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.
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Members | Meetings
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| attended
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Beard, Mr Nigel | 18
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Blackman, Mrs Liz | 16
|
Cable, Dr Vincent | 3
|
Heathcoat-Amory, Mr David | 15
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Kidney, Mr David | 17
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Loughton, Mr Tim | 17
|
Plaskitt, Mr James | 14
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Sheerman, Mr Barry | 15
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| |
Overall attendance: | 79.9%
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Turnover of membership during the Session: |
0 % |
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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 publication | No. of
pages
| Sale price | Government
reply
|
Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill
| 328-I | 29.4.99
| 109 | £13.30
| Made 17.6.99 (see Official Report, column 222)
|
Draft Financial Services and Markets Bill: Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
| 328-II | 14.5.99
| 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
| 465 | 2.6.99
| 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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