The Sub-committee was appointed on 25 November 1997 with 4 Members. A further 4 Members were added on 29 January 1998.

It held 5 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
Illsley, Mr Eric (Chairman)	5
Abbott, Ms Diane	5
Anderson, Mr Donald	4
Bottomley, Mrs Virginia (added 29.1.98)	0
Emery, Sir Peter (added 29.1.98)	0
Heath, Mr David (added 29.1.98)	1
Stanley, Sir John (added 29.1.98)	0
Wilshire, Mr David	3

Overall attendance:   45.0 %

Number of Members added:  4

Number of Members discharged:  0

Turnover of membership during the Session:   0 %

Staff

Sub-Committee Clerk: Dr C R M Ward (until 1.11.98) Mr E P Silk (from 1.11.98)

Other Committee staff: Mr M P Atkins, Assistant Clerk (Grade 7); Ms R J Challis, Senior Executive Officer (Grade 8) (until 22.6.98); Mrs C J Oxborough Senior Executive Officer (Grade 8) (from 22.6.98); Ms A M Allen, Secretary (Grade 12) (until 12.1.98); Mrs S Bertasius, Secretary (Grade 12) (from 12.1.98) and Miss A Ferreira, Senior Office Clerk (Grade 13).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

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

Number of appearances by:-

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

Members of the House  3

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

Foreign and Commonwealth Office:  2

executive agencies:  1

comprising:- British Council  1

Appearances by other witnesses:  4

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
21-27.2.98	New Delhi and Islamabad	2	1	Entry Clearance Sub-Committee	£10,355

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

See Fourth Report from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 3 of the Sub-committee's 5 meetings. On 1 of these occasions evidence was taken partly or wholly in private. The Sub-committee received 41 memoranda, of which 2 came from Government departments and 2 from executive agencies. The Committee published 30 memoranda received by the Sub-committee.

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
Entry Clearance Operations with particular reference to New Delhi and Islamabad	3	41	2/2/0	30	6