Sessional Returns Session 1998-99 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

37. Trade and Industry

The Committee was nominated on 9 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 40 meetings. This included 5 meetings held concurrently with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).


Members
Meetings
attended

O'Neill, Mr Martin (Chairman)
39 (including 5 CM)
Baldry, Mr Tony
17 (including 5 CM)
Bercow, Mr John (discharged 5.7.99)
7
Berry, Mr Roger
27 (including 2 CM)
Butterfill, Mr John
19
Chope, Mr Christopher (added 5.7.99)
8
Cunningham, Mr Jim
15
Hoyle, Mr Lindsay
28 (including 1 CM)
Laxton, Mr Bob
30 (including 1 CM)
Morgan, Mr Alasdair
23
Perham, Mrs Linda
17
Southworth, Mrs Helen
26

Overall attendance:
58.2 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
9 %

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr David Natzler, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Mark Egan, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Ms Julia Gleig (Band A2).
Committee Assistant: Mr Tony Catinella, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Mrs Alison Game, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor John Adams and Mr Peter Sommer.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Cabinet Ministers 4
        Other Ministers 8
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Department of Trade and Industry 16
        other departments 12
            comprising: Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1
            Department for International Development 2
            Foreign and Commonwealth Office 3
            HM Treasury 3
            Home Office 3
        executive agencies 3
            comprising: The Insolvency Service 3
        public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 31
            comprising: Consumer Communications for England 1
            Nuclear Installations Inspectorate 4
            Office of Telecommunications 7
            The Post Office 13
            Post Office Users National Council 2
            Scottish Environment Protection Agency 1
            United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 3
    Appearances by other witnesses 187

Overseas Visits

DateDestination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
24-25.3.99
Geneva
9
2
Visit to the World Trade Organisation and other bodies
£7,627.56
23-28.5.99
Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego
9
2
Work on various trade and industry related issues
£37,719.92(estimated outturn)

Visits to European Institutions

DateDestination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
17-18.2.99European Commission, Brussels
6
2
Meetings with Commissioners and Officials
£3,275.42

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
21-22.6.99
Sellafield
5
1
Future of BNFL
£1,527.20
1-2.11.99Dounreay
8
2
Dounreay inquiry
£6,500(estimated outturn)


Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.(1998-99)
Date ofpublication
No. ofpages
Sale price
Governmentreply
First Report: Vehicle Pricing
64
8.12.98
37
£13.60
Received 8.2.99: published as Third Special Report, session 1998-99
Second Report: Strategic Export Controls
65
10.12.98
197
£19.00
Received 16.2.99: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Third Report: Multilateral Agreement on Investment
112
5.1.99
97
£14.70
Received 8.3.99: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Fourth Report: Draft Limited Liability Partnership Bill
59
16.2.99
139
£15.90
Received 2.6.99: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Fifth Report: Telephone Numbering
139
16.2.99
112
£13.60
Received 16.4.99: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Sixth Report: Ethical Trading
235
16.3.99
88
£13.60
Received 14.5.99: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1998-99
Seventh Report: "Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce": The Government's Proposals
187
19.5.99
340
£27.70
Cm 4417 (23.7.99)
Eighth Report: Trade Marks, Fakes and Consumers
380
8.7.99
316
£23.20
Received 2.6.99: published as Tenth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Ninth Report: Impact on Industry of the Proposed Climate Change Levy
678-I
19.7.99
35
£8.00
Received 6.10.99: published as Eleventh Special Report, Session 1998-99
Ninth Report: Impact on Industry of the Climate Change Levy - Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
678-II
22.7.99
98
£18.00
Not applicable
Tenth Report: Electronic Commerce
648
9.8.99
81
£11.50
Received 18.10.99: published as Twelfth Special Report, Session 1998-99
Eleventh Report: The Horizon Project for Automated Payment of Benefits Through Post Offices
530
21.9.99
80
£11.50
Reply awaited
Twelfth Report: The 1999 Post Office White Paper
94
21.9.99
70
£10.60
Reply awaited
Thirteenth Report: Small Businesses and Enterprise
330
12.10.99
66
£10.60
Reply awaited
Fourteenth Report: Draft Electronic Communications Bill
862
3.11.99
38
£8.00
Reply awaited
First Special Report: The Future of the Post Office: Conduct of Inquiry
113
11.1.99
44
£8.50
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Industrial and Trade Relations with Central Europe
211
8.2.99
15
£4.00
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Vehicle Pricing
236
16.2.99
9
£3.40
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Strategic Export Controls
270
1.3.99
11
£3.40
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Multilateral Agreement on Investment
309
16.3.99
9
£3.40
Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Telephone Numbering
395
26.4.99
8
£2.25
Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: Ethical Trading
528
16.6.99
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Eighth Special Report: Draft Limited Liability Partnership Bill
529
16.6.99
19
£4.00
Not applicable
Ninth Special Report: Committees' Inquiry into the 1997 and 1998 Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls
540
30.6.99
104
£13.60
Not applicable
Tenth Special Report: Trade Marks, Fakes and Consumers
797
14.9.99
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Eleventh Special Report: The Impact on Industry of the Proposed Climate Change Levy
834
26.10.99
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Twelfth Special Report: Electronic Commerce
835
26.10.99
18
£4.75
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1997-98
Reply to the Committee's Twelfth Report: Industrial and Trade Relations with Central Europe, published as Second Special Report, HC 211 (9.2.99).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1997-98 were published on 18.11.98 as HC 1181, Session 1997-98. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 will be published as
HC 920, Session 1998-99.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was the subject of a debate in the House:

    First Report, Session 1998-99, Vehicle Pricing and the Government's response thereto, on a Motion for the Adjournment of the House on a Wednesday morning, under Standing Order No 10(4), 20.10.99.

The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:

    Ninth Report, Session 1998-99, The Impact on Industry of the Climate Change Levy, on an Opposition Motion on The Government's Proposed Energy Tax, 20.7.99.

Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 32 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†
  
  
Vehicle Pricing ‡
0
18
2
0
0
15
0
The Future of the Post Office: Conduct of Inquiry
2
2
0
0
0
2
0
Strategic Export Controls
1
31
5
0
0
31
0
Multilateral Agreement on Investment
2
21
1
0
0
21
0
Draft Limited Liability Partnership Bill
2
27
1
0
0
10
0
Telephone Numbering
1
33
0
0
3
26
7
Ethical Trading
1
24
5
0
0
20
1
"Building Confidence in Electronic Commerce": The Government's Proposals
6
121
2
0
4
73
19
Trade Marks, Fakes and Consumers
4
74
3
0
0
66
9
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
1
7
2
0
0
8
0
The Work of the Department of Trade and Industry
1
6
6
0
0
6
0
The Horizon Project for Automated Payment of Benefits through Post Offices
2
9
3
0
1
9
0
The Post Office White Paper
1
12
3
0
3
12
0
Electronic Commerce
0
6
2
0
1
6
0
The Impact on Industry of the Proposed Climate Change Levy
2
74
5
0
0
66
8
Draft Electronic Communications Bill
0
2
2
0
0
2
0
First and Second Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls *
2
30
15
0
0
13
0
Export Credit Guarantee Department *
2
60
3
0
0
0
0
Insolvency: DraftClauses *
1
14
0
1
0
0
0
Dounreay *
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Total
32
571
60
1
12
386
44

† 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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