The Committee was nominated on 5 June 1997.

It had 7 Commons Members and held 48 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
Tredinnick, Mr David (Chairman)	41
Bennett, Mr Andrew F.	33
Burgon, Mr Colin	29
Grieve, Mr Dominic	39
McKenna, Ms Rosemary	30
Organ, Ms Diana	24
Ross, Mr William	17

Overall attendance:   63.3 %

Number of Members added:  0

Number of Members discharged:  0

Turnover of membership during the Session:   0%

Staff

Committee Clerk: Ms L M Gardner.

Other Committee staff: Ms Jane Cooper, Secretary, grade 13.

The Committee also has the assistance of Speaker's Counsel and the Assistants to Speaker's Counsel.

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

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

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

Department of Health  1

Home Office  1

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food  1

Executive agencies (Office for National Statistics)  1

Visits

None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title	HC No. (1997-98)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government   reply
First Report	33-i	11.7.97	14	£4.00	Formal Government replies are not required
Second	33-ii	11.7.97	10	£3.30
Third	33-iii	29.7.97	12	£3.30
Fourth	33-iv	30.7.97	17	£4.65
Fifth	33-v	31.7.97	15	£4.00
Sixth	33-vi	31.7.97	16	£4.00
Seventh	33-vii	31.7.97	7	£2.20
Eighth	33-viii	19.9.97	11	£3.30
Ninth	33-ix	31.10.97	6	£2.20
Tenth	33-x	7.11.97	7	£2.20
Eleventh	33-xi	25.11.97	11	£3.30
Twelfth	33-xii	19.12.97	15	£4.00
Thirteenth	33-xiii	19.12.97	21	£5.30
Fourteenth	33-xiv	12.1.98	18	£4.65
Fifteenth	33-xv	10.12.97	11	£3.30
Sixteenth	33-xvi	14.1.98	17	£4.65
Seventeenth	33-xvii	14.1.98	9	£3.30
Eighteenth	33-xviii	23.1.98	7	£2.20
Nineteenth	33-xix	4.2.98	10	£3.30
Twentieth	33-xx	16.2.98	12	£3.30
Twenty-First	33-xxi	20.2.98	21	£5.30
Twenty-Second	33-xxii	20.2.98	7	£2.20
Twenty-Third	33-xxiii	27.2.98	8	£2.20
Twenty-Fourth	33-xxiv	4.3.98	8	£2.20
Twenty-Fifth	33-xxv	11.3.98	6	£2.20
Twenty-Sixth	33-xxvi	23.3.98	6	£2.20
Twenty-Seventh	33-xxvii	24.3.98	19	£4.65
Twenty-Eighth	33-xxviii	8.4.98	9	£3.30
First Special Report: Departmental Returns on Instruments reported to Parliament in 1997	673	15.4.98	33	£6.70
Twenty-Ninth	33-xxix	27.4.98	8	£2.20
Thirtieth	33-xxx	11.5.98	12	£3.30
Thirty-First	33-xxxi	28.5.98	30	£7.00
Thirty-Second	33-xxxii	28.5.98	8	£2.20
Thirty-Third	33-xxxiii	8.6.98	13	£4.00
Thirty-Fourth	33-xxxiv	8.6.98	9	£3.30
Thirty-Fifth	33-xxxv	29.6.98	12	£3.30
Thirty-Sixth	33-xxxvi	22.6.98	10	£3.30
Thirty-Seventh	33-xxxvii	29.6.98	9	£3.30
Thirty-Eighth	33-xxxviii	2.7.98	5	£2.20
Thirty-Ninth	33-xxxix	13.7.98	7	£2.20
Fortieth	33-xl	13.7.98	4	£1.45
Forty-First	33-xli	27.7.98	5	£1.45
Forty-Second	33-xlii	27.7.98	9	£3.30
Forty-Third	33-xliii	6.8.98	9	£2.70
Forty-Fourth	33-xliv	28.10.98	9	£3.30
Forty-Fifth	33-xlv	9.11.98	10	£3.30
Forty-Sixth	33-xlvi	11.11.98	7	£2.20
Forty-Seventh	33-xlvii	24.11.98	13	£4.00
Forty-Eighth	33-xlviii	2.12.98	11	£3.30

Government replies to Reports for Session 1996-97

None.

Divisions

None.

Debates

The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as containing memoranda being relevant to debates in the House:

Nineteenth Report, HC 33-xix - memorandum relating to the Beef Bones Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2959) for debate on Tuesday 10 February 1998.

Twenty-Seventh Report, HC 33-xxvii - memorandum from the President of the Council on the scrutiny of delegated legislation in the Welsh Assembly and the Scottish Parliament for debate on the Report stage of the Government of Wales Bill on Wednesday 25 March and Thursday 26 March 1998.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 3 of the Committee's 48 meetings. Following the Committee's usual practice, this evidence was taken in private but subsequently published. The Committee received 509 memoranda, all of which came from Government departments. The Committee published 263 memoranda.