Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

10. Education and Employment

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 17 Members and held 16 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Allan, Mr Richard (added, 13.11.00)
1
Atherton, Ms Candy
7
Atkins, Charlotte
10
Brady, Mr Graham
4
Cooper, Yvette (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Davey, Valerie
10
Flint, Caroline (discharged, 13.12.99)
0
Foster, Mr Derek
16
Foster, Mr Michael (Worcester) (added, 29.11.99)
14
Harris, Dr Evan
8
Hayes, Mr John (discharged, 8.5.00)
0
Healey, Mr John (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Jones, Ms Helen (added, 13.12.99)
9
Laing, Mrs Eleanor (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Mallaber, Judy
8
Marsden, Mr Gordon
8
Nicholls, Mr Patrick (added, 8.5.00)
1
O'Brien, Mr Stephen (added, 29.11.99)
8
Pearson, Mr Ian (added, 29.11.99)
6
Rammell, Mr Bill (discharged, 13.12.99)
0
St Aubyn, Mr Nick
12
Sheerman, Mr Barry (added, 29.11.99)
14
Twigg, Mr Stephen (added, 13.12.99)
5
Wicks, Mr Malcolm (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Willis, Mr Phil (discharged, 13.11.00)
0

Overall attendance:
51.8 %
Number of Members added:
8
Number of Members discharged:
8
Turnover of membership during the Session:
47 %

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Liam Laurence Smyth, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Tom Healey, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialists: Mr Eamon Lally (Band B1)(until 20.10.00) and Mr Robert Rees (Band B1 ).
Committee Assistants: Mr Richard Dawson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2) and Mr Darren Hackett, Chief Office Clerk (Band C)(from 17.1.00).
Secretaries: Miss Pam Morris, Secretary (Band D1), Ms Claire Halls , Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Marilyn Howard, Mr Tony Travers.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
1
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
          Department for Education and Employment
3


Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits
