Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


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

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
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


 
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