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 Treasury | 4
|
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
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
17-18.3.99 | Bonn
| 1* |
0 | Meeting with chairmen of parliamentary committees of EU member states
| £520.49
|
20.2-6.3.99 | India, Bangladesh and Pakistan
| 9 |
2 | Inquiry into Women and Development
| £48,030.54
|
25-29.4.99 | Albania and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
| 8 |
2 | Inquiry into Kosovo: The Humanitarian Crisis
| £13,947.38(estimated outturn)
|
31.5-1.6.99 | Bonn
| 1* |
1 | Meeting with chairmen of parliamentary committees of EU member states
| £1,137.68
|
19-20.10.99 | Helsinki
| 1* |
1 | Meeting with chairmen of parliamentary committees of EU member states
| £1,714.59
|
*Travel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
2-3.12.98 | Brussels
| 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
|