Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

11. Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.

It had 17 Members and held 29 meetings.



Members
Meetings
attended

Bennett, Mr Andrew
28
Brake, Mr Tom
19
Butler, Christine
22
Cummings, Mr John
7
Donohoe, Mr Brian
24
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
26
Ellman, Mrs Louise
23
Forsythe, Mr Clifford
25
Gorman Mrs Teresa (added 30.11.98)
13
Gray, Mr James
22
Laing, Mrs Eleanor (discharged 5.7.99)
0
McIntosh Miss Anne (added 5.7.99)
5
O'Brien, Mr Bill
22
Olner, Mr Bill
23
Pickles, Mr Eric (discharged 30.11.98)
0
Randall, Mr John
12
Stevenson, Mr George
18
Stringer, Mr Graham
26
Whitehead, Dr Alan
22

Overall attendance:
68.4 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
12 %


Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr David Harrison, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Gavin Devine, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Third Clerk: Mr Huw Yardley, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Specialists: Mr Kevin Lee (Band B1), Miss Katie Smith (Band B1), Dr Dave Taylor (Band B1).
Committee Assistants: Miss Frances Allingham, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2), Miss Jacqueline Recardo, Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
Secretaries: Mrs Susan Morrison, Secretary (Band D1), Miss Carolyn Wilson, Secretary (Band D1) (until 30.10.99), Miss Leslie Young, Secretary (Band D1) (from 1.11.99).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Mr Richard Bate, Mr Rob Gifford, Professor Peter Jones, Mr Malcolm Fergusson, Professor Jim Skea and Dr Christine Whitehead.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 1
        Other Ministers 6
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 9
        other departments 8
        comprising:Home Office 1
        Department of Trade and Industry 4
    HM Treasury3
        executive agencies 0
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 5
        comprising:HM Customs and Excise 1
        Board of Inland Revenue 1
        Metropolitan Police 2
        Traffic Director for London 1
    Members of Parliament 0
    Appearances by other witnesses 84

Overseas Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
30.11.98-3.12.98
Netherlands and Belgium
9
4
Inquiry into Integrated Transport and Environment matters
£10,521.64
29-30.4 99Bonn
2*
1*
Meeting of EU Environment Committees
£1,807.54

