10. SELECT COMMITTEES
10. Education and Employment
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 17 Members and held 24 meetings. This included
1 meeting held concurrently with the Social Security Committee
(abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).
|
| Members | Meetings
|
| attended
|
|
| |
| Atherton, Ms Candy | 12
|
| Atkins, Charlotte | 16 (including 1 CM)
|
| Benton, Mr Joe (discharged, 14.6.99) | 0
|
| Brady, Mr Graham | 12
|
| Cooper, Yvette | 6
|
| Davey, Valerie | 19 (including 1 CM)
|
| Flint, Caroline | 19 (including 1 CM)
|
| Foster, Mr Derek | 22 (including 1 CM)
|
| Foster, Mr Don (discharged, 29.3.99) | 3
|
| Harris, Dr Evan (added, 1.11.99) | 1
|
| Hayes, Mr John (added, 7.12.98) | 6
|
| Healey, Mr John | 12 (including 1 CM)
|
| Keetch, Mr Paul (discharged, 1.11.99) | 0
|
| Laing, Mrs Eleanor | 0
|
| Mallaber, Judy | 9 (including 1 CM)
|
| Marsden, Mr Gordon | 12
|
| May, Mrs Theresa (discharged, 7.12.98) |
0 |
| Rammell, Mr Bill (added, 14.6.99) | 4
|
| St Aubyn, Mr Nick | 15
|
| Wicks, Mr Malcolm | 20 (including 1 CM)
|
| Willis, Mr Phil (added, 29.3.99) | 6
|
|
| Overall attendance: | 47.5 %
|
| Number of Members added: | 4
|
| Number of Members discharged: | 4
|
| Turnover of membership during the Session: |
24 % |
|
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Matthew Hamlyn, Deputy Principal Clerk
(Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Tom Healey, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialists: Mr Eamon Lally (Band B1) and Mr Robert
Rees (Band B1 ).
Committee Assistants: Ms Clare Genis, Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2) and Mr Richard Dawson, Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
Secretaries: Miss Pam Morris, Secretary (Band D1); Miss Susan
Wakeling, Secretary (Band D1) (until 26 February 1999); Ms Claire
Halls (temporary) (from 1 March 1999).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Robert Bennett, Ms Deborah Eyre, Dr Dan Finn, Ms
Marilyn Howard, Mr Nigel Meager, Dr Jenny Morris, Dr Jane Pillinger,
Mr Richard Scothorne, Mr Tony Travers, Mr Michael Ward and Dr
Howard Williamson.
| Witnesses | |
| Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
| Number of appearances by:
| |
| Cabinet Ministers
| 0 |
| Other Ministers
| 2 |
| Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
| Department for Education and Employment
| 13 |
| Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
| 3 |
| comprising: Remploy Limited
| 3 |
| Appearances by other witnesses
| 37 |
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
| Title |
HC No.(1998-99)
| Date of
publication
| No. of
pages
| Sale price
| Government
reply
|
| First Report: Active Labour Market Policies and their Delivery: Lessons from Australia
| 163
| 26.1.99
| 63 |
£10.60
| Not required |
| Second Report: Part-Time Working
| 346-I
| 30.3.99
| 59 |
£ 9.70
| Received 18.6.99: published as Third Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Part-Time Working
| 346-II
| 30.3.99
| 320 |
£23.50
| Not applicable |
| Third Report: Highly Able Children
| 22-I |
28.4.99 |
62 | £10.60
| Received 29.6.99: published as Forth Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Highly Able Children
| 22-II |
29.4.99 |
184 | £19.50
| Not applicable |
| Fourth Report: The Work of OFSTED
| 62-I |
14.6.99 |
85 | £12.50
| Received 26.7.99: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
| Minutes of Evidence: The Work of OFSTED
| 62-II |
24.6.99 |
192 | £19.50
| Not applicable |
| Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence: The Work of OFSTED
| 62-III
| 24.6.99
| 302 |
£22.10
| Not applicable |
| Fifth Report: The Role of School Governors
| 509-I |
21.7.99 |
67 | £10.60
| Received 25.10.99: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Role of School Governors
| 509-II
| 4.8.99
| 204 |
£19.50
| Not applicable |
| Sixth Report: The ONE Service Pilots
| 412 |
27.7.99 |
233 | £19.95
| Received 4.10.99: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
| Seventh Report: The Performance and Future of the Employment Service
| 197-I |
28.7.99 |
39 | £8.00
| Received 7.10.99: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Performance and Future of the Employment Service
| 197-II
| 30.7.99
| 288 |
£21.70
| Not applicable |
| Eighth Report: Access for All? A Survey of Post-16 Participation
| 57-I |
10.11.99 |
54 | £9.70
| Reply awaited |
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Access for All? A Survey of Post-16 Participation
| 57-II |
10.11.99 |
203 | £19.50
| Not applicable |
| Ninth Report: Opportunities for Disabled People
| 111-I |
24.11.99 |
72 | £10.60
| Reply awaited |
| First Special Report: The Government's Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: Further Education
| 56 |
7.12.98 |
19 | £4.75
| Not applicable |
| Second Special Report: The Government's Response to the Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1997-98: The Role of Headteachers
| 164 |
25.1.99 |
6 | £2.25
| Not applicable |
| Third Special Report: The Government's Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: Part-Time Working
| 609 |
2.7.99 |
9 | £3.40
| Not applicable |
| Fourth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Third Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: Highly Able Children
| 610 |
7.7.99 |
24 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
| Fifth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: The Work of OFSTED
| 791 |
29.7.99 |
35 | £7.70
| Not applicable |
| Sixth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99:The ONE Service Pilots
| 855 |
28.10.99 |
19 | £4.75
| Not applicable |
| Seventh Special Report: The Government's Response to the Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99:The Performance and Future Role of the Employment Service
| 858 |
2.11.99 |
12 | £3.40
| Not applicable |
| Eighth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: The Role of School Governors
| 859 |
2.11.99 |
11 | £3.40
| Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The DfEE's Expenditure Plans 1998-99
| 165 |
20.4.99 |
72 | £10.60
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98
were published on 18.11.98 as HC 1161, Session 1997-98. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published
as HC 898, Session 1998-99.
Divisions
| Date | Subject
|
| 20.4.99 | Two, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Highly Able Children.
|
| 4.5.99 | One, on membership of Employment Sub-committee.
|
| 9.11.99 | One, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Opportunities for Disabled People.
|
Debates
The following Reports were the subjects of debates in the House:
Seventh Report, Session 1997-98, Pathways into Work for Lone Parents,
on an Estimates Day under Standing Order No. 54, 10.12.98.
Eighth Report, Session 1997-98, New Deal Pathfinders, on an Estimates
Day under Standing Order No. 54, 10.12.98.
Fourth Report, Session1997-98, The Work of OFSTED, on an Estimates
Day under Standing Order No. 54, 12.7.99.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 11of the Committee's 24 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† |
|
|
| Access for All? - A Survey of Post-16 Participation‡
| 4 |
35 | 1
| 0 |
1 | 5
| 30 |
| Opportunities for Disabled People‡
| 5 |
70 | 2
| 0 |
2 | 10
| 18 |
| The DfEE's Expenditure Plans‡
| 1 |
4 | 4
| 0 |
0 | 7
| 0 |
| DfEE Funding* | 1
| 7 |
1 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 0
|
| Total | 11
| 116 |
8 | 0
| 3 | 22
| 48 |
*The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this
subject in Session 1998-99; these figures are therefore incomplete
‡The Committee took oral
evidence and received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98;
these figures are therefore incomplete
|
