10. SELECT COMMITTEES
10B. Education and Employment: Employment
Sub-committee
The Sub-committee was appointed on 23 July 1997.
It had 9 Members and held 37 meetings. This included
6 meetings held concurrently with the Social Security Committee
(abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).
|
| Members | Meetings
|
| attended
|
|
| Foster, Mr Derek (Chairman) | 33 (including 5 CM)
|
| Atherton, Candy | 20 (including 5 CM)
|
| Brady, Mr Graham | 22 (including 2 CM)
|
| Cooper, Yvette | 13
|
| Healey, Mr John | 30 (including 5 CM)
|
| Keetch, Mr Paul (discharged, 1.11.99) | 15 (including 1 CM)
|
| Laing, Eleanor | 0
|
| Mallaber, Judy | 31 (including 5 CM)
|
| St. Aubyn, Mr Nick (added, 4.5.99) | 4
|
|
| Overall attendance: | 50.5 %
|
| Number of Members added: | 1
|
| Number of Members discharged: | 1
|
| Turnover of membership during the Session: |
11 % |
|
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Tom Healey, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Eamon Lally, (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Ms Clare Genis, Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2).
Secretary: Ms Pam Morris, Secretary (Band D1).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Robert Bennett, Dr Dan Finn, Dr Jane Pillinger,
Mr Richard Scothorne and Mr Michael Ward.
| Witnesses | |
| Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
| Number of appearances by:
| |
| Cabinet Ministers
| 0 |
| Other Ministers
| 3 |
| Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
| Department for Education and Employment
| 6 |
| other departments
| 3 |
| comprising: Department of Social Security
| 3 |
| executive agencies
| 5 |
| comprising: The Employment Service
| 5 |
| Appearances by other witnesses
| 47 |
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
| Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
| 29.3.88 | Brussels
| 1* |
1 | Conference on Women's Rights for EU Member States' Parliamentary Committees
| £702.46
|
* Travel in a representative capacity
UK Visits
| Date |
Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
| 24--25.5.99
| Huddersfield and Sheffield
| 2 |
1 | Inquiry into the ONE service pilots (Joint visit with the Social Security Committee)
| £558.90
|
Minutes of Evidence
| Title |
HC No.(1998-99)
| Date of
publication
| No. of
pages
| Sale price
| Government
reply
|
| Minutes of Evidence: EU Employment Issues
| 72-i |
23.2.99 |
12 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence: TECs/RDAs and other lifelong learning issues
| 97-i |
4.3.99 |
13 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence: The Employment Consequences of European Economic and Monetary Union
| 547-i |
21.6.99 |
14 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence: The Employment Consequences of European Economic and Monetary Union
| 547-ii
| 24.8.99
| 8 |
£3.40 |
Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence: The Employment Consequences of European Economic and Monetary Union
| 547-iii
| 24.8.99
| 12 |
£4.00 |
Not applicable |
| Minutes of Evidence: The Employment Consequences of European Economic and Monetary Union
| 547-iv
| 24.8.99
| 11 |
£4.00 |
Not applicable |
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 18 of the Committee's 37 meetings.
| 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† |
|
|
| Employment Consequences of EMU
| 4 |
1 | 0
| 0 | 0
| 1 |
0 |
| Performance and Future Role of the Employment Service‡
| 6 |
28 | 4
| 3 |
0 | 59
| 12 |
| The One Service Pilots |
5 | 44
| 3 |
0 | 0
| 42 |
2 |
| Employability and Jobs: Is there a Jobs Gap?*
| 1 |
35 | 3
| 0 |
0 | 1
| 0 |
| Miscellaneous | 2
| 1 |
1 | 0
| 0 |
1 | 0
|
| Total | 18
| 109 |
11 | 3
| 0 |
104 | 14
|
‡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
|
