Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

15. Joint Committee on Financial Services and Markets

The Committee was nominated on 26 February 1999 with a requirement to report by 30 April 1999. On 27 April the Committee was given a further instruction, namely to report by 27 May 1999 in respect of Parts V, VI and XII of the draft Bill in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights.

It had 8 Commons Members and held 18 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Beard, Mr Nigel
18
Blackman, Mrs Liz
16
Cable, Dr Vincent
3
Heathcoat-Amory, Mr David
15
Kidney, Mr David
17
Loughton, Mr Tim
17
Plaskitt, Mr James
14
Sheerman, Mr Barry
15
.
Overall attendance:
79.9%
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mrs Jacqy Sharpe, Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 3).
Secretary: Mrs Ann Williams, Secretary (Band C) (until 9.4.99); Miss Joanne Crowder, Secretary (Band C) (from 13.4.99).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Eilís Ferran, Professor David Llewellyn and Professor Alan Page.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Ministers 2
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        HM Treasury 11
    Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 16
        comprising: Financial Services Authority 14
        National Consumer Council 2
    Members of the House of Lords 3
    Appearances by other witnesses 34

Overseas Visits

Not applicable.

Visits to European Institutions

Not applicable.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
11.3.99
London
5
2
Financial Services Authority Conference on tackling market abuse followed by briefing at FSA headquarters
Nil

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of publicationNo. of
pages
Sale priceGovernment
reply
Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill 328-I29.4.99 109£13.30 Made 17.6.99 (see Official Report, column 222)
Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill: Minutes of Evidence and Appendices 328-II14.5.99 264£21.90 Not applicable
Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill: Parts V, VI and XII in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights 4652.6.99 27£8.60 Made 17.6.99 (see Official Report, column 222)

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published with the Committee's Reports, HC328-I and HC465.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:
First Report, Session 1998-99, Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill, and Second Report, Session 1998-99, Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill: Parts V, VI and XII in relation to the European Convention on Human Rights, on second reading of the Financial Services and Markets Bill, 28.6.99.  

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 8 of the Committee's 18 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†     
Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill
8
111
5
0
8
78
 14

The Committee also received copies of 182 papers submitted to HM Treasury in response to the consultation process on the draft Financial Services and Markets Bill.


 
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