The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 48 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
Wells, Mr Bowen (Chairman)	45
Canavan, Mr Dennis	31
Clwyd, Ann	36
Follett, Mrs Barbara	26
Grant, Mr Bernie	28
Khabra, Mr Piara S	29
King, Ms Oona	31
Kingham, Mrs Tess	32
Robathan, Mr Andrew	32
Rowe, Mr Andrew	35
Tonge, Dr Jenny	42

Overall attendance:   69.5%

Number of Members added:  nil

Number of Members discharged:  nil

Turnover of membership during the Session:   nil%

Staff

Committee Clerk: Mr Yusef Azad

Other Committee staff: Ms Janet Hughes, Assistant Clerk (Grade A3), Mr William Benson, Committee Specialist (from 5.10.98), Ms Jane Appleton, Higher Executive Officer (Grade 10), Mrs Penny Anderson, Secretary (Grade 13).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Mr Aidan Cox

Witnesses

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

Number of appearances by:-

Cabinet Ministers:  11

Other Ministers:   3

(of which 2 were by a Member of the House of Lords)  

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

Department for International Development  27

other departments:  10

comprising:- Foreign and Commonwealth Office  7

HM Treasury  2

Export Credits Guarantee Department  1

associated public bodies  2

comprising:- Commonwealth Development Corporation  2

Appearances by other witnesses:  60

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
15-18.10.97	Montserrat	5	1	Volcanic Eruption	£15,639.13
23.2-7.3.98	Great Lakes	10	2	Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda	£54,044.47
11-14.10.98	Vienna	3*	1	EU/SADC Conference	£4,870.27

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
24-25.11.97	European Commission, Brussels	6	2	Meetings with European Commission Officials: Renegotiation of the Lomé Convention	£4,429.64

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title	HC No. (1997-98)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government   reply
First Report: Montserrat	267	27.11.97	251	£20.50	Received 2.2.98: published as First Special Report, Session 1997-98
Second Report: The Development White Paper	330	22.12.97	124	£14.70	Received 11.3.98: published as Second Special Report, Session 1997-98
Third Report: Debt Relief	563	14.5.98	150	£17.00	Received 20.7.98: published as Third Special Report, Session 1997-98
Fourth Report: Renegotiation of the Lomé Convention	365-I	2.6.98	58	£9.70	Received 27.7.98: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Renegotiation of the Lomé Convention	365-II	2.6.98	301	£22.30	Not applicable
Fifth Report: Department for International Development: 1998 Departmental Report	711	28.7.98	64	£10.60	Received 21.10.98: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Sixth Report: Montserrat - Further Developments	726	4.8.98	56	£9.70	Received 6.10.98: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Seventh Report: Sudan	872-I	7.8.98	23	£5.80	Received 29.9.98: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Sudan	872-II	7.8.98	117	£14.70	Not applicable
Eighth Report: The Future of the Commonwealth Development Corporation	936	6.8.98	82	£11.50	Received 6.10.98: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1997-98
First Special Report: Government Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: Montserrat	532	16.2.98	20	£4.75	Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: The Development White Paper	643	24.3.98	11	£3.40	Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Third Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: Debt Relief	1056	3.8.98	11	£3.40	Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: The Renegotiation of the Lomé Convention	1068	5.8.98	14	£4.00	Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: Montserrat - Further Developments	1098	29.10.98	7	£2.25	Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: Government Response to the Eighth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: The Future of the Commonwealth Development Corporation	1100	29.10.98	9	£3.40	not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Government Response to the Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: Sudan	1099	5.11.98	7	£2.25	Not applicable
Eighth Special Report: Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: Department for International Development: 1998 Departmental Report	1144	18.11.98	13	£4.00	Not applicable

Debates

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

 First Report, 1997-98, Montserrat, on a Government motion for the Adjournment of the House on a

 Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10 (4), 18 February 1998.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 31 of the Committee's 48 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken wholly or partly in private. The Committee received 207 memoranda, of which 46 came from Government departments and 5 from associated public bodies. The Committee published 153 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
Montserrat	5	26	10/0/0	26	0
The Development White Paper	1	36	2/0/0	36	0
Renegotiation of the Lomé Convention	8	47	7/0/0	37	10
Debt Relief	4	15	4/0/0	15	0
Department for International Development:1998 Departmental Report	1	4	4/0/0	4	0
Montserrat - Further Developments	1	9	7/0/0	9	0
Sudan	2	15	6/0/0	15	0
The Future of the Commonwealth Development Corporation	1	11	3/0/5	11	0
Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction	7	36	2/0/0	0	0
The Future of the EC Development Budget	1	8	1/0/0	0	0
Total	31	207	46/0/5	153	10