Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

13. European Scrutiny

The Committee was nominated on 17 November 1998.
It had 16 Members and held 33 meetings.



Members
Meetings
attended

Hood, Mr Jimmy (Chairman)
22
Bradshaw, Mr Ben
27
Breed, Mr Colin
20
Brown, Mr Russell (discharged 10.12.98)
0
Casale, Mr Roger
22
Cash, Mr William
24
Connarty, Mr Michael (added 10.12.98)
19
Davies, Mr Quentin (discharged 11.1.99)
0
Dobbin, Mr Jim
25
Ewing, Mrs Margaret
7
Gilroy, Mrs Linda (discharged 10.12.98)
0
Jones, Ms Jennifer
21
Marshall, Mr Jim
20
McKenna, Mrs Rosemary
15
Palmer, Dr Nick (added 10.12.98)
22
Paterson, Mr Owen (added 26.7.99)
4
Rammell, Mr Bill
21
Robertson, Mr Laurence (added 26.7.99)
4
Steen, Mr Anthony
11
Walter, Mr Robert (added 11.1.99) (discharged 26.7.99)
12
Woodward, Mr Shaun (discharged 26.7.99)
5

Overall attendance:
57%
Number of Members added:
5
Number of Members discharged:
5
Turnover of membership during the Session:
31 %

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mrs Elizabeth Flood, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 5).
Second Clerk: Mrs Susan Craig, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Clerk Advisers: Miss Josy Eldred, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr David Griffiths, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mrs Rosemary Melling CBE, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr Clive Wilson, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Legal Advisers: Mr John Vaux, Counsel to the Speaker (European Legislation &c) (Senior Structure Band 5); Miss Cathryn Scott, Assistant Legal Adviser (Band B1) (to 31 January 1999); Miss Kemi Alagbala, Assistant Legal Adviser (Band B1) (from 1 March 1999).
Committee Assistant: Mrs Nicole Mulloy, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2) (until 7.12.98); Miss Karen McClelland, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2) (from 7.12.98); assisted by Mr Ron Wostear, Senior Office Clerk, (Band D1) (until 30.4.99) Mr Darren Hackett, Senior Office Clerk, (Band D1) (from 4.5.99)
Secretary: Mrs Keely Bishop, Secretary (Band D1) (until 30.4.99); Miss Susan Ramsay, Secretary (Band D1); Miss Fiona Mearns, Secretary (Band D1) (from 15.3.99); Miss Ann Johnson, Secretary (Band D1) (from 11.1.99 until 14.6.99); Miss Lisa Vanner, Secretary (Band D1) (until 12.1.99); Mrs Claire Webster, Secretary (Band D1) (from 10.5.99) Mrs Alison Ross, Secretary (Band D1) (from 18.10.99).

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 0
        Other Ministers (of whom 2 were by Members of the House of Lords) 13
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of departments: 19
        comprising: Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food 2
        Cabinet Office 1
        Department for Education and Employment 1
        Foreign and Commonwealth 3
        Home Office 2
        Scottish Office 1
        Trade and Industry 5
        HM Treasury 4
        executive agencies 0
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 0
        HM Services 0
    Members of Parliament 0
    Appearances by other witnesses 0

Overseas Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
22-24.11.98Vienna
3*
1
Nineteenth Conference of European Affairs Committees (COSAC)
£4,553.39
13-15.12.98
Bonn
6
3
Work in preparation for German Presidency of EU
£7,098.47
30.5-1.6.99
Berlin
3*
3
Twentieth Conference of European Affairs Committees (COSAC)
£3,137.82
6-11.6.99
Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
8
3
Work on EU enlargement and work in preparation for the Finnish Presidency of EU
£18,450.00(estimated outturn)
19-20.9.99Finland
1*
1
Working Group of European Affairs Committees
£1,750.23
10-12.10.99
Finland
3*
2
Twenty-first Conference of European Affairs Committees (COSAC)
£4,728.59
2-3.11.99Slovakia
1*
1
To attend meeting of European Integration Committee, Slovakian Parliament
£1,444.47

*travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
1-2.3.99European Institutions, Brussels
8
4
Meetings with European Commission Officials
£7,397.77(estimated outturn)
24-25.3.99European Institutions, Brussels
    
1*
To attend Conference for Freedom, Security and Justice: An Agenda for Europe
£574.60

*travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply*
First Report
34-i
7.12.98
22
£7.00
    
Second Report
34-ii
15.12.98
42
£9.70
    
Third Report
34-iii
23.12.98
34
£8.80
    
Fourth Report
34-iv
23.12.98
31
£8.00
    
Fifth Report
34-v
28.1.99
24
£7.00
    
Sixth Report
34-vi
2.2.99
48
£9.70
    
Seventh Report
34-vii
16.2.99
65
£10.60
    
Eighth Report
34-viii
18.2.99
34
£8.80
    
Ninth Report
34-ix
9.3.99
50
£9.70
    
Tenth Report
34-x
19.3.99
25
£7.00
    
Eleventh Report
34-xi
16.3.99
44
£9.70
    
Twelfth Report
34-xii
26.3.99
59
£10.60
    
Thirteenth Report
34-xiii
31.3.99
39
£8.80
    
Fourteenth Report
34-xiv
31.3.99
31
£8.00
    
Fifteenth Report
34-xv
19.4.99
18
£6.50
    
Sixteenth Report
34-xvi
30.4.99
63
£10.60
    
Seventeenth Report
34-xvii
11.5.99
56
£9.70
    
Eighteenth Report
34-xviii
14.5.99
33
£8.00
    
Nineteenth Report
34-xix
28.5.99
40
£8.00
    
Twentieth Report
34-xx
2.6.99
40
£8.00
    
Twenty-first Report
34-xxi
21.6.99
80
£11.50
    
Twenty-second Report
34-xxii
8.7.99
75
£10.60
    
Twenty-third Report
34-xxiii
9.7.99
51
£9.70
    
Twenty-fourth Report
34-xxiv
20.7.99
64
£10.30
    
Twenty-fifth Report
34-xxv
20.7.99
27
£6.20
    
Twenty-sixth Report
34-xxvi
28.7.99
48
£8.00
    
Twenty-seventh Report
34-xxvii
30.7.99
53
£9.70
    
Twenty-eighth Report
34-xxviii
9.11.99
126
£19.50
    
Twenty-ninth Report
34-xxix
9.11.99
56
£9.70
    
Thirtieth Report
34-xxx
11.11.99
41
£8.80
    
Thirty-first Report
34-xxxi
19.11.99
56
£9.70
    
Minutes of Evidence: 1999 European Community Draft Budget
98
10.12.98
7
£2.80
    
Minutes of Evidence: The Schengen Agreement
430
17.5.99
12
£4.00
    
Minutes of Evidence: Justice and Home Affairs Council 27-28 May 1999
464
19.5.99
10
£3.40
    
Minutes of Evidence: The ECOFIN Council 25 May 1999
589
23.6.99
10
£3.40
    
Minutes of Evidence: Employment Issues
689
7.7.99
13
£4.00
    
Minutes of Evidence: Takeover Bids
766
21.7.99
10
£3.40
    
Minutes of Evidence: The Forthcoming Inter-Governmental Conference
942
  
  
  
  

* The Committee does not require formal Government replies to each Report, but reports Government responses on individual documents throughout the Session.

Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
None.

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 901, Session 1998-99.

Divisions

Date
Subject
23.6.99One, on an amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report.


Debates
None; proceedings take place on documents recommended by the Committee for further consideration, rather than on the Committee's Reports.

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 11 of the Committee's 33 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.


 
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