26. Public Administration
The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 43 meetings.
|
Members | Meetings attended |
|
Morgan, Mr Rhodri (Chairman) 43 |
Bradley, Mr Peter | 36 |
Campbell, Mr Ronnie | 26 |
Clark, Dr Lynda | 35 |
Hancock, Mr Mike | 24 |
Johnson, Miss Melanie | 34 |
Jones, Ms Helen (added, 3.2.98) | 18 |
Kemp, Mr Fraser | 17 |
Mactaggart, Fiona (discharged, 3.2.98) | 10 |
Ruffley, Mr David | 17 |
Shepherd, Mr Richard | 30 |
Tyrie, Mr Andrew | 18 |
|
Overall attendance: 65.1 %
Number of Members added: 1
Number of Members discharged: 1
Turnover of membership during the Session: 9
%
Staff
Committee Clerk: Dr P C Seaward.
Other Committee staff: Mrs P M Fisher, Higher Executive
Officer, Grade 10; and Miss J Storey, Secretary, Grade 13.
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Patrick Birkinshaw and Mr Robert Hazell.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the
following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:-
Cabinet Ministers: 5 (of whom one was a Member
of the House of Lords also shown below)
Other Ministers: 6 (of whom one was a Member
of the House of Lords also shown below)
Number of appearances by Members of the House of
Lords: 2
Number of appearances by an Officer of the House 5
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives
of:-
Cabinet Office (Office of Public Service) 6
other departments:
comprising:- Department of Social Security 2
executive agencies: 3
comprising:- Child Support Agency 2
Public Record Office 1
non-departmental public bodies: 2
comprising:-Office of the Data Protection Registrar 2
The following officials also attended meetings of
the Committee:-
Mr Michael Buckley, Parliamentary Ombudsman and Health
Service Ombudsman 5
Miss Isabel Nisbet, Deputy Health Service Ombudsman 5
Mr John Avery, Deputy Parliamentary Ombudsman 1
Appearances by other witnesses: 54
Overseas Visits
Date |
Destination
|
Members |
Staff |
Purpose
|
Cost |
23-24.2.98
|
Dublin |
8
|
1
|
Inquiry into Your Right to Know: The Government's Proposals for a Freedom of Information Act
|
£3,531.05
|
12-14.5.98
|
Stockholm |
8
|
1
|
Inquiry into Your Right to Know: The Government's Proposals for a Freedom of Information Act
|
£8,733.43
|
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title |
HC No.
(1997-98)
|
Date of
publication
|
No. of
pages
|
Sale price
|
Government
reply
|
First Report: Public Appointments
|
327
|
18.2.98
|
23
|
£8.80
|
Received 23.4.98: published as Third Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Second Report: Annual Report of the Health Service Ombudsman for 1996-97
|
352
|
11.5.98
|
50
|
£19.50
|
Received 24.7.98: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1997-98
|
Third Report: Your Right to Know: The Government's Proposals for a Freedom of Information Act
Memoranda of Evidence
|
398-I
398-II
|
21.5.98
28.5.98
|
69
191
|
£19.50
£19.50
|
Received 21.7.98: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Not applicable
|
Fourth Report: Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions
|
820
|
25.6.98
|
12
|
£7.00
|
Reply awaited |
Fifth Report: Report of the Northern Ireland Ombudsman for 1997
|
630
|
15.7.98
|
10
|
£5.80
|
Received 25.11.98: published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
Sixth Report: The Government Information and Communication Service
|
770
|
6.8.98
|
38
|
£17.00
|
Received 11.1.99: published as Second Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
First Special Report: Government Response to the First Report from the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration on the Report of the Health Service Ombudsman for 1995-96
|
220
|
31.7.97
|
8
|
£2.25
|
Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Further Government Response to the First Report from the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Session 1996-97) on the Report of the Health Service Ombudsman for 1995-96
|
396
|
4.12.97
|
16
|
£4.00
|
Not applicable |
Third Special Report: Responses to the First Report 1997-98
|
723
|
14.5.98
|
13
|
£4.00
|
Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Third Report 1997-98
|
1020
|
29.7.98
|
20
|
£4.75
|
Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to the Second Report 1997-98
|
1055
|
31.7.98
|
19
|
£4.75
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Rt Hon Dr David Clark MP, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
|
221
|
13.10.97
|
12
|
£4.00
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Role and Responsibilities of the Head of the Home Civil Service
|
285
|
31.12.97
|
20
|
£5.50
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Committee on Standards in Public Life
|
317
|
31.12.97
|
19
|
£5.50
|
Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The 1998 Report of the Office of Public Service
|
733
|
1.7.98
|
17
|
£4.75
|
Not applicable |
Divisions
Date |
Subject
|
5.5.98
24.7.98
|
One, on motion to confirm decision to postpone evidence.
13, on consideration of amendments to Chairman's draft Report on the Government Information and Communication Service.
|
Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to a debate in the House:
Third Report, 1997-98, The Government's proposals for a Freedom
of Information Act and Fourth Report, 1997-98, Ministerial Accountability
and Parliamentary Questions, were the subject of debate on an
Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 6.7.98
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 27 of the Committee's 43 meetings.
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private. The Committee received 263 memoranda, of which 45
came from Government departments, 15 from executive agencies and
22 from associated public bodies. The Committee published 144
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
|
Public Appointments
|
1
|
2
|
0/0/0
|
2
|
0
|
Annual Report of the Health Service Ombudsman for 1996-97
|
7
|
46
|
2/0/0
|
2
|
0
|
Your Right to Know: The Government's Proposals for a Freedom of Information Act
|
7
|
130
|
13/15/22
|
104
|
0
|
Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions
|
0
|
19
|
17/0/0
|
19
|
0
|
Report of the Northern Ireland Ombudsman for 1997
|
1
|
0
|
0/0/0
|
0
|
0
|
The Government Information and Communication Service
|
3
|
16
|
5/0/0
|
12
|
0
|
Annual Report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration for 1997-98
|
2
|
3
|
1/0/0
|
0
|
0
|
Annual Report of the Health Service Ombudsman for 1997-98
|
2
|
10
|
1/0/0
|
0
|
0
|
Other |
4
|
37
|
6/0/0
|
5
|
0
|
Total |
27
|
263
|
45/15/22
|
144
|
0
|
|