Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


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.


 
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