Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

3. Agriculture

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 34 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Luff, Mr Peter (Chairman)
34
Curry, Mr David
21
George, Mr Andrew (discharged, 1.11.99)
26
Hayes, Mr John (discharged, 5.7.99)
16
Hurst, Mr Alan
22
Jack, Mr Michael (added, 5.7.99)
6
Jones, Ms Fiona*
12
Keeble, Ms Sally
22
Mr Richard Livsey (added, 1.11.99)
0
Marsden, Mr Paul
17
Mitchell, Mr Austin
31
Organ, Mrs Diana
23
Todd, Mr Mark
30

* Except 22.3.99 to 30.4.99

Overall attendance:
69.5 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18 %
     
Staff
Committee Clerk: Ms Lynn Gardner, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Julian Clark (Band B1) (until 30.4.99); Mr Richard Kelly (Band B1) (from 13.9.99).
Committee Assistant: Mr Mark Oxborough, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Ms Anne Woolhouse, Secretary (Band D1).
     
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Robert Allan, Professor Allan Buckwell, Mr Richard Butt, Professor David Colman, Professor Peter Hudson, Dr Andrew Palfreman, Professor Timothy Roper, Mr Andrew Sheppard and Professor Alan Swinbank.
     
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
2
          Other Ministers
7
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
          Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
5
          other departments
1
               comprising: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
1
          executive agencies
9
          comprising: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
3
          Central Science Laboratory
1
          Intervention Board
1
          Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (an agency of the Scottish Executive)
3
          Veterinary Laboratories Agency
1
     public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
6
          comprising: Meat and Livestock Commission
3
          Sea Fish Industry Authority
3
Appearances by other witnesses
94

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
1-4.3.99
Spain
6
2
Inquiry into Sea Fishing
£9,573.04
15-17.6.99
Iceland
6
2
Inquiry into Sea Fishing
£10,345.40


Visits to European Institutions

DateDestination MembersStaffPurpose Cost
28-29.4.99European Commission, Brussels 64AInquiries into Sea Fishing and CAP Reform £4,987.17

A Includes 1 specialist adviser

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
2-4.2.99
Newlyn and Penzance
7
5AB
Inquiry into Sea Fishing
£4,331.03
11-12.3.99
Dungannon
1*
0
Ulster Farmers' Union meeting on the pig industry
£413.85
13.4.99
Grimsby
4
5AB
Inquiry into Sea Fishing
£1,768.41
18-20.5.99
Aberdeen, Shetland and Peterhead
5
4C
Inquiry into Sea Fishing
£7,593.75

A Includes 1 specialist adviser
B Includes 1 shorthand writer
C Includes 2 specialist advisers
* Travel in a representative capacity


Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1998 and the Comprehensive Spending Review
125
5.1.99
99
£13.60
Received 4.3.99: published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
Second Report: CAP Reform: Rural Development
61-I
19.1.99
38
£8.00
Received 5.5.99: published as Third Special Report, Session 1998-99
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: CAP Reform: Rural Development
61-II
19.1.99
210
£20.50
Not applicable
Third Report: The UK Pig Industry
87-I
1.2.99
33
£8.50
Received 29.3.99: published as Appendix to Fourth Report, Session 1998-99
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The UK Pig Industry
87-II
1.2.99
217
£20.50
Not applicable
Fourth Report: UK Pig Industry: The Government's Response
367
6.4.99
12
£3.70
Received 10.6.99: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Fifth Report: Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis
233-I
27.4.99
68
£10.60
Received 29.6.99: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis
233-I
27.4.99
247
£22.00
Not applicable
Sixth Report: Genetically Modified Organisms
427
15.6.99
24
£5.80
Not required
Seventh Report: Outcome of the CAP Reform Negotiations
442
29.6.99
60
£9.70
Received 21.9.99: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Eighth Report: Sea Fishing
141-I
5.8.99
104
£14.10
Received 20.10.99: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1998-99
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Sea Fishing
141-II
5.8.99
366
£27.70
Not applicable
Ninth Report: MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1999
852
28.10.99
64
£10.60
Reply awaited
First Special Report: Government Reply to the First Report of the Committee in Session 1998-99 (MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1998 and the Comprehensive Spending Review)
312
17.3.99
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Second Special Report: The Committee's Work, Session 1997-98
313
17.3.99
18
£4.75
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Reply to the Second Report of the Committee in Session 1998-99 (CAP Reform: Rural Development)
441
17.5.99
22
£5.50
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Reply to the Fourth Report of the Committee in Session 1998-99 (The UK Pig Industry: The Government's Response)
573
29.6.99
11
£3.40
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Reply to the Fifth Report of the Committee in Session 1998-99 (Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis)
612
5.7.99
20
£4.75
Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Government Reply to the Seventh Report of the Committee in Session 1998-99 (Outcome of the CAP Reform Negotiations)
825
26.10.99
3
£1.45
Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: Government Reply to the Eighth Report of the Committee in Session 1998-99 (Sea Fishing)
853
2.11.99
19
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Current Crisis in the Livestock Industry
931-i
19.11.99
38
£8.00
Not applicable


Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 17.12.98 as HC 1156, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 892, Session 1998-99.

Divisions

Date
Subject
20.4.99
One, on an amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis.
22.6.99
One, on Motion that the Chairman do make the Report on the Outcome of the CAP Reform Negotiations to the House.
27.7.99
Five, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Sea Fishing.

Debates

The following Report and Special Report were the subject of a debate in the House:

Sixth Report, Session 1997-98, Flood and Coastal Defence, and Fifth Special Report, Session 1997-98, Replies by the Government and the Environment Agency thereto, were the subject of debate on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4), 24.2.99.

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

Second Report, Session 1998-99, CAP Reform: Rural Development, and Third Special Report, the Government Reply thereto, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (European Union), 25.5.99.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 34 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
No. of memoranda received
No. of memoranda received from
No. of memoranda published
No. of memoranda made available in the Record Office for public use and placed in the Library
  
  
  
Govt. Departments
executive agencies
public bodies†
devolved institutions
  
  
MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1998 and the Comprehensive Spending Review*
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
CAP Reform: Rural Development*
1
2
1
0
0
0
32
2
The UK Pig Industry
3
55
3
0
3
0
50
0
Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis
5
62
3
0
3
0
57
5
Genetically Modified Organisms
1
2
2
0
0
0
2
0
Outcome of the CAP Reform Negotiations
1
10
1
0
2
0
9
1
Sea Fishing*
6
62
12
2
5
0
68
5
MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 1999
1
4
4
0
0
0
4
0
Marketing of Milk‡
4
68
1
0
0
1
0
0
Current Crisis in the Livestock Industry‡
1
10
1
0
0
0
0
0
Segregation of GM Foods‡
0
22
2
0
1
0
0
0
Implications for UK Agriculture and EU Agricultural Policy of Trade Liberalisation and the WTO Round
0
16
1
0
1
0
0
0
Total
23
313
31
2
15
1
229
13

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments

*The Committee took oral evidence and received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete

‡ The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1998-99; these figures are therefore incomplete



 
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