Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

11A. Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs: Environment Sub-Committee

The Sub-committee was nominated on 15 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 35 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Bennett, Mr Andrew (Chairman)
34
Brake, Mr Tom
19
Butler, Christine
29
Cummings, Mr John
23
Donohoe, Mr Brian+
19
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
24
Ellman, Mrs Louise
32
Gray, Mr James
19
O'Brien, Mr Bill*
5
Olner, Mr Bill
27
Randall, Mr John
22
Whitehead, Dr Alan
27

+ Not a member of the Sub-committee for the inquiry into Regional Development Agencies
* A member of the Sub-committee only for the inquiry into Regional Development Agencies
Overall attendance:
72.7 %
Number of Members added:
0
Number of Members discharged:
0
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %


Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr David Harrison, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Huw Yardley, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Specialists: Ms Katie Smith (Band B1), Dr David Taylor (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Miss Jacqueline Recardo, Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
Secretary: Mrs Susan Morrison, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Alan Barber, Mr Duncan Brack, Mr James Cameron, Dr Raymond Connolly, Mr Tim Cooper, Dr Janet Dwyer, Ms Rita Hale, Professor Alan Harding, Professor John Harrington, Mr David Lambert, Professor Philip Lowe, Professor Richard Macrory, Professor Michael Parkinson, Mr Graham Reid, Mr David Slater, Mr Tony Travers, Mr Stephen Tromans, Dr Gene Wilson and Mr Roger Wood.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Ministers
12
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
27
        other departments
10
            comprising:Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2
            Department for Culture, Media and Sport
1
            Department for Education and Employment
1
            Department for International Development
3
            Department of Trade and Industry
3
            public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
34
            comprising:Audit Commission
1
            Countryside Agency
3
            Countryside Commission
1
            East of England Regional Development Agency
2
            English Heritage
3
            English Nature
2
            English Partnerships
3
            Heritage Lottery Fund
4
            National Consumer Council
2
            North East Regional Development Agency
2
            North West Regional Development Agency
2
            Rural Development Commission
2
            South West Regional Development Agency
2
            West Midlands Regional Development Agency
2
            Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Development Agency
3
    Members of Parliament
1
    Appearances by other witnesses
160

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
14-23.4.99
Brazil and Venezuela
7
2
Inquiry into Multilateral Environmental Agreements
£49,005.30

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
22-23.2.99
Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham
8
7D
Inquiry into Regional Development Agencies
£4,888.20
25.2.99
Chelmsford, Essex
4
4AB
Inquiry into Regional Development Agencies
£284.02
22.6.99Manchester
4
6BC
Inquiry into Town and Country Parks
£2,481.35


AIncludes 1 specialist adviser
BIncludes 1 shorthand writer
CIncludes 2 specialist advisers
DIncludes 2 specialist advisers and 2 shorthand writers

Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No.(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
Memoranda of Evidence: The Operation of the Landfill Tax
150-II
2.2.99
177
£18.00
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: Regional Development Agencies
232-II
15.2.99
125
£14.70
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Consumer Products
149-II
18.2.99
68
£10.60
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence:Multilateral Environmental Agreements
307-II
26.4.99
45
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Local Government Finance
78-II
11.5.99
114
£14.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Regional Development Agencies
232-III
24.5.99
190
£19.50
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: Town and Country Parks
477-II
8.6.99
161
£17.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Consumer Products
149-III
9.6.99
55
£9.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Operation of the Landfill Tax
150-III
13.7.99
79
£11.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Multilateral Environmental Agreements
307-III
4.8.99
142
£15.90
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Potential Risk of Fire Spread in Buildings via External Cladding Systems
741-i
17.8.99
51
£9.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Role and Work of OFWAT
792-i
28.9.99
16
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Town and Country Parks
477-III
4.11.99
133
£15.90
Not applicable

Divisions

Date
Subject
16.3.99Seven, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Local Government Finance.
16.3.99One, on Question, That the Report be the Second Report of the Sub-committee to the Committee.


Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 34 of the Sub-committee's 35 meetings. On one of these occasions evidence was taken 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†     
The Countryside Agency
1
21
1
0
2
20
0
Local Government Finance ‡
2
70
2
0
4
67
0
Regional Development Agencies
8
54
4
0
7
53
0
Reducing the Environmental Impact of Consumer Products
2
30
2
0
1
29
0
The Operation of the Landfill Tax
3
106
1
0
4
104
1
The Departmental Annual Report 1999 and Expenditure Plans 1999-2002
1
3
3
0
0
3
0
Multilateral Environmental Agreements
6
23
5
0
2
22
1
Town and Country Parks
6
84
2
0
4
84
0
Potential Risk of Buildings via External Cladding Systems *
1
49
1
0
0
22
2
The Role and Work of OFWAT
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
The Work of the Health and Safety Executive*
2
29
1
0
2
26
1
The Environment Agency *
1
79
2
0
6
59
4
Total
34
548
24
0
32
489
9

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments
‡The Sub-committee took oral evidence and received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete
*The Sub-committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1998-99; there figures are therefore incomplete


 
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