24. Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege
The Committee was nominated on 30 July 1997.
It had 6 Commons Members and held 25 meetings.
|
| Members | Meetings attended |
|
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Benton, Mr Joe | 15 |
|
Cormack, Sir Patrick | 22 |
|
Michie, Mr Bill | 24 |
|
*Taylor, Mrs Ann | 20 |
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Tyler, Mr Paul | 16 |
|
Williams, Mr Alan | 20 |
|
The symbol * against a Member's name indicates that
she held a Ministerial Post while being a member of the Committee.
Overall attendance: 78 %
Turnover of membership during the Session: nil
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr A J Hastings
Other Committee staff: Mrs E C Samson, Second Clerk
(Grade 5); Miss M Owens, Secretary (until December 1997) (Grade
13) and Miss K Ferries, Secretary (from January 1998) (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: 2
Appearances by other witnesses: 17
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title |
HC No.
(1997-98)
|
Date of
publication
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No. of
pages
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Sale price
|
Government
reply
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Minutes of Evidence: Sir Donald Limon KCB and Mr W R McKay CB, Department of the Clerk of the House of Commons
|
401-i
|
10.12.97
|
20
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Sir Donald Limon KCB and Mr W R McKay CB, Department of the Clerk of the House of Commons
|
401-ii
|
16.1.98
|
14
|
£4.00
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Home Secretary
|
401-iii
|
10.2.98
|
26
|
£6.00
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Mr J M Davies and Mr D Rippengal CB QC, Parliament Office, House of Lords
|
401-iv
|
10.2.98
|
20
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Rt Hon John Morris QC, MP, H.M. Attorney-General
|
401-v
|
16.2.98
|
17
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Hon George Cash MLC and Mr Laurence Marquet, President of the Legislative Council of Western Australia and the Clerk of the Parliaments, Western Australia
|
401-vi
|
20.2.98
|
21
|
£5.30
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Chief Justice of England
|
401-vii
|
2.3.98
|
15
|
£4.00
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Professor Anthony Bradley, University of Edinburgh and Mrs Patricia Leopold, University of Reading
|
401-viii
|
16.3.98
|
27
|
£6.00
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Rt Hon the Lord Weatherill
|
401-ix
|
24.3.98
|
14
|
£4.00
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Rt Hon Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, The Lord President of the Court of Session
|
401-x
|
27.3.98
|
17
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Rt Hon The Lord Newton of Braintree, OBE and The Rt Hon John R R MacGregor, OBE, MP
|
401-xi
|
7.4.98
|
17
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Rt Hon Sir Robert Carswell, The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
|
401-xii
|
9.4.98
|
10
|
£3.30
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Dr Geoffrey Marshall FBA, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford
|
401-xiii
|
12.5.98
|
16
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Sir Gordon Downey KCB, Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and Mr Nigel Pleming QC
|
401-xiv
|
14.5.98
|
18
|
£4.65
|
Not applicable |
Divisions
None
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 15 of the Committee's 25 meetings.
On 1 of these occasions evidence was taken partly in private.
The Committee received 213 memoranda, of which 1 came from a Government
department, 2 from associated public bodies and 19 from Commonwealth
Parliaments. The Committee have published 48 memoranda so far.
Inquiry |
No. of oral evidence sessions
|
No. of memoranda received
|
No. of memoranda received from Government departments/
associated public bodies/
commonwealth parliaments
|
No. of memoranda published
|
No. of memoranda made available in the Record Office for public use and placed in the Library
|
Parliamentary
Privilege
|
15
|
213
|
1/2/19
|
48
|
0
|
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