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
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
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
|
29.7.99 | Belfast
| 10 |
2 | Report publication
| £2,060.00
|
3.11.99 | Belfast
| 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
|