10. SELECT COMMITTEES
10A. Education and Employment: Education
Sub-committee
The Sub-committee was nominated on 23 July 1997.
It had 12 Members and held 41 meetings.
|
| Members | Meetings
|
| attended
|
|
| Wicks, Mr Malcolm (Chairman) | 36
|
| Atkins, Charlotte | 33
|
| Benton, Mr Joe (discharged, 14.6.99) | 0
|
| Davey, Valerie | 36
|
| Flint, Caroline | 26
|
| Foster, Mr Derek | 0
|
| Foster, Mr Don (discharged, 29.3.99) | 13
|
| Hayes, Mr John (added, 8.12.98) | 11
|
| Harris, Dr Evan (added, 2.11.99) | 0
|
| Healey, Mr John (added, 13.7.99 ) | 0
|
| Marsden, Mr Gordon | 35
|
| May, Mrs Theresa (discharged, 7.12.98) |
0 |
| Rammell, Mr Bill (added, 15.6.99) | 6
|
| St Aubyn, Mr Nick | 23
|
| Willis, Mr Phil (added, 30.3.99) | 18
|
|
| Overall attendance: | 48.2 %
|
| Number of Members added: | 5
|
| Number of Members discharged: | 3
|
| Turnover of membership during the Session: |
25 % |
|
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Matthew Hamlyn (Senior Structure Band
2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Robert Rees (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Mr Richard Dawson, Chief Office Clerk (Band
C ).
Secretary: Miss Susan Wakeling, Secretary (Band D1) (until 26
February 1999); Miss Claire Halls (temporary) (from 1 March 1999).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Deborah Eyre.
| Witnesses | |
| Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
| Number of appearances by:
| |
| Cabinet Ministers
| 1 |
| Other Ministers
| 2 |
| Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
| Department for Education and Employment
| 8 |
| other departments
| 9 |
| comprising: Office for Standards in Education
| 7 |
| Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales
| 2 |
| Appearances by other witnesses
| 90 |
Overseas Visits
| Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
| 10-15.10.99
| USA | 7
| 2 |
Inquiries into Standards: Disadvantage and Opportunity: Raising Standards in disadvantaged urban communities; The role of private companies in the management and supply of state education services; and Higher Education
| £ 39,398.00(estimated outturn)
|
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
| Date |
Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
| 12-13.4.99
| Mansfield College, Oxford
| 7 |
3 | Forward planning seminar
| £ 1,327.38
|
| 21.6.99
| Civic Hall, Leeds |
3 | 3A
| Inquiry into The Role of School Governors
| £ 1,084.55
|
| 6.7.99 |
Whitley Park Junior and Infants School, Reading
| 5 |
3A
| Inquiry into School Meals
| £ 303.42
|
| 8.5.99 |
Birmingham | 1*
| 1* |
National Governors' Council conference
| £210.00
|
A Includes 1 shorthand
writer
* Travel in a representative capacity
Minutes of Evidence
| Title |
HC No.(1998-99)
| Date of
publication
| No. of
pages
| Sale price
| Government
reply
|
| Minutes of Evidence: The Green Paper - "Teachers: Meeting the Challenge of Change"
| 350-i |
24.2.99 |
13 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence: Highly Able Children: Follow-up
| 680-i |
5.8.99 |
15 | £4.75
| Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Work of UCAS/Payment of Student Loans
| 824 |
25.10.99 |
27 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 41 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† |
| |
| Highly Able Children‡
| 3 |
13 | 1
| 0 | 0
| 53 |
23 |
| The Work of OFSTED‡
| 9 |
139 | 1
| 1 | 8
| 86 |
152 |
| The Role of School Governors
| 3 |
405 | 2
| 1 | 0
| 61 |
344 |
| Standards - Disadvantage and Opportunity: raising standards in disadvantaged urban communities*
| 1 |
7 | 1
| 0 | 0
| 0 |
0 |
| School Meals* | 1
| 35 |
2 | 0
| 0 | 0
| 0 |
| The Role of Private Companies in the Management and Supply of State Education Services*
| 2 | 11
| 2 | 1
| 1 | 0
| 0 |
| Miscellaneous | 4
| 6 |
2 | 1
| 0 | 6
| 0 |
| Total | 23
| 616 |
11 | 4
| 9 | 206
| 519 |
‡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
|
