10. SELECT COMMITTEES
3. Agriculture
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 34 meetings.
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Members | Meetings
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| attended
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Luff, Mr Peter (Chairman) | 34
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Curry, Mr David | 21
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George, Mr Andrew (discharged, 1.11.99) |
26 |
Hayes, Mr John (discharged, 5.7.99) | 16
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Hurst, Mr Alan | 22
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Jack, Mr Michael (added, 5.7.99) | 6
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Jones, Ms Fiona* | 12
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Keeble, Ms Sally | 22
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Mr Richard Livsey (added, 1.11.99) | 0
|
Marsden, Mr Paul | 17
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Mitchell, Mr Austin | 31
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Organ, Mrs Diana | 23
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Todd, Mr Mark | 30
|
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* Except 22.3.99 to 30.4.99
Overall attendance: | 69.5 %
|
Number of Members added: | 2
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Number of Members discharged: | 2
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Turnover of membership during the Session: |
18 % |
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Staff | |
Committee Clerk: Ms Lynn Gardner, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
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Committee Specialist: Mr Julian Clark (Band B1) (until 30.4.99); Mr Richard Kelly (Band B1) (from 13.9.99).
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Committee Assistant: Mr Mark Oxborough, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
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Secretary: Ms Anne Woolhouse, Secretary (Band D1).
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Specialist Advisers during the Session
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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.
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Witnesses | |
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
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Number of appearances by:
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Cabinet Ministers
| 2 |
Other Ministers
| 7 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
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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
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff | Purpose
| Cost |
28-29.4.99 | European Commission, Brussels
| 6 | 4A | Inquiries 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
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20.4.99
| One, on an amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis.
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22.6.99
| One, on Motion that the Chairman do make the Report on the Outcome of the CAP Reform Negotiations to the House.
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27.7.99
| Five, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Sea Fishing.
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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
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| 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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