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Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence

Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 4 May 2000.


CONTENTS

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Examination of witnesses
MR PETER HAIN, a Member of the House, (Minister of State), MR PAUL HARE, Head of Non Proliferation Department, and MR IAN BAILEY, Deputy Head of Section, Export Control Policy, Foreign and Commonwealth office, examined.
Question Number
1 - 19
20 - 39
40 - 59
60 - 79
80 - 99
100 - 119
120 - 137



  The Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees are appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Ministry of Defence, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department of International Development and the Department of Trade and Industry and their associated public bodies.

  The International Development and Trade and Industry Committees consist of 11 Members. The Foreign Affairs Committee consists of 12 Members. They each have a quorum of three. Unless the House otherwise orders, all members nominated to each Committee continue to be members of it for the remainder of the Parliament.

  The Committees have power:

    (a)  to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time;

    (b)  to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference;

    (c)  to communicate to any other committee appointed under the same Standing Order (and to the Committee of Public Accounts, Deregulation Committee, Environmental Audit Committee and European Scrutiny Committee) its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and

    (d)  to meet concurrently with any other such committee or the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or (in the case of any other such committee) considering draft reports.



  The membership of the Foreign Affairs Committee since its nomination on 9 July had been as follows:

Mr Donald Anderson (Chairman)
Ms Diane Abbott,
Rt Hon Mrs Virginia Bottomley (discharged 25.1.99)
Rt Hon Sir Peter Emery
Mr Norman A Godman
Mr David Heath
Mr Eric Illsley
Mr Andrew Mackinlay
Mr Ernie Ross (discharged 22.3.99)
Mr Ted Rowlands
Rt Hon Sir John Stanley
Dr Phyllis Starkey (added 22.3.99)
Mr David Wilshire
Mr Shaun Woodward (added 25.1.99)
 

  Mr Donald Anderson was elected Chairman on 16 July 1997



  The membership of the International Development Committee since its nomination on 9 July 1997 has been as follows:

Mr Bowen Wells (Chairman)
Mr Dennis Canavan (discharged 1.2.99)
Ann Clwyd
Ms Barbara Follett
Mr Bernie Grant (deceased 8.4.2000)
Mr Nigel Jones (added 1.11.99)
Mr Piara S Khabra
Ms Oona King
Tess Kingham
Mr Andrew Robathan
Mr Andrew Rowe
Dr Jenny Tonge (discharged 1.11.99)
Mr Tony Worthington (added 1.2.99)
 

  Mr Bowen Wells was elected Chairman on 16 July 1997.



  The membership of the Trade and Industry Committee since its nomination on 9 July 1997 has been as follows:

Mr Martin O'Neill (Chairman)
Mr Tony Baldry
Mr John Bercow (added 15.6.98)
Mr Roger Berry
Mr John Butterfill
Mr Jim Cunningham
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (added 19.2.98)
Mr Alan Johnson (discharged 19.2.98)
Mr Bob Laxton
Gillian Merron (discharged 9.11.98)
Mr Alasdair Morgan
Linda Perham (added 22.6.98)
Mr David Prior (discharged 15.6.98)
Mrs Helen Southworth (added 9.11.98)
Joan Walley (discharged 22.6.98)

  Mr Martin O'Neill was elected Chairman on 16 July 1997.


 
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