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
Date | Destination
| 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
Date | Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose | Cost
|
17-18.2.99 | European 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
|
1-2.11.99 | Dounreay
| 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
|