The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 48 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
Mullin, Mr Chris (Chairman)	48
Allan, Mr Richard (discharged, 8.6.98)	25
Corbett, Mr Robin	38
Cranston, Mr Ross (discharged, 9.11.98)	34
Hawkins, Mr Nick (added, 2.3.98)	15
Hogg, Rt Hon Douglas (discharged, 2.3.98)	16
Howarth, Mr Gerald	40
Hughes, Ms Beverley (discharged, 9.11.98)	32
Johnson, Miss Melanie (added, 9.11.98)	2
Linton, Mr Martin	44
Malins, Mr Humfrey	34
Russell, Mr Bob (added, 8.6.98)	17
Singh, Mr Marsha	29
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul (added, 9.11.98)	2
Winnick, Mr David	47

Overall attendance:   80.1%

Number of Members added:  4

Number of Members discharged:  4

Turnover of membership during the Session:   36%

Staff

Committee Clerk: Mr C J Poyser

Other Committee staff: Mr James Rhys, Assistant Clerk, Grade A3 (until 31 October 1997); Mr Tom Goldsmith, Assistant Clerk, Grade A3 (from 1 November 1997); Mr S D Barrett, Senior Executive Officer, Grade 8; and Ms L Booth, Secretary, 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:-

Cabinet Ministers:  5 (of which two were by a Member of the House of Lords)

Other Ministers:  4

Other Members of the House of Lords  1

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

Home Office  12

Lord Chancellor's Department  2

Crown Prosecution Service  2

executive agencies:  1

comprising:- Prison Service Agency  1

non-departmental public bodies:  4

comprising:- Criminal Cases Review Commission  2

Police Complaints Authority  2

Appearances by other witnesses:  55

Overseas Visits: None

Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
26-27.11.97	European Parliament, Brussels	* 2	1	Conference organised by the EP Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs	£1,301.96
9-10.11.98	European Parliament, Brussels	* 1	1	Conference organised by the EP Committee on Budgetary Control and the Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs	£964.40

* In a representative capacity  

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
10-11.2 98	Greater Manchester Probation Service and Securicor Custodial Services	6	2	Inquiry into Alternatives to Prison Sentences	£1,998.61
24.2.98	Thames Valley Police	4	2	As above	£259.80
23-24.3.98	The Airborne Initiative, Lanarkshire, NCH Intensive Probation Project, Greenock, and the Dumbarton Project	3	2	As above	£2,667.20
30-31.3.98	Northumbria and Teesside Probation Services	2	2	As above	£1,138.80
7.4.98	Sherborne House Probation Centre, Bermondsey, and the Dalston Youth Project	6	3	As above	£195.34
27-28.4. 98	Blackburn Youth Works Project and Lancashire Probation Service	4	2	As above	£1,449.32

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title	HC No. (1997-98)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government   reply
First Report: Police Disciplinary and Complaints Procedures	258-I	15.1.98	67	£10.60	Received 23.3.98: published as Second Special Report, 1997-98
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Police Discipline and Complaints Procedures	258-II	15.1.98	310	£22.60	Not applicable
Second Report: Confidentiality of Police Settlements of Civil Claims	894	2.9.98	41	£8.80	Received 28.11.98: published as First Special Report, 1998-99
Third Report: Alternatives to Prison Sentences	486-I	10.9.98	74	£11.50	Cm 4174, 7.12.98
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Alternatives to Prison Sentences	486-II	10.9.98	348	£25.00	Not applicable
Fourth Report: Electoral Law and Administration	768-I	1.10.98	59	£9.70	Received 17.12.98: published as Second Special Report, 1998-99
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Electoral Law and Administration	768-II	1.10.98	223	£20.50	Not applicable
First Special Report: Government response to the Third Report, Session 1996-97 (Freemasonry in the Police and the Judiciary)	577	3.3.98	3	£1.45	Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government response to the First Report, Session 1997-98	683	16.4.98	15	£4.00	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: the Work of the Home Office (Home Secretary)	215-i	17.9.97	20	£5.50	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: the Work of the Lord Chancellor's Department (Lord Chancellor)	257-i	12.11.97	20	£5.50	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: the Operation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Chairman of the CCRC)	273-i	25.11.97	28	£7.00	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: the Work of the Crown Prosecution Service (DPP)	351-i	5.1.98	44	£8.80	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Policing (Metropolitan Police Commissioner)	409-i	13.1.98	26	£6.20	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: European and other issues (Home Secretary)	562-i	29.4.98	25	£6.20	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Freemasonry in the Police and the Judiciary (United Grand Lodge)	578-i	17.3.98	11	£4.00	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Prisons Issues (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons)	615-i	23.4.98	23	£6.20	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Criminal Justice Issues (Lord Chief Justice)	629-i	23.4.98	21	£5.50	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Prisons Issues (Prisons Minister)	722-i	15.7.98	35	£8.00	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Immigration and Nationality Issues (Immigration Minister)	734-i	22.7.98	54	£9.70	Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1996-97

Reply to the Committee's Second Report: The Management of the Prison Service (Public and Private), published as Cm 3810 (11.12.97).

Divisions

Date	Subject
16.12.97	Two, on consideration of amendments to Chairman's draft Report on Police Disciplinary and Complaints Procedures.
19.2.98	One, on consideration of a motion that the United Grand Lodge of England supply certain papers in connection with the Committee's inquiry into freemasonry and possible miscarriages of justice.
28.7.98	Seven, on consideration of amendments to Chairman's draft report on Confidentiality of Police Settlements of Civil Claims.

Debates: None

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 32 of the Committee's 48 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private. The Committee received 183 memoranda, of which 23 came from Government departments, 2 from an executive agency and 11 from associated public bodies. The Committee published 125 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
Police Disciplinary and Complaints Procedures	7	56	4/0/9	33	23
Confidentiality of Police Settlements of Civil Claims	1	10	1/0/0	9	1
Alternatives to Prison Sentences	8	46	4 /1/0	35	21
Electoral Law and Administration	5	32	3/0/0	19	13
Other	11	39	11 /1/2	29	0
Total	32	183	23/2/11	125	58