Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

21. International Development

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 45 meetings. This included 5 meetings held concurrently with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).



Members
Meetings
attended

Wells, Mr Bowen (Chairman)
37
Canavan, Mr Dennis (discharged 1.2.99)
3
Clwyd, Ann
41(including 5 CM)
Follett, Mrs Barbara
21
Grant, Mr Bernie
5
Khabra, Mr Piara S
27 (including 2 CM)
King, Ms Oona
27
Kingham, Mrs Tess
27 (including 1 CM)
Jones, Mr Nigel (added 1.11.99)
3
Robathan, Mr Andrew
30
Rowe, Mr Andrew
30 (including 3 CM)
Tonge, Dr Jenny (discharged 1.11.99)
27 (including 3 CM)
Worthington, Mr Tony (added 1.2.99)
32 (including 1 CM)

Overall attendance:
62.6%
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18%

Staff

Committee Clerk: Mr Yusef Azad, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 5).
Second Clerk: Janet Hughes, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Specialist: Mr William Benson, Committee Specialist (Band B2).
Committee Assistant: Ms Jane Appleton, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Lisette Andrews, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Julie Macgregor, Professor David Wheeler.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 8
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
    Department for International Development 22
    other departments 11
        comprising: Foreign and Commonwealth Office 6
    HM Treasury4
    Department of Trade and Industry 1
    public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 5
        comprising: Bank of England (a public corporation within the responsibility of the
    Chancellor of the Exchequer) 1
        British Council (an executive non-departmental public body of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) 1
        Commonwealth Development Corporation 2
        National Criminal Intelligence Service (a public body within the responsibility of the Secretary of State for the Home Department) 1
    Appearances by other witnesses 40

Overseas Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
17-18.3.99Bonn
1*
0
Meeting with chairmen of parliamentary committees of EU member states
£520.49
20.2-6.3.99India, Bangladesh and Pakistan
9
2
Inquiry into Women and Development
£48,030.54
25-29.4.99Albania and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
8
2
Inquiry into Kosovo: The Humanitarian Crisis
£13,947.38(estimated outturn)
31.5-1.6.99Bonn
1*
1
Meeting with chairmen of parliamentary committees of EU member states
£1,137.68
19-20.10.99Helsinki
1*
1
Meeting with chairmen of parliamentary committees of EU member states
£1,714.59

*Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
2-3.12.98Brussels
5
3
Inquiry into The Future of The EC Development Budget
£3,747.45


UK Visits
None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: The Future of the EC Development Budget
44
29.01.99
101
£17.00
Received 14.4.99: published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
Second Report: The Provisions of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]
212
16.04.99
61
£10.60
Received 25.6.99: published as Third Special Report , Session 1998-99
Third Report: Kosovo: The Humanitarian Crisis
422
15.05.99
86
£12.50
Received 26.7.99: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Fourth Report: Debt and the Cologne G8 Summit
470
11.06.99
90
£12.50
Received 27.10.99: publication awaited
Fifth Report: Department for International Development: 1999 Departmental Report
567
27.07.99
62
£10.60
Received 22.9.99: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Sixth Report: Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
55-I
04.08.99
75
£11.50
Received 15.10.99: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Sixth Report: Minutes of Evidence and Appendices Relating to the Report
55-II
04.08.99
342
£25.20
not applicable
Seventh Report: Women and Development
160
25.11.99
71
£10.60
reply awaited
Seventh Report: Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
160-II
25.11.99
277
£22.00
not applicable
First Special Report: Government Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: The Future of the EC Development Budget
391
05.05.99
11
£2.80
not applicable
Second Special Report: Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls
540
30.06.99
104
£13.60
not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: The Provisions of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]
604
09.07.99
18
£4.75
not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Third Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99, Kosovo: The Humanitarian Crisis
795
05.08.99
17
£4.75
not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: Department for International Development: 1999 Annual Report
839
28.10.99
11
£3.40
not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
840
28.10.99
27
£6.20
not applicable


Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 5.1.99 as HC 1169, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as
HC 907, Session 1998-99.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:

    Third Report, Session 1998-99, Kosovo: The Humanitarian Crisis, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (Kosovo), 18.5.99.

    Second Report, 1998-99, The Provisions of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords], and Eighth Report, 1997-98, The Future of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, on the Second Reading of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords], 24.5.99.

    First Report, 1998-99, The Future of the EC Development Budget, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (European Union), 25.5.99.

    Fourth Report, 1998-99, Debt Relief and the Cologne G8 Summit, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (Cologne Summit and Third World Debt), 16.6.99.

    Third Report, 1998-99, Kosovo: the Humanitarian Crisis, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (Kosovo), 17.6.99.

The following Minutes of Evidence were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:

    Minutes of Evidence, 13 April 1999, HC 422, on Humanitarian and Economic Effects of the Kosovo Crisis on Neighbouring States, 5.5.99.

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 25 of the Committee's 45 meetings. On two of these occasions evidence was taken 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 Future of the EC Development Budget
4
7
4
0
0
15
0
The Provisions of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill [Lords]
1
9
1
0
1
9
0
Kosovo: The Humanitarian Crisis
2
16
2
0
0
16
0
Debt and the Cologne G8 Summit
1
11
4
0
0
10
 0
Department for International Development: 1999 Departmental Report
1
3
3
0
0
3
0
Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
9
13
6
0
0
49
0
Women and Development
7
46
4
0
1
46
0
First and Second Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls*
2
30
15
0
0
13
0
The Future of Sanctions*
7
24
4
0
1
0
0
IMF/World Bank*
2
6
1
0
0
0
0
The Implementation of Resource Accounting and Budgeting in DFID*
1
4
4
0
0
0
0
The Role of the ECGD*
0
21
0
0
0
0
0
Total
37
190
48
0
3
161
0

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


 
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