Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

12. Environmental Audit

The Committee was nominated on 12 November 1997.
It had 16 Members and held 44 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Horam, Mr John (Chairman)
44
Baker, Mr Norman
16
Blizzard, Mr Bob
5
Brinton, Mrs Helen
22
Dafis, Mr Cynog
16
Gerrard, Mr Neil (added 14.1.99)
19
Grieve, Mr Dominic
31
Iddon, Dr Brian
37
Loughton, Mr Tim
22
Meacher, Mr. Michael†
6
Robertson, Mr Laurence
23
Savidge, Mr Malcolm
35
Shaw, Mr Jonathan R
16
Thomas, Mr Gareth R
18
Truswell, Mr Paul
14
Walley, Joan
34

†The Minister for the Environment is an ex officio member of the Committee.
Overall attendance:
50.9%
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
0
Turnover of membership during the Session:
Nil

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Fergus Reid, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialists: Ms Jill Goldsmith (seconded from the National Audit Office) (Grade 8) (until 11 October 1999) Mr Eric Lewis (seconded from the National Audit Office) (Grade 7) (from 6 September 1999); Miss Emma Downing (seconded from the Library) (Band A3 ) (from 5 October 1999).
Committee Assistant: Miss Elisabeth Partridge, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Mrs Ann Williams, Secretary (Band C) (until 19.3.98); Mrs Jane Cooper, Secretary (from (23.3.98)).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Paul Ekins, Mr Chris Hewett, Mr Derek Osborn, Ms Julie Hill, Mr Alistair Fulton, Professor Gerald Manners, Mr Alister Scott, Mr Duncan Brack and Mr David Wilkinson.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 3
        Other Ministers 14
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Government departments 30
            comprising:
                Department for Culture, Media and Sport 2
                Department of the Environment, Transport & the Regions 12
                Export Credits Guarantee Department 3
                Department for International Development 2
                Department of Trade and Industry 3
                Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1
                Home Office 3
                Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1
                Ministry of Defence 3
    Executive agencies 3
        HM Prison Service 3
    Public bodies11
        comprising:
            English Nature 2
            Environment Agency 3
            Council for the Central Laboratories Research Council 3
            OFFER/OFGAS 2
    Members of Parliament (House of Lords) 1
    Appearances by other witnesses 30

Overseas Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
25-27.1.99
Denmark & Germany
8
2
Inquiry into Energy Efficiency
£13,778.54
29.4.99
Bonn
1*
1
European Parliamentary Environmental Conference
£1,230.05

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

DateDestination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
13-14.7.99European Commission, Brussels
7
2
Meetings with European Commission Officials
£8,692.05


UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
29.3.98
County Hall, Nottingham
8
4B
Inquiry into Energy Efficiency
£1,112.50


B Includes 1 shorthand writer

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: the Multilateral Agreement on Investment
58
8.2.99
133
£20.50
Received 5.5.99.*
Second Report: Climate Change: Government Response and Follow-Up
88
12.2.99
36
£8.00
Not applicable
Third Report: The Comprehensive Spending Review and Public Service Agreements
92
16.2.99
83
£11.50
Received 26.5.99*
Fourth Report: The Pre-Budget Report 1998
93
23.2.99
90
£12.50
Received 13.5.99 Published as HC 326
Fifth Report: Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment: Coordination of Government Policy
384
13.5.99
172
22.80
Awaited
Sixth Report: The Greening Government Initiative 1999
426
1.7.99
400
£43.30
Awaited
Seventh Report: Energy Efficiency
426
22.7.99
401
£37.00
Received 17.9.99*
Eighth Report: The Budget 1999: Environmental Implications
326
27.7.99
114
£17.00
Received 4.11.99*

* Reported to the House and placed in the Library; awaiting formal publication.

Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
Reply to the Committee's Fourth Report of 1997-98: Climate Change: UK Emission Reduction Targets and Audit Arrangements—was published in HC 88 (12.2.99).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 11.1.99 as HC 1163, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 900, Session 1998-99.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was the subject of a debate in the House:

    Second Report, Session 1997-98, The Greening Government Initiative, on an Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 17.3.99.  

The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

    Fourth Report, Session 1998-99, the Pre-Budget Report 1998, debate on Budget Resolutions, 9.3.99.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 37 of the Committee's 42 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly 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 Multilateral Agreement on Investment
0
16
6
0
1
16
0
Climate Change: Government Response and Follow-Up
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
The Comprehensive Spending Review and Public Service Agreements
1
11
5
0
0
11
0
The Pre-Budget Report 1998
2
18
1
0
0
18
0
GMOs and the Environment: Coordination of Government Policy
5
21
2
0
1
21
0
The Greening Government Initiative 1999
5
49
25
5
8
49
0
Energy Efficiency
9
43
5
1
2
43
0
The Budget 1999
3
15
1
0
0
15
0
EU Environmental Policy Integration*
3
8
1
0
0
0
0
A sustainable Millennium Round (WTO)*
3
7
1
0
2
0
0
UK Sustainable Development Strategy*
2
23
0
0
1
0
0
Total
34
211
47
6
15
173
0

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments
*The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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