Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

18. Health

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 34 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Hinchliffe, Mr David (Chairman)
33
Amess, Mr David
26
Austin, Mr John
25
Brand, Dr Peter
23
Burns, Mr Simon (added, 5 July 199)
6
Drown, Julia
28
Gunnell, Mr John
30
Keen, Ann (discharged, 1 February 1999)
3
Lewis, Mr Ivan (added, 1 February 1999)
14
Stoate, Dr Howard
26
Syms, Mr Robert
6
Walter, Mr Robert (discharged, 5 July 1999)
15
Wise, Audrey
31

Overall attendance:
71.1%
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18%

Staff
Committee Clerk: Dr John Benger, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr John Whatley, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Miss Suzanne O'Leary (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Mr Frank McShane, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Alexandra Richards, Secretary (Band C).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Judith Allsop, Dr David Armstrong, Mr Séan Boyle, Dr Graham Buckley, Dr Henry Burns, Dr Janine Collins, Professor Joe Collier, Miss Lois Crooke, Mr Bob Dredge, Professor Andrew Grubb, Mr Richard Harbord, Professor Martin Jarvis, Ms Monica Kerr, Ms Patricia Oakley, Professor Sir Richard Peto, Professor Allyson Pollock, Dr Helen Pringle, Mr Chris Vellenoweth, Professor Alan Walker and Professor Gerald Wistow.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
C        abinet Ministers 4
        Other Ministers (of which 1 was by a Member of the House of Lords). 6
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Department of Health 26
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 10
        comprising: Hereford Health Authority 3
        Norfolk & Norwich Health Care NHS Trust 5
        Norfolk Health Authority 2
    Appearances by other witnesses 96

Overseas Visits

DateDestination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
16-18.3.99
Denmark
7
2
Inquiry into Long Term Care of the Elderly
£8,686.18


UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
30.11.99-1.12.99
Darlington and Birmingham
6
2
Inquiry into Future NHS Staffing Requirements
£2,402.29
8.12.99
Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel
8
3
Inquiry into Future NHS Staffing Requirements
£296.10
1-2.3.99
York
6
4A
Inquiry into Long Term Care of the Elderly; Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
£1,014.45
28.4.99
Victoria Station Medicentre and the Wellington Hospital, London
5
4A
Inquiry intoRegulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
£258.50
5.5.99
Harley Street Clinics and the Highgate Private Hospital
5
5A
Inquiry into Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
£229.71
21-22.6.99
Wakefield and Northallerton
4
3
Inquiry into Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
£2,170.25


A Includes specialist advisers

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: The Relationship between Health and Social Services
74-I
13.1.99
34
£8.00
Received 14.4.99Cm 4320
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Relationship between Health and Social Services
74-II
21.1.99
431
£31.00
Not required
Second Report: Primary Care Groups
153
3.2.99
9
£2.90
Received 18.10.99Cm 4468
Third Report: Future NHS Staffing Requirements
38-1
3.3.99
14
£8.80
Received 22.6.99Cm 4379
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Future NHS Staffing Requirements
38-II
3.3.99
355
£26.20
Not required
Fourth Report: The Long Term Care of the Elderly
318
11.5.99
17
£6.50
Received 15.7.99Cm 4414
Fifth Report: The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
281-I
21.7.99
63
£10.60
Awaiting reply
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
281-II
21.7.99
467
£33.50
Not required
Sixth Report: Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
549-I
23.11.99
54
£9.80
Awaiting reply
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
549-II
23.11.99
322
£25.00
Not required
Minutes of Evidence without a Report:National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
221-i
10.3.99
17
£4.75
Not required
Public Expenditure 1999
469-i
5.7.99
24
£6.20
Not required
Public Expenditure 1999
469-ii
13.8.99
27
£7.00
Not required
Public Expenditure 1999
469-iii
3.9.99
13
£4.00
Not required
Memorandum:Public Expenditure on Health and Social Services 1999
626
18.10.99
219
£20.50
Not required


Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
Reply to the Committee's Third Report: The Welfare of Former British Child Migrants, published as Cm 4182 (14.12.97).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 4.3.99, as HC1166, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC904, Session 1998-99.
Divisions

Date
Subject
12.7.99One, on an amendment proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on the Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare.

Debates
The following Report was the subject of a debate in the House:

Third Report, Session 1997-98, The Welfare of Former British Child Migrants, on a Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4), 19.5.99.  

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 34 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 Relationship between Health and Social Services‡
0
14
1
0
1
48
76
Primary Care Groups‡
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Future NHS Staffing Requirements‡‡
5
22
7
0
9
86
21
The Long Term Care of the Elderly
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare
7
154
3
0
4
103
47
Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and outcomes in Medical Care
5
305
3
1
3
41
249
Department of Health Expenditure 1999
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
The Availability and Price of Generic Drugs to the NHS*
1
23
2
0
3
0
0
Total
23
519
17
 1
20
279
393

‡  The Committee took oral evidence and received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete
‡‡  The Committee received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete
*    The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1998-99; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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