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.
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Members | Meetings
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| attended
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Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth (Chairman) | 31
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Bennett, Mr Andrew | 30
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Brake, Mr Tom* | 5
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Donohoe, Mr Brian | 28
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Forsythe, Mr Clifford | 31
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Gorman Mrs Teresa (added 03.02.99) | 15
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Gray, Mr James | 18
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Laing, Mrs Eleanor (discharged 05.07.99) |
0 |
McIntosh Miss Anne (added 21.07.99) | 6
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O'Brien, Mr Bill | 26
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Olner, Mr Bill | 17
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Pickles, Mr Eric (discharged 30.11.98) |
0 |
Stevenson, Mr George | 28
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Stringer, Mr Graham | 30
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* A member of the Sub-committee only for the inquiry into the Railways Bill.
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Overall attendance: | 75.3 %
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Number of Members added: | 2
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Number of Members discharged: | 2
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Turnover of membership during the Session: |
18 % |
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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:
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Number of appearances by:
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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:
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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
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16.12.98 | One, on an amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the Future of National Air Traffic Services.
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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
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| | 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
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Total | 26
| 254 |
19 | 1
| 4 |
244 | 10
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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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