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
24.3.99
Coventry
 
1*
Conference on Green Flag Awards
£72.00

* 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: Railway Safety
30
9.12.98
171
£18.00
Received 3.3.99: published as First Special Report
Second Report: Millennium Compliance in the Transport Industry
90
22.12.98
43
£8.00
Received 22.3.99: published as Second Special Report
Third Report: The Future of National Air Traffic Services
122
21.1.99
84
£11.50
Received 27.7.99: published as Fourth Special Report
Fifth Report: Regional Eurostar Services
89
26.1.99
79
£11.50
Cm 4314: 6.4.99
Fourth Report: The Countryside Agency
6
28.1.99
83
£11.50
Cm 4359: 1.6.99
Sixth Report: The Maritime and Coastguard Agency
31
15.3.99
107
£13.60
Cm 4359: 16.8.99
Seventh Report: Meeting with European Commission Officials to Discuss Air Transport
272
15.3.99
12
£3.30
Not applicable
Ninth Report: Integrated Transport White Paper
32-I
28.4.99
93
£12.50
Received 12.7.99: published as Third Special Report
Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence: Integrated Transport White Paper
32-II
28.4.99
444
£32.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Integrated Transport White Paper
32-i
22.2.99
51
£9.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Integrated Transport White Paper
32-ii
3.3.99
78
£11.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Integrated Transport White Paper
32-iii
5.3.99
26
£7.00
Not applicable
Eighth Report: Local Government Finance
78-I
11.5.99
37
£8.00
Cm 4402: 13.7.99
Tenth Report: Regional Development Agencies
232-I
25.5.99
29
£6.70
Received 28.7.99: published as Fifth Special Report
Twelfth Report: The Future of the UK Shipping Industry
172
8.6.99
264
£22.00
Cm 4432: 27.7.99
Eleventh Report: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Consumer Products
149-I
9.6.99
26
£6.20
Cm 4435: 25.8.99
Thirteenth Report: The Operation of the Landfill Tax
150-I
14.7.99
30
£7.00
Cm 4461: 26.10.99
Fourteenth Report: Aviation Safety
275
21.7.99
312
£23.00
Cm 4539: 30.11.99
Fifteenth Report: Departmental Annual Report 1999 and Expenditure Plans 1999-2002
440
27.7.99
89
£12.50
Cm 4424: 10.8.99
Sixteenth Report: Multilateral Environmental Agreements
307-I
4.8.99
63
£11.10
Reply awaited
Eighteenth Report: Tendered Bus Services
429
3.8.99
194
£19.50
Cm 4519: 18.11.99
Seventeenth Report: Housing PPG3
490-I
1.9.99
115
£14.70
Reply awaited
Memoranda of Evidence: Housing PPG 3
490-II
16.6.99
81
£15.90
Not applicable
Twentieth Report: Town and Country Parks
477-I
6.11.99
50
£10.20
Reply awaited
Nineteenth Report: Young and Newly Qualified Drivers: Standards and Training
515
8.11.99
158
£17.00
Reply awaited
Twenty-first Report: Railways Bill
827
10.11.99
198
£19.50
Reply awaited
First Special Report: HSC Response to the First Report
352
12.4.99
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Response to the First Report
383
6.5.99
8
£2.25
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Ninth Report
708
13.7.99
27
£6.20
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Third Report
794
29.7.99
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to the Tenth Report
867
3.11.99
16
£4.00
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-II
18.2.99
104
£13.60
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-i
25.3.99
26
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-ii
16.4.99
23
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-iii
24.5.99
35
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-iv
24.5.99
28
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-v
27.5.99
27
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-vi
2.7.99
30
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-vii
2.7.99
9
£3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-viii
8.7.99
28
£7.00
Not applicable
Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence: UK Climate Change Programme
171-ix
8.11.99
23
£6.20
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: Rural White Paper
887
24.11.99
117
£18.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Environmental Impact of Supermarket Competition
841-i, ii and iii
to be published
  
  
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
Reply to the Committee's Thirteenth Report: The Protection of Field Boundaries, published as Cm 2587 (25.1.99); Reply to the Committee's Eighth Report: Regional Air Services, published as Cm 2587 (1.2.99).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published as HC1162, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 899, Session 1998-99.

Divisions

Date
Subject
24 .3.99One, on Question, That the Report be the Eighth Report of the Committee to the House.
31..3.99One, on an amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the Integrated Transport White Paper.
14.7.99One, on Question, That the Report be the Fourteenth Report of the Committee to the House.

Debates

The following Reports were the subjects of debates in the House:

    Ninth Report, Session 1998-99, Integrated Transport White Paper, on an Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 12.7.99.

    Sixth Report, 1998-99, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, on a Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4), 17.3.99.

    Fifth Report, 1998-99, Regional Eurostar Services, on a Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4), 19.5.99.

The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:

    Eleventh Report, Session 1997-98, Implementation of the Best Value Framework, on Second Reading of the Local Government Bill, 12.1.99.

    Seventh Report, Session 1997-98, London Underground, on an Opposition Motion on London Underground, 27 1.99.

    Tenth Report, Session 1997-98, Housing, on an Opposition Motion on Planning and the Green Belt, 3.1.99.

    Ninth Report, Session 1998-99, Integrated Transport White Paper, on an Opposition Motion on Planning and Transport Congestion, 29.6.99.

    Tenth Report, Session 1997-98, Housing, on an Opposition Motion on Planning and Greenfield and Brownfield Sites: The Two Britains, 2.11.99.

    Seventeenth Report, Session 1998-99, Housing: PPG3, on an Opposition motion on Planning and Greenfield and Brownfield Sites: The Two Britains, 2.11.99.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 14 of the Committee's 29 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken wholly or partly 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†  
  
Integrated Transport White Paper‡
3
186
2
 1
4
172
14
UK Climate Change Programme
8
58
4
0
2
58
0
Departmental Annual Report 1999 and Expenditure Plans 1999-2002
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
Housing: PPG 3
3
51
1
0
2
51
0
Environmental Impact of Supermarket Competition
2
27
4
0
1
27
0
Rural White Paper*
0
31
1
0
3
31
0
Total
16
354
13
1
12
340
14

†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 received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1998-98; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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