Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

24. Modernisation of the House of Commons

The Committee was nominated on 4 June 1998.
It had 15 Members and held 26 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

*Beckett, Mrs Margaret (Chairman)
26
Caplin, Mr Ivor
23
Drew, Mr David
22
Emery, Sir Peter
17
Fitzsimons, Lorna (added, 17.4.99)
10
Jackson, Ms Helen
23
Pike, Mr Peter L
24
Prentice, Mr Gordon (added, 1.2.99)
16
Shepherd, Mr Richard
19
Soley, Mr Clive
19
Squire, Ms Rachel (discharged, 1.2.99)
3
Starkey, Dr Phyllis (discharged, 17.4.99)
14
Stunell, Mr Andrew
22
Twigg, Mr Stephen
19
Tyler, Mr Paul
23
Winterton, Mr Nicholas
21
Young, Sir George
26

* held a Ministerial post while being a member of the Committee.
Overall attendance:
83.8%
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
13%

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr C B Winnifrith CB, Clerk of Committees (Senior Structure Band 6).
Second Clerk: Mr A Sandall, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 3).
Committee Assistant: Miss Nerys Welfoot, Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
Secretary: Miss Katie Ferries, Secretary (Band D1) (until 30 April 1999); Miss Louise Sargent, Secretary (Band
D1)(from 5 May 1999).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Members of Parliament (of which 1 was by a Member of the House of Lords) 2
    Appearances by other witnesses: 4

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
First Report: The Parliamentary Calendar: Initial Proposals
60
7.12.98
55
£9.70
Not applicable
Second Report: Sittings in Westminster Hall
194
13.4.99
87
£12.50
Not applicable
Third Report: Thursday Sittings
719
19.7.99
14
£4.30
Not applicable
First Special Report: Work of the Committee: Second Progress Report
865
1.11.99
15
£4.00
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
None.

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 16.12.98 as HC 1170, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 909, Session 1998-99.

Divisions

Date
Subject
24.3.99Eleven, on consideration of the Chairman's draft Report on Sittings of the House in Westminster Hall.

Debates
First Report, Session 1998-99, Parliamentary Calendar: Initial Proposals, 16.12.98
Second Report, Session 1998-99, Sittings of the House in Westminster Hall, 24.5.99

The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:
Third Report, Session 1998-99, Thursday Sittings, 25.10.99

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 3 of the Committee's 26 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
  
  
Sittings in Westminster Hall
3
22
0
0
0
11
0
Regional Standing Committee
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
The Parliamentary Calendar*
0
0*
0
0
0
7
0
Thursday Sittings
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Format of Bills and Acts
0
7
0
0
0
0
0
Other
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
Total
3
38
2
0
0
19
0

*The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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