10B. Education and Employment: Employment
Sub-Committee
The Sub-committee was appointed on 23 July 1997.
It had 10 Members and held 43 meetings.
|
Members | Meetings attended |
|
Foster, Rt Hon Derek (Chairman) | 43 |
Atherton, Candy | 24 |
Brady, Mr Graham (added, 31.7.97) | 32 |
Cooper, Yvette | 37 |
Healey, Mr John | 32 |
Hodge, Margaret (discharged, 9.11.98) | 0 |
Keetch, Mr Paul (added, 9.12.97) | 17 |
Laing, Eleanor (added, 31.7.97) | 16 |
Mallaber, Judy | 36 |
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
|
|