Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

30. Science and Technology

The Committee was nominated on 5 June 1998.
It had 11 Members and held 40 meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Clark, Dr Michael (Chairman)
37
Atkinson, Mr David (discharged, 30.11.98)
0
Beard, Mr Nigel
39
Curtis-Thomas, Mrs Claire
22
Gibson, Dr Ian
38
Jackson, Mr Robert (added, 5.7.99)
2
Jones, Dr Lynne
33
Jones, Mr Nigel
20
Kumar, Dr Ashok
28
Lait, Mrs Jacqui (discharged, 5.7.99)
8
Taylor, Mr Ian (added, 30.11.98)
21
Turner, Dr Desmond
30
Williams, Dr Alan W
20

Overall attendance:
67.7 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18 %

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mrs Jessica Mulley, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Specialist: Mr Guy Rickett (Band A2)
Committee Assistant: Mrs Leonie Nugent, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Mrs Julia Kalogerides, Secretary (Band D1), (until 31.3.99); Mrs Anna Browning (Band D1), (from 7.4.99)

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Roger Baker, Professor Michael Brady, Professor Derek Burke, Professor Michael Elves, Mr John Ivinson, Professor Alan Malcolm, Professor Geoffrey Robinson, Ms Julie Sheppard.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 2
        Other Ministers 5
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Office of Science and Technology 3
        other departments 9
            comprising: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1
            Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions 2
            Department of Health 3
            Department of Trade and Industry 3
    
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 11
            comprising: Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes 2
            Advisory Committee on Releases into the Environment 1
            Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust 1
            Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 1
            English Nature 2
            Food Advisory Committee 1
            National Radiological Protection Board 2
            North Cheshire Health Authority 1
    Appearances by other witnesses 57

Overseas Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
19-21.1.99
Germany
8
2
Inquiry into Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
£9,425.44
3-4.6.99 Turkey
1*
  
Eureka Conference, Ankara
£1,281.34

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

DateDestination MembersStaff PurposeCost
 28.4.99The Royal Society, London
  
  
In connection with inquiry into The Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
£55.52
1.7.99
Research Council Headquarters, Swindon
4
2
Briefing on the Role of the Research Councils
£608.24

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.(1998-99)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
Sixth Report (Session 1997-98): Science and the Comprehensive Spending Review
1040(1997-98)
1.12.98
21
£5.80
Received 9 February: published as First Special Report, Session 1998-99
First Report:Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-1
18.5.99
42
£8.80
Reply awaited
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-i
17.3.99
18
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-ii
24.3.99
34
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-iii
13.4.99
32
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-iv
16.4.99
22
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-v
6.5.99
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-vi
6.5.99
10
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-vii
12.5.99
22
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
286-viii
12.5.99
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Second Report: National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
472
22.7.99
9
£3.70
Received 19 October: published as Second Special Report, Session 1998-99
Minutes of Evidence: National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
472-i
1.7.99
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Third Report: The Scientific Advisory System: Mobile Phones and Health
489
22.9.99
  
  
Reply awaited
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Mobile Phones and Health
489-i
30.7.99
20
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scientific Advisory System: Mobile Phones and Health
489-ii
30.7.99
22
£6.20
Not applicable
First Special Report: The Government's Response to the Committee's Sixth Report, Session 1997-98, Science and the Comprehensive Spending Review
234
23.2.99
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Second Special Report: The Government's Response to Committee's Second Report, The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
822
11.11.99
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-ii
27.1.99
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-iii
3.2.99
15
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-iv
4.2.99
17
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-v
10.2.99
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-vi
16.2.99
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-vii
25.2.99
23
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-viii
25.2.99
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation
17-ix
23.3.99
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Director General of the Research Councils
202-i
23.3.99
15
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Cortecs plc
332-i
27.4.99
25
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Year 2000-Computer Compliance: Follow-up
692-i
2.9.99
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Year 2000-Computer Compliance: Follow-up
692-ii
2.9.99
11
£4.00
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 4.3.99 as HC 1175, Session 1997-987. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as

HC 914, Session 1998-99.

Divisions

None.

Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 27 of the Committee's 40 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†
  
  
Engineering and Physical Sciences Based Innovation‡*
9
40
3
0
2
9
0
Scientific Advisory System‡*
0
4
2
0
1
0
0
Scientific Advisory System: Genetically Modified Foods
8
73
6
1
11
70
18
Scientific Advisory System: Mobile Phones and Health
2
35
3
0
4
34
10
Scientific Advisory System: Diabetes and Driving Licences*
2
8
1
0
0
0
0
National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
1
2
0
0
0
2
0
The Year 2000 - Computer Compliance: Follow-up
2
2
1
0
0
2
0
Regulation of the Biotechnology Industry
1
4
1
0
0
0
0
Miscellaneous
2
8
1
0
0
2
0
Total
 27
 176
 18
 1
18
 119
 28

†Includes non-Ministerial Departments
‡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 1998-99; these figures are therefore incomplete


 
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