10. SELECT COMMITTEES
34. Standards and Privileges
The Committee was nominated on 25 June 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 25 meetings.
|
Members | Meetings
|
| attended
|
|
Sheldon, Mr Robert (Chairman) | 25
|
Bell, Mr Martin | 22
|
Bottomley, Mr Peter | 20
|
Bruce, Mr Malcolm, (added, 3.11.99) | 0
|
Campbell-Savours, Mr Dale | 25
|
Forth, Mr Eric (added, 19.1.99) | 23
|
Foster, Mr Michael Jabez (Hastings and Rye)
| 25 |
Goodlad, Sir Alastair (discharged, 19.1.99)
| 1 |
Kennedy, Mr Charles (discharged, 3.11.99) |
8 |
Levitt, Mr Tom | 23
|
Lewis, Mr Terry | 16
|
McIsaac, Shona | 24
|
Williams, Mr Alan (Swansea West) |
23 |
|
Overall attendance: | 85.5 %
|
Number of Members added: | 2
|
Number of Members discharged: | 2
|
Turnover of membership during the Session: |
18 % |
|
Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Alan Sandall, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior
Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mrs Sarah Davies, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (until
1.11.99); Mr Steven Mark, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (from 1.11.99).
Secretary: Miss Lisa Hasell, Secretary (Band D1).
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 |
0 |
Other Ministers |
0 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office:
| 2 |
Members of Parliament
| 4 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 0 |
Overseas Visits
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: Advocacy and Declaration
| 257 |
17.2.99 |
6 | £2.25
| Not required
|
Second Report: Complaints against Mr Geoffrey Robinson
| 292 |
3.3.99 |
15 | £4.30
| Not required
|
Third Report: Complaints against Mr Francis Maude
| 308 |
10.3.99 |
11 | £3.70
| Not required
|
Fourth Report: Complaint against Sir Edward Heath
| 348 |
24.3.99 |
10 | £3.70
| Not required
|
Fifth Report: Complaint against Mr Geoffrey Robinson (No. 2)
| 362 |
31.3.99 |
6 | £2.55
| Not required
|
Sixth Report: Complaint against Mr Edward Leigh
| 374 |
14.4.99 |
6 | £2.00
| Not required
|
Seventh Report: Complaint against Mrs Teresa Gorman
| 458 |
20.5.99 |
9 | £3.70
| Not required
|
Minutes of Evidence: Complaint against Mrs Teresa Gorman
| 458-i |
To be published
|
|
| Not required
|
Eighth Report: Premature Disclosure of Reports of the Foreign Affairs Committee
| 607 |
30.6.99 |
38 | £8.00
| Copies of the Prime Minister's letter of 14 September to the Chairman and its enclosures placed in the Library of the House,28.10.99
|
Ninth Report: Complaints against Mr Peter Mandelson
| 611 |
1.7.99 |
72 | £11.50
| Not required
|
Tenth and Eleventh Reports: Unauthorised Receipt of a Draft Report of the Social Security Committee
| 747 |
27.7.99 |
35 | £8.00
| Not required
|
Twelfth Report: Remunerated Employment as a Member of another Elected Body
| 928 |
10.11.99 |
4 | £1.75
| Not required
|
Thirteenth Report: Complaint against Marjorie Mowlam; and Fourteenth Report: Complaint against Dr Jack Cunningham
| 929 |
10.11.99 |
14 | £4.30
| Not required
|
Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
Reply to the Committee's Eighth Report: Premature Disclosure
of Reports of the Foreign Affairs Committee, copies of the Prime
Minister's letter of 14 September to the Chairman and its enclosures
placed in the Library of the House, 28.10.99.
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98
were published on 20.1.99 as HC 1178, Session 1997-98. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published
as HC 917, Session 1998-99.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Reports were the subjects of debate in the House:
Eighth Report, Session 1998-99, Premature Disclosure of Reports
of the Foreign Affairs Committee, 12.7.99.
Tenth and Eleventh Reports, Session 1998-99, Unauthorised Receipt
of a Draft Report of the Social Security Committee, 21.10.99.
Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 4 of the Committee's 25 meetings. On
all of these occasions evidence was taken 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
| PCS* |
Other |
|
|
Advocacy and Declaration
| 0 |
1 | 0
| 1 |
0 | 1
| 0 |
Complaints against Members of Parliament
| 2 |
20 | 1
| 11 |
8 | 16
| 0 |
Premature Disclosure of Reports of the Foreign Affairs Committee
| 1 |
5 | 2
| 0 |
3 | 5
| 0 |
Unauthorised Receipt of a Draft Report of the Social Security Committee
| 1 |
3 | 0
| 0 |
3 | 3
| 0 |
Remunerated Employment as a Member of another Elected Body
| 0 |
1 | 0
| 1 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
Funding of Political Parties
| 0 |
1 | 1
| 0 |
0 | 0
| 0 |
Miscellaneous | 0
| 2 |
0 | 2
| 0 |
0 | 0
|
Total | 4
| 33 |
4 | 15
| 14 |
25 | 0
|
*Papers submitted to the Committee by the Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards as appendices to the memoranda are
not included in these figures.
|