10. SELECT COMMITTEES
27. Procedure
The Committee was nominated on 31 July 1997.
It had 14 Members and held 20 meetings.
Members
| Meetings |
| attended
|
|
Winterton, Mr Nicholas (Chairman) | 19
|
Beresford, Sir Paul | 10
|
Burgon, Mr Colin (added 9.2.99) | 6
|
Darvill, Mr Keith | 15
|
Davey, Mr Edward | 6
|
Drew, Mr David | 15
|
Efford, Mr Clive | 12
|
Fitzsimons, Lorna | 7
|
Gardiner, Mr Barry | 13
|
Griffiths, Mr Nigel (added, 16.4.99) | 9
|
Illsley, Mr Eric | 7
|
McCafferty, Chris | 0
|
Southworth, Helen (discharged, 9.2.99) |
0 |
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul (discharged, 16.4.99) |
1 |
Stunell, Mr Andrew | 16
|
Syms, Mr Robert | 12
|
|
Overall attendance: | 52.9%
|
Number of Members added: | 2
|
Number of Members discharged: | 2
|
Turnover of membership during the Session: |
14.3% |
|
Staff
Committee Clerk: Miss E C Samson, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior
Structure Band 5).
Second Clerk: Mr Steven Mark, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
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 4 May 1999).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Not applicable.
Witnesses | |
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Ministers
| 1 |
Members of Parliament
| 16 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 10 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
28.6.99
| Spain:Madrid, Toledo, Bilbao,Vittoria
| 5 |
2 | Inquiry into the Procedural Consequences of Devolution
| £6,378.23(estimated outturn)
|
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: Procedural Consequences of Devolution: First Interim Report
| 148 |
18.1.99 |
7 | £2.55
| Received 15.10.99:published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
Second Report: Procedural Consequences of Devolution: Second Interim Report
| 376 |
15.4.99 |
5 | £2.00
| Received 15.10.99:published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
Third Report: Names Added to Early Day Motions
| 466 |
24.5.99 |
6 | £2.55
| Not required |
Fourth Report: The Procedural Consequences of Devolution
| 185 |
24.5.99 |
171 | £19.50
| Received 15.10.99: published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
|
Fifth Report: Ministerial Statements on Fridays
| 588 |
12.7.99 |
9 | £3.10
| Not required. |
Sixth Report: Procedure for Debate on the Government's Expenditure Plans
| 295 |
26.7.99 |
119 | £14.70
| |
First Special Report: Procedural Consequences of Devolution: Government Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee
| 814 |
20.10.99 |
9 | £3.40
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98
were published on 16.12.98 as HC 1172, Session 1997-98. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published
as HC 911, Session 1998-99.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Report was the subject of debate in the House:
Fourth Report, The Procedural Consequences of Devolution,
was the subject of debate on a take note Motion on 21.10.99.
The same Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant
to the debate on the Modernisation of the House of Commons Report
on Sittings of the House in Westminster Hall on 24.5.99.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 8 of the Committee's 20 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
|
|
|
Financial Procedure
| 1
| 6* |
5 | 0
| 0 |
22 | 0
|
The Procedural Consequences of Devolution*
| 7 |
24* | 2
| 0 |
0 | 40
| 0 |
Names Added to Early Day Motions
| 0 |
1 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 1
| 0 |
Statements on Private Members' Fridays
| 0 |
1 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 1
| 0 |
Delegated Legislation |
1 | 3
| 0 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
0 |
Miscellaneous | 0
| 5 |
1 | 0
| 0 |
0 | 1
|
Total | 8
| 40 |
8 | 0
| 0 |
64 | 1
|
The Committee took oral
evidence and received memoranda for this inquiry in Session 1997-98;
these figures are therefore incomplete
*The Committee did not complete its inquiry on this subject in
Session 1997-98; these figures are therefore incomplete
|