Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

19. Home Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 33 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Corbett, Mr Robin (Chairman from 19.10.99)
29
Dean, Mrs Janet (added 1.2.99)
29
Fabricant, Mr Michael (added 26.7.99)
3
Hawkins, Mr Nick (discharged 26.7.99)
15
Howarth, Mr Gerald
29
Johnson, Miss Melanie (discharged 1.2.99)
3
Linton, Mr Martin
33
Malins, Mr Humfrey
21
Mullin, Mr Chris (Chairman until 19.10.99)
29
Russell, Bob
25
Singh, Mr Marsha
14
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul
26
Winnick, Mr David
32

Overall attendance:
79.3 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18 %


Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Crispin Poyser, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 5).
Second Clerk: Mr Tom Goldsmith, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (until 6.7.99); Mr Martyn Atkins, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (from 6.7.99).
Committee Assistant: Mr Steve Barrett, Senior Executive Officer (Band B1).
Secretary: Liz Booth, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers (of which one was by a Member of the House of Lords) 4
        Other Ministers 2
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Home Office 12
        Lord Chancellor's Department 1
        other departments 3
        comprising: HM Customs and Excise 3
    executive agencies 4
        comprising: Prison Service Agency 4
    public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 7
        comprising: Commission for Racial Equality 3
        Criminal Cases Review Commission 2
        Police Complaints Authority 2
    Appearances by other witnesses 22

Overseas Visit

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
4-6.11.99
Bari
1*
0
Council of Europe seminar on violence against women
£1196.30

* Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
1.12.98
Ryton Police Training Centre, Coventry
9
3
Inquiry into Police Training and Recruitment
£965.35
14.1.99
Security Service HQ, SW1
8
1
Inquiry into Accountability of the Security Service
Nil
26.1.99
National Crime Squad HQ, SW1
5
2
Briefing
£50.93
 2.2.99Criminal Cases Review Commission, Birmingham
5
2
Inquiry into the Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
£734.55
 27.4.99Hendon Police College
8
2
Inquiry into Police Training and Recruitment
£30.23
 11.5.99Downview Prison
7
2
Inquiry into Drugs and Prisons
£266.20
15.6.99
NACRO, Birmingham and Birmingham Prison
5
2
Inquiry into Drugs and Prisons
£751.05


Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: The Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
106
29.3.99
91
£12.20
Received 16.6.99: published as Third Special Report, Session 1998-99
Second Report: Freemasonry in Public Life
467
25.5.99
42
£8.80
Reply awaited
Third Report: Accountability of the Security Service
291
21.6.99
52
£9.70
Reply awaited
Fourth Report: Police Training and Recruitment
81-I
7.7.99
62
£10.60
Received 18.11.99: not yet published
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Police Training and Recruitment
81-II
7.7.99
427
£29.90
Not applicable
Fifth Report: Drugs and Prisons
363-I
22.11.99
67
£10.60
Reply awaited
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Drugs and Prisons
363-II
22.11.99
254
£20.50
Not applicable
First Special Report: Observations on the Second Report, Session 1997-98 (Confidentiality of Police Settlements of Civil Claims)
80
23.12.98
4
£1.45
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Reply to the Fourth Report, Session 1997-98 (Electoral Law and Administration)
137
21.1.99
3
£1.45
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Reply to the First Report, Session 1998-99
569
2.7.99
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Further Government Observations on the Fourth Report, Session 1997-98 (Electoral Law and Administration)
856
8.11.99
12
£3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: (i) Police Training and Recruitment (ii) The Work of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary
83-i
25.1.99
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: (i) The Work of the UK Anti-Drugs Co-ordinator (ii) Drugs and Prisons
363-i
18.5.99
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: (i) Police Training and Recruitment (ii) Delays in the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (iii) Accountability of the Security Service (Home Secretary)
392-i
25.5.99
20
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of HM Customs: Matters relating to Crime
478-i
19.7.99
25
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Home Office Annual Report
653-i
24.8.99
45
£8.80
Not applicable


Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 22.1.99 as HC 1167, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 905, Session 1998-99.

Divisions

Date
Subject
19.5.99Four, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Freemasonry in Public Life.
14.6.99Five, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the Accountability of the Security Service.
28.6.99Eight, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Police Training and Recruitment.

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

Third Report, 1997-98, Alternatives to Prison Sentences, on an Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 10.12.98.  

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 18 of the Committee's 33 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 Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
2
13
1
0
4
13
0
Freemasonry in Public Life
1
8
1
0
0
4
4
Accountability of the Security Service
3
3
1
0
0
3
0
Police Training and Recruitment
6
41
3
0
6
28
13
Drugs and Prisons
 6
 43
 2
3
1
 23
 20
Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder*
  
15
1
  
  
  
  
Controls over Firearms*
  
152
1
  
1
  
  
Miscellaneous
 4
 7
 6
  
  
 7
 0
Total
 22‡
282
16
 3
12
78
 37

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments

*The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1998-99; these figures are therefore incomplete

‡Some evidence sessions covered more than one inquiry


 
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