
Teacher Recruitment: what can be done?	2	25	2/0/2	16	5
Disaffected Children	5	75	5/0/2	43	22
Further Education	11	141	5/0/12	76	46
Funding of Student Loans	1	2	1/0/0	2	0
The work of OFSTED	3	102	3/0/1	0	2
Highly Able Children	1	69	4/0/1	0	0
The Role of Headteachers	10	55	4/0/3	32	21
Other	3	0	0/0/0	0	0
Total	36	469	24/0/11	169	96