Sessional Returns Session 1997-98 - Contents


26. Public Administration

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 43 meetings.



MembersMeetings attended

Morgan, Mr Rhodri (Chairman)  43
Bradley, Mr Peter36
Campbell, Mr Ronnie26
Clark, Dr Lynda35
Hancock, Mr Mike24
Johnson, Miss Melanie34
Jones, Ms Helen (added, 3.2.98)18
Kemp, Mr Fraser17
Mactaggart, Fiona (discharged, 3.2.98)10
Ruffley, Mr David17
Shepherd, Mr Richard30
Tyrie, Mr Andrew18

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



 
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