The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 46 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
Hinchliffe, Mr David (Chairman)	46
Amess, Mr David (added, 20.07.98)	5
Austin, Mr John	31
Brand, Dr Peter	39
Brook, Mr Peter (discharged, 21.07.97)	0
Drown, Julia	37
Gunnell, Mr John	38
Keen, Ann	22
Lansley, Mr Andrew (discharged, 20.07.98)	28
Stoate, Dr Howard	39
Syms, Mr Robert	23
Walter, Mr Robert (added, 21.07.97)	34
Wise, Audrey	37

Overall attendance:   74.9 %

Number of Members added:  2

Number of Members discharged:  2

Turnover of membership during the Session:   18.2 %

Staff

Committee Clerk: Dr R G James

Other Committee staff: Mr J Whatley, Senior Clerk, Grade 7; Miss S O'Leary, Specialist Assistant, Grade 8, (from 12 January 1998); Mr F McShane, Higher Executive Officer, Grade 10; Mrs S Bertasius, Secretary, Grade 13 (until 11 January 1998); Mrs P Morris, Secretary, Grade 13 (from 12 January until 9 October 1998); and Miss A Richards, Secretary, Grade 13 (from 12 October 1998).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor R L Akehurst, Professor Jane Aldgate, Mrs Rosemary Arkley, Dr David Armstrong, Mr Seán Boyle, Dr Graham Buckley, Dr Henry Burns, Ms Lois Crooke, Mr Chris Davies, Mr Robert Dredge, Mr Richard Harbord, Ms Patricia Oakley, Professor Alan Walker, and Professor Gerald Wistow

Witnesses

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

Number of appearances by:-

Cabinet Ministers:  5

Other Ministers:  9

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

Department of Health:  26

other departments:  2

comprising:- Department for Education and Employment  2

Appearances by other witnesses:  83

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
15-27.06.98	New Zealand and Australia	7	2	Inquiry into Welfare of Former British Child Migrants	£40,415.00

Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg: None

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
03.12.97	St. Mark's Childrens Home, North Kensington	5	2	Inquiry into Children Looked After By Local Authorities	£256.39
08-09.12.97	Wigan, Shrewsbury and Birmingham	5	2	Inquiry into Children Looked After By Local Authorities	£1,400.10
09.02.98	St. John's Centre Secure Unit, Tiffield, Northamptonshire	3	2	Inquiry into Children Looked After By Local Authorities	£362.27
11.02.98	The Centrepoint Refuge, Islington, London	4	2	Inquiry into Children Looked After By Local Authorities	£105.75
27-28.04.98	Dorset	4	3	Inquiry into Children Looked After By Local Authorities	£1,859.02
12-14.05.98	Scotland and Northern Ireland	8	4*	Inquiry into Relationship between Health and Social Services	£7,509.06

* Includes a Specialist Adviser.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title	HC No. (1997-98)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government   reply
First Report: Tobacco Advertising and the Proposed EC Directive	373	26.11.9 (Xerox Copy 28.11.97)	4	£1.75	Cm 3859 - 10.02.98
Second Report: Children Looked After by Local Authorities	319 - I	16.07.98	92	£12.50	Cm 4175 - 17.12.98
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Children looked after by Local Authorities	319 - II	16.07.98	407	£29.20	Not applicable
Third Report: The Welfare of Former British Child Migrants	755 - I	30.07.98	44	£8.80	Cm 4182 - 14.12.98
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Welfare of Child Migrants	755 - II	10.08.98	341	£25.70	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Expenditure 1997	362-i	26.1.98	36	£8.00	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Health	373-i	22.12.97	24	£6.20	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Health Policy and Expenditure Matters	443 - i	12.02.98	20	£5.50	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 1998	959	02.11.98	183	£19.50	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Expenditure 1998	988 - i	24.08.98	18	£4.75	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Expenditure 1998	988 - ii	05.10.98	50	£8.00	Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1996-97

Reply to the previous Committee's Second Report: The Specific Heath Needs of Children and Young People, HC 307; Third Report: Health Services for Children and Young People in the Community: Home and School, HC 314; Fourth Report: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, HC 26; Fifth Report: Hospital Services for Children and Young People, HC 128, Published as Cm 3796 (4.11.97)

Divisions: None

Debates

The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

Second Report, 1996-97, The Specific Health Needs of Children and Young People; Third Report, 1996-97, Health Services for Children and Young People in the Community; Fourth Report, 1996-97 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; Fifth Report Hospital Services for Children and Young People, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning under Standing Order No. 10(4) [25.03.98]

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 27 of the Committee's 46 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private. The Committee received 601 memoranda, of which 22 came from Government departments, none from executive agencies and 5 from associated public bodies. The Committee published 113 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
Tobacco Advertising and The Proposed EC Directive	1	Nil	0/0/0	0	0
Children Looked After by Local Authorities	7	78	9/0/2	52	26
Welfare of Former British Child Migrants	4	335	4/0/0	61	274
Relationship between Health and Social Services*	10	110	8/0/3	-	-
Primary Care Groups*	1	-	0/0/0	-	-
NHS Staffing*	-	78	1/0/0	-	-
Other	4	0	0/0/0	-	-
Total	27	601	22/0/5	113	300

* Inquiry not complete at end of the session.