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
|
22.6.99 | Manchester
| 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
|
16.3.99 | Seven, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Local Government Finance.
|
16.3.99 | One, 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
|