The Committee was nominated on 9 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 52 meetings.

Members	Meetings attended
O'Neill, Mr Martin (Chairman)	51
Baldry, Mr Tony	31
Bercow, Mr John (added, 15.6.98)	13
Berry, Mr Roger	36
Butterfill, Mr John	31
Cunningham, Mr Jim	38
Johnson, Mr Alan (discharged, 19.2.98)	10
Hoyle, Mr Lindsay (added, 19.2.98)	23
Laxton, Mr Bob	42
Merron, Gillian (discharged, 9.11.98 )	27
Morgan, Mr Alasdair	46
Perham, Mrs Linda (added, 22.6.98)	11
Prior, Mr David (discharged, 15.6.98)	30
Southworth, Helen (added, 9.11.98 )	2
Walley, Joan (discharged, 22.6.98)	16

Overall attendance:  71.2 %

Number of Members added:  4

Number of Members discharged:  4

Turnover of membership during the Session:  36 %

Staff

Committee Clerk: Ms A Barry (until 1.10.97); Mr D Natzler (from 1.10.97).

Other Committee staff: Mr M Egan, Assistant Clerk (from 1.10.97); Miss J Gleig, Specialist Assistant, Grade 8 (from 18.5.98); Mr M Oxborough, Higher Executive Officer, Grade 10 (until 9.7.97); Mr T Catinella, Higher Executive Officer, Grade 10 (from 9.7.97); Ms J Recardo, Secretary, Grade 13 (until 5.12.97); Mrs L Andrews, Secretary, Grade 13 (until 1.10.98); and Mrs A Game, Secretary, Grade 13 (from 1.10.98).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor Iain Begg and Professor John Chesshire.

Witnesses

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

Number of appearances by:-

Cabinet Ministers:  2

Other Ministers:  14 (of whom 2 were Members of the House of Lords)

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

Department of Trade and Industry:  34

Other departments:  5

comprising:- Foreign and Commonwealth Office  3

Ministry of Defence  2

Associated Public Bodies:  37

comprising:- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service  2

British Nuclear Fuels Ltd  3

Environment Agency  3

Gas Consumers Council  2

Health and Safety Executive  4

Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland  1

Locate in Scotland  1

Office of Electricity Regulation  3

Office of Gas Supply  2

Post Office Users National Council  2

Scottish Environment Protection Agency  2

The Post Office  4

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority  6

Welsh Development Agency  2

Appearances by other witnesses:  195

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
1-6.3.98	Toyko and Osaka	7	2	Industrial and Trade Relations with Japan	£40,702.30
6-9.7.98	Budapest, Prague and Warsaw	8	2	Industrial and Trade Relations with central Europe	£14,056.60

.

Visits to European Institutions in Brussels and Strasbourg

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
4-5.2.98	European Commission, Brussels	8	2	Meetings with European Commissioners and Officials	£4.413.03

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
30-31.3.98	Aberdeen, Longannet and Torness	6	3*	Energy Policy	£5.378.75
12.5.98	Merseyside and Lancashire	5	2**	Reform of European Structural Funds	£1,201.40
15-16.7.98	Dounreay	6	2*	Georgian Nuclear Material at Dounreay	£3,901.08

* Includes 1 shorthand writer  ** Includes 1 Specialist Adviser

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title	HC No. (1997-98)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government   reply
First Report: Coordination of Inward Investment	355	22.12.97	68	£10.60	Received 20.3.98: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Second Report: Progress in the Liberalisation of the Gas Market	338	21.1.98	145	£18.00	Received 18.5.98: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Third Report: The Post Office	380	22.1.98	108	£13.60	Received 6.4.98: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Fourth Report: Coal	404-I	2.4.98	44	£8.80	Cm 4071 (8.10.98)
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Coal	404-II	2.4.98	263	£22.80	Not applicable
Fifth Report: Energy Policy	471-I	9.6.98	73	£10.60	Cm 4071 (8.10.98)
Memoranda of Evidence: Energy Policy	471-II	9.6.98	226	£20.50	Not applicable
Appendices: Energy Policy	471-III	9.6.98	261	£22.00	Not applicable
Sixth Report: Small and Medium sized Enterprises	774	16.6.98	56	£9.70	Received 19.10.98: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1997-98
Seventh Report: Reform of European Structural Funds	697	25.6.98	107	£13.60	Received 11.9.98: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1997-98
Eighth Report: Aspects of Defence Procurement and Policy	675	23.7.98	143	£15.90	Received 21.10.98: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 1997-98
Ninth Report: Georgian Nuclear Material at Dounreay	815	28.7.98	144	£15.90	Received 27.10.98: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1997-98
Tenth Report: Developments in the Liberalisation of the Domestic Electricity Market	871	29.7.98	94	£12.50	Received 19.10.98: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1997-98
Eleventh Report: Industrial and Trade Relations with Japan	568	6.8.98	147	£15.90	Received 5.10.98: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1997-98
Twelfth Report: Industrial and Trade Relations with central Europe	893	5.11.98	134	£15.90	Reply awaited
First Special Report: Government Reply to Third Report, Session 1996-97	195	30.7.97	7	£2.25	Not applicable
Second Special Report: Govenment Reply to Second Report, Session 1996-97	196	30.7.97	10	£3.40	Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Reply to First Report, Session 1996-97	307	7.11.97	22	£4.75	Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Reply to First Report, Session 1997-98	659	30.3.98	7	£2.25	Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Reply to Third Report, Session 1997-98	684	14.4.98	8	£2.25	Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Government Reply to Second Report, Session 1997-98	747	9.6.98	17	£4.75	Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: Government Replies to Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Reports, Session 1997-98	1130	5.11.98	28	£6.20	Not applicable
Eighth Special Report: Government Reply to Eighth Report, Session 1997-98	1131	3.11.98	25	£2.25	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Department of Trade and Industry	308	5.12.97	19	£5.50	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Memoranda: Fairness at Work	980	2.9.98	103	£13.60	Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Department of Trade and Industry	1138	2.11.98	37	£8.00	Not applicable

Divisions

None

Debates

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

Sixth Report, 1997-98, Small and Medium sized Enterprises, on a Government motion for the Adjournment of the House,19.6.98

Seventh Report, 1997-98, Reform of European Structural Funds, on a Government motion for the Adjournment of the House, 22.10.98.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 36 of the Committee's 52 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private. The Committee received 471 memoranda, of which 42 came from Government departments and 19 from associated public bodies. The Committee published 363 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
Coordination of Inward Investment	1	15	2/0/0	15	0
Progress in the Liberalisation of the Gas Market	2	30	2/0/6	25	5
The Post Office	2	16	1/0/3	16	0
Coal	4	54	5/0/0	54	0
Energy Policy	5	109	1/0/3	98	11
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises	1	12	0/0/0	10	2
Reform of European Structural Funds	2	12	2/0/0	12	0
Industrial and Trade Relation with Japan	3	27	2/0/1	23	4
Aspects of Defence Procurement and Policy	2	21	2/0/0	21	0
Georgian Nuclear Material at Dounreay	3	22	6/0/3	20	2
Developments in the Liberalisation of the Domestic Electricity Market	1	20	0/0/2	20	0
Industrial and Trade Relations with central Europe	2	45	4/0/1	36	0
Fairness at Work	2	17	2/0/0	9	6
The Work of the Department of Trade and Industry	2	5	5/0/0	4	1
Strategic Export Controls	1	28	5/0/0	0	0
Multilateral Agreement on Investment	2	20	1/0/0	0	0
Vehicle Pricing	1	18	2/0/0	0	0
Total	36	471	42/0/19	363	31