Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

7. Culture, Media and Sport

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 41 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Kaufman, Mr Gerald (Chairman)
40
Faber, Mr David
35
Fearn, Mr Ronnie
35
Fraser, Mr Christopher
20
Golding, Mrs Llin
37
Keen, Mr Alan
40
Kirkbride, Miss Julie
29
Maxton, Mr John
35
Organ, Mrs Diana (added, 6.12.99)
22
Ward, Ms Claire
35
Wyatt, Derek
36

Overall attendance:
80.7 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
0
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Colin Lee, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Richard Cooke, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Assistant: Mrs Nicole Mulloy, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Mrs Amanda Waller, Secretary (Band D1) (until 25.2.00); Mrs Jane Cooper, Secretary (Band D1) (from 28.2.00 until 10.3.00); and Miss Louise Sargent, Secretary (Band D1) (from 13.3.00).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
3
          Other Ministers
5
     Ministerial appearances by Members of the House of Lords
1
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of Department for Culture, Media and Sport
9
          other departments
3
               comprising:  Department for Education and Employment
1
               HM Customs and Excise
2
          public bodies of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
28
               comprising:  British Library
3
               British Museum
3
               Independent Television Commission
5
               Library and Information Commission
4
               Millennium Commission
1
               Museums and Galleries Commission
2
               Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
2
               National Lottery Commission
3
               New Millennium Experience Company
2
               Sport England
3
Members of Parliament
1
Appearances by other witnesses
155


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
26-31.3.00
Thessaloniki, Athens and Rome
10
2
Inquiry into Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
£23,551.53
3-5.10.00
Vilnius
1*
1*
Attendance at Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets
£2,508.04

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
8.2.00
Sheerness and Chatham
7
3
Inquiry into Libraries
£904.40
21.3.00
The British Museum
6
3
Inquiry into Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
£200.00
5.4.00
New Scotland Yard
8
3
Inquiry into Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
£0.00
24.5.00
The Millennium Dome
8
2
Inquiry into Marking the Millennium in the United Kingdom
£28.80
20-22.6.00
Scotland
9
2
Inquiry into Marking the Millennium in the United Kingdom
£7,809.47
7.11.00
Watford
6
3
Inquiry into the Operation of the National Lottery
£555.66

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Countdown to the Millennium
24-I
24.11.99
24
£6.30
Cm 4589, published 31.1.00
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Countdown to the Millennium
24-II
24.11.99
70
£11.50
Not applicable
Second Report: The Future of Professional Rugby
99
14.12.99
157
£17.00
Received 10.2.00: published as First Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Third Report: The Funding of the BBC
25-I
20.12.99
58
£9.30
Cm 4674, published 22.3.00
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Funding of the BBC
25-II
20.12.99
282
£22.50
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Wembley National Stadium
164
2.3.00
190
£19.50
Cm 4686, published 23.3.00
Fifth Report: Whatever Happened to News at Ten?
289
22.3.00
82
£11.50
Not required
Sixth Report: Public Libraries
241
24.5.00
184
£19.50
Received 25.7.00: published as Third Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Seventh Report: Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
371-I
25.7.00
63
£11.10
Received 2.10.00: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Minutes of Evidence: Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
371-II
25.7.00
252
£22.00
Not applicable
Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence: Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
371-III
25.7.00
148
£17.00
Not applicable
Eighth Report: Marking the Millennium in the United Kingdom
578-I
1.8.00
44
£8.80
Cm 4899, published 23.10.00
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Marking the Millennium in the United Kingdom
578-II
1.8.00
250
£20.50
Not applicable
Ninth Report: Report and Accounts of the BBC for 1999-2000
719
2.8.00
44
£8.80
Received 2.10.00: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
First Special Report: The Future of Professional Rugby: Government Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000
268
20.3.00
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Wembley National Stadium: Responses to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000
412
11.4.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Public Libraries: Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000
867
3.8.00
11
£3.40
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade: Initial Government Response to the Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000
944
2.11.00
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Report and Accounts of the BBC for 1999-2000: Responses from the Government and the BBC to the Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000
945
2.11.00
11
£3.40
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's Fourth Report: Staging International Sporting Events, published as Cm 4575 (26.1.00).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 10.4.00 as HC 895, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 7.12.00 as HC 773, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions

Date
Subject
15.12.99One, on consideration of draft Reports on the Funding of the BBC, on Amendment proposed to leave out the words "Chairman's draft Report" and insert the words "draft Report proposed by Mr John Maxton".

One, on Question, That the Report on the Funding of the BBC, as amended, be the Third Report of the Committee to the House.

Debates
None.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 29 of the Committee's 41 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The Funding of the BBC
6
Wembley National Stadium
3
Whatever Happened to News at Ten?
1
Public Libraries
4
Cultural Property: Return and Illicit Trade
8
Marking the Millennium in the United Kingdom
3
Report and Accounts of the BBC for 1999-2000
1
Operation of the National Lottery*
3
Total
29

*   The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 1999-2000


 
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