Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

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

The Sub-committee was nominated on 15 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 32 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth (Chairman)
31
Bennett, Mr Andrew
30
Brake, Mr Tom*
5
Donohoe, Mr Brian
28
Forsythe, Mr Clifford
31
Gorman Mrs Teresa (added 03.02.99)
15
Gray, Mr James
18
Laing, Mrs Eleanor (discharged 05.07.99)
0
McIntosh Miss Anne (added 21.07.99)
6
O'Brien, Mr Bill
26
Olner, Mr Bill
17
Pickles, Mr Eric (discharged 30.11.98)
0
Stevenson, Mr George
28
Stringer, Mr Graham
30

* A member of the Sub-committee only for the inquiry into the Railways Bill.
Overall attendance:
75.3 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18 %


Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Gavin Devine, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Kevin Lee, (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Miss Frances Allingham, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretaries: Miss Carolyn Wilson, Secretary (Band D1)(until 30.10.99), Miss Leslie Young, Secretary (Band D1)(from 01.11.99).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Chris Bolt, Mr Rob Gifford, Mr AWS Holland, Professor James McConville, Mr Laurie Price and Mr Peter Rayner.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 1
        Other Ministers (of which 2 were by Members of the House of Lords) 6
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 31
        other departments 5
        comprising:Ministry of Defence 3
        HM Treasury 2
        executive agencies 4
        comprising:Driving Standards Agency 1
        Maritime and Coastguard Agency 3
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 19
        comprising:Board of Inland Revenue 3
        Central Rail Users Consultative Committee 4
        Health and Safety Executive 3
        Office of Fair Trading 5
        Shadow Strategic Rail Authority 4
    Members of Parliament 1
    Appearances by other witnesses 147

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
26.11.98
Civil Aviation Authority-Safety Regulation Group, Gatwick Airport
4
2
Inquiry into National Air Traffic Services
£180.00
18.5.99
Finnish Embassy
3
1
Meeting with Finnish Parliament Transport Committee
£18.60
9.6.99
Ellesmere Port
  
1*
Inquiry into Tendered Bus Services
£29.30

* 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
Minutes of Evidence: Railway Regulation
585-i
6.8.99
18
£4.75
Not applicable
Memorandum of Evidence: National Air Traffic Services
586
12.8.99
83
£12.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Commission for Integrated Transport
724-i
4.10.99
14
£4.00
Not applicable

Divisions

Date
Subject
16.12.98One, on an amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the Future of National Air Traffic Services.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 26 of the Sub-committee's 32 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†      
Regional Eurostar Services
2
13
1
0
0
11
2
Maritime and Coastguard Agency ‡
1
3
0
0
0
2
1
Future of the UK Shipping Industry
5
56
3
0
2
55
1
Aviation Safety
5
59
8
0
0
57
2
National Air Traffic Services ‡
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
The Departmental Annual Report 1999 and Expenditure Plans 1999-2002
1
1
1
0
0
1
0
Tendered Bus Services
3
44
2
0
1
44
0
Young and Newly Qualified Drivers: Standards and Training
3
31
3
1
0
31
0
Railway Regulation
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Commission for Integrated Transport
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Railways Bill
4
46
0
0
1
42
4
Total
26
254
19
1
4
244
10

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments
‡The Sub-committee took oral evidence and received other memoranda for these inquiries in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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