Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

25. Northern Ireland Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 28 July 1997.

It had 13 Members and held 35 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Brooke, Mr Peter (Chairman)
35
Barnes, Mr Harry
25
Beggs, Mr Roy
33
Donaldson, Mr Jeffrey
29
Grogan, Mr John
21
Hesford, Mr Stephen
15
Hunter, Mr Andrew
20
Livingstone, Mr Ken (discharged, 14.6.99)
8
McCabe, Mr Stephen
26
McGrady, Mr Eddie
14
McWalter, Mr Tony
26
Pound, Mr Stephen (added, 14.6.99)
7
Robinson, Mr Peter
14
Salter, Mr Martin
25

Overall attendance:
65.5%
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
8%

Staff
Committee Clerk: Dr Christopher Ward, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Committee Assistant: Mr Andy Hubner, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Kate Bull (Band D1)(until 11.12.98); Mrs Yvonne Platt (Band D1) (from 12.4.99); Miss Lesley Young (Band D1) (from 13.12.98 until 9.4.99).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Christopher McCrudden, Professor John Surrey, Dr Andrew Coyle and Professor Anthony Bottoms.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 1
        Other Ministers (of which 1 was by a Member of the House of Lords) 5
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
    Northern Ireland Office 3
        other departments
        comprising: Northern Ireland Departments 11
    H.M. Customs & Excise 4
        executive agencies 15
        comprising: Industrial Development Board 2
    Northern Ireland Prison Service 3
    Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
        Northern Ireland Health and Social Services Boards 5
        Fair Employment Commission 4
        Northern Ireland Economic Council 2
        Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights 3
        Sports Council for Northern Ireland 4
        Office of the Electricity Regulator 3
    Members of New Northern Ireland Assembly 1
    Appearances by other witnesses 24


Overseas Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
9-14.5.99
United States
7
2
Operation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989
£40,900.00(estimated outturn)

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
12-13.1.99
Belfast
9
4A
Inquiries intoPublic ExpenditureSpecial Educational Needs and The Operation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Ten Years On
£4,518.00
7-9.2.99
Belfast
11
3A
Evidence sessions:Non-departmental Public Bodies in Northern Ireland (Sports Council for Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Electricity plc
£4,347.00
19-20.4.99
Belfast
9
6B
Inquiry into TheOperation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Ten Years On
£8,389.00
15-16.6.99
Londonderry
8
3A
Evidence session:Public Expenditure Inward Investment in Northern Ireland
£5,785.00
29.7.99Belfast
10
2
Report publication
£2,060.00
3.11.99Belfast
7
2
Visit to Northern Ireland Housing Executive and to disability organisations
£2,900.00(estimated outturn)


AIncludes 1 shorthand writer
BIncludes 2 specialist advisers and 2 shorthand writers

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland: Special Educational Needs
33 & 317
19.4.99
208
£19.50
HC 58725.6.99
Second Report: Electricity Supplies in Northern Ireland: Impact of the 26 December 1998 Storm
227
28.7.99
149
£17.00
HC 92318.11.99
Third Report: Impact in Northern Ireland of Cross-Border Road Fuel Price Differentials
334
28.7.99
129
£15.60
HC 83628.10.99
Fourth Report: The Operation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Ten Years On, Volumes I and II
95-I, II
28.7.99
222
£26.80
HC 83728.10.99
First Special Report: Response of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 1997-98 on the Prison Service in Northern Ireland
299
5.3.99
4
£1.45
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Further Response by the Government to the Committee's Second Report of Session 1997-98, Electoral Malpractice in Northern Ireland
484
28.5.99
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 1998-99, Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland: Special Needs Education
587
25.6.99
12
£3.40
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 1998-99, Impact in Northern Ireland of Cross-Border Road Fuel Price Differentials
836
28.10.99
11
£3.40
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Responses to Committee's Fourth Report of Session 1998-99, The Operation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Ten Years On
837
28.10.99
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Responses to the Committee's Second Report of Session 1998-99, Electricity Supplies in Northern Ireland: Impact of the 26 December 1998 Storm
923
18.11.99
20
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence from the Sports Council for Northern Ireland
226-i
20.5.99
20
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland on Public Expenditure - Inward Investment in Northern Ireland
551-i
25.11.99
22
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence from the Northern Ireland Prison Service
866-i
25.11.99
17
£4.75
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 12.3.99 as HC 1171, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as HC 910, Session 1998-99.

Divisions  
None.

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

    Third Report, Session 1997-98, Composition, Recruitment and Training of the RUC, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No. 10(4), 24.2.99.

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 21 of the Committee's 35 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†
  
  
Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland-Special Needs Education
4*
46
5
-
22
39
7
Electricity Supply in Northern Ireland: Impact of 26.12.98 Storm
2
42
-
-
15
39
3
Impact in Northern Ireland of Cross-Border Road Fuel Price Differentials
4
29
12
-
1
26
3
The Operation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Ten Years On
9
21
2
-
5
17
4
Non-Departmental Bodies in Northern Ireland
1
2
-
-
2
2
-
Northern Ireland Prison Service
1
2
-
2
-
2
-
Current problems relating to the livestock industry in Northern Ireland
1
1
1
-
-
1
-
Public Expenditure- Inward Investment in Northern Ireland
1
3
-
-
3
3
-
Total
23
146
20
2
47
129
17

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments
*The Committee took oral evidence and received memoranda in Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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