Sessional Returns Session 1997-98 - Contents


10B. Education and Employment: Employment Sub-Committee

The Sub-committee was appointed on 23 July 1997.

It had 10 Members and held 43 meetings.



MembersMeetings attended

Foster, Rt Hon Derek (Chairman)43
Atherton, Candy24
Brady, Mr Graham (added, 31.7.97)32
Cooper, Yvette37
Healey, Mr John32
Hodge, Margaret (discharged, 9.11.98)0
Keetch, Mr Paul (added, 9.12.97) 17
Laing, Eleanor (added, 31.7.97)16
Mallaber, Judy36
St. Aubyn, Mr Nick (added, 26.3.98, discharged, 12.5.98)2

Overall attendance:   55.6 %

Number of Members added:  4

Number of Members discharged:  2

Turnover of membership during the Session:   20 %

Staff

Committee Clerk: Mr K C Fox

Other Committee staff: Mr E C Lally, Specialist Assistant (Grade 8) (from 5 January 1998); Ms C M Genis, Higher Executive Officer, Grade 10; Miss B Cotter, Secretary (temporary) (from 12 January 1998 until 9 April 1998); Miss L Joliffe, Secretary (temporary) (from 20 April 1998 until 21 May 1998); Miss Z Leeds, Secretary (temporary) (from 1 June 1998 until 5 June 1998); Miss C Halls, Secretary (temporary) (from 15 June 1998 until 31 July 1998); and Ms P Morris, Secretary (Grade 13) (from 12 October 1998).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor Robert Bennett, Dr Dan Finn, Dr Jane Pillinger, Mr Richard Scothorne, Mr Jonathan Stern and Mr Michael Ward.

Witnesses

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

Number of appearances by:-

Cabinet Ministers:  1

Other Ministers:  4

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

Department for Education and Employment  11

other departments:  4

comprising:- Department for Trade and Industry  3

Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions  1

executive agencies:  12

 comprising:- Employment Service  12

non-departmental public bodies:  6

comprising:-Equal Opportunities Commission   2

Welsh Development Agency (an agency of the Welsh Office)  3

Scottish Enterprise (an agency of the Scottish Office)  1

Appearances by other witnesses:  85

Overseas Visits

  Date

  Destination

  Members

  Staff

  Purpose

  Cost

31.10-7.11.98

Australia

5

2

The Performance and Future Role of the Employment Service

£38,350

(estimate)

Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg

  Date

  Destination

  Members

  Staff

  Purpose

  Cost

1.12.97

European Commission, Brussels

6

3*

Oral evidence from European Commissioner and meetings with European Commission Officials

£2,823.72

2-3.6.98

Brussels

3

0

Committee Delegation attending Conference of EU Member States' Parliamentary Committees on Employment and Social Affairs

£1,158.86

* Includes 1 specialist adviser and 1 shorthand writer.

UK Visits

Date

Destination

Members

Staff

Purpose

Cost

24.3.98

Wolverhampton

6

3*

New Deal Pathfinders

£728.75

30.3.98

Cornwall

6

3*

New Deal Pathfinders

£1,924.29

* Includes 1 specialist adviser.

Minutes of Evidence  

  Title

HC No.

(1997-98)

Date of

publication

No. of

pages

Sale price

  Government

  reply


Minutes of Evidence: EU Employment Issues

391-i and ii

25.3.98

20

£5.50

Not applicable

Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The New Deal/The New Deal Pathfinders

263-III

25.8.98

199

£19.50

Not applicable

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 31 of the Sub-committee's 43 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private. The Sub-committee received 390 memoranda, of which 33 came from Government departments, 5 from executive agencies and 11 from associated public bodies. The Sub-Committee published 114 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

The New Deal and The New Deal (Pathfinders)

11

222

16/1/3

85

133

The Relationship between TECs and the Proposed Regional Development Agencies

4

15

3/1/1

10

7

European Employment Issues

2

0

0/0/0

0

0

Pathways into Work for Lone Parents

3

23

7/0/2

19

6

Part-time Working

9

79

6/0/4

0

0

The Performance and Future Role of the Employment Service

2

51

1/3/1

0

0

Total

31

390

33/5/11

114

146

  


 
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