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 bodies | 11
|
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
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
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
Date | Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose | Cost
|
13-14.7.99 | European 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 Arrangementswas
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
|