Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
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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)
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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)
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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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