Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

16. Draft Food Standards Bill

[Extract from the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, 8 February 1999: "Ordered, That a select committee of thirteen Members be appointed to report on the draft bill on the Food Standards Agency (Cm. 4949)."]

The Committee was nominated on 8 February 1999.

It had 13 Members and held 10 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Barron, Mr Kevin (Chairman)
10
Brand, Dr Peter
9
Curry, Mr David
6
Jones, Mr Martyn
4
Keeble, Ms Sally
9
Ladyman, Dr Stephen
8
Moonie, Dr Lewis
8
Organ, Ms Diana
8
Paterson, Mr Owen
9
Smyth, Rev Martin
8
Stoate, Dr Howard
7
Walter, Mr Robert
8
Wise, Audrey
9

Overall attendance:
79.2 %
Number of Members added:
0
Number of Members discharged:
0
Turnover of membership during the Session:
Nil

Staff
Committee Clerks: Dr John Benger, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) and Mr Mike Hennessy, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Assistant: Mrs Pamela Fisher, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Julie Storey, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Ian Jones, Professor Tim Lang and Dr Mike Stringer.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Ministers 4
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        executive agencies 2
            comprising: Rowett Research Institute 2
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 3
            comprising: Health Education Authority 1
            Health Education Board, Scotland 1
            Health Promotion Wales 1
    Appearances by other witnesses 34


A total of 13 officials from the inter-Departmental Joint Food Safety and Standards Group also attended meetings of the Committee.

Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits
None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
Draft Food Standards Bill
276-I
31.3.99
40
£8.00
Cm 4377, 15.6.99
Draft Food Standards Bill: Minutes of Evidence
276-II
12.4.99
170
£18
Not applicable
Draft Food Standards Bill: Memoranda of Evidence
276-III
12.4.99
135
£15.90
Not applicable


Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee will be published as HC 908, Session 1998-99.

Divisions
None.

Debates
None.

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 8 of the Committee's 10 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  
  
Food Standards draft Bill
7
44+
1
0
2
44
0

+ The Committee also received copies of 266 papers submitted to the Joint Food Safety and Standards Group in response to the consultation process on the draft Bill.


 
previous page contents next page

House of Commons home page Parliament home page House of Lords home page search page enquiries

© Parliamentary copyright 1999
Prepared 21 December 1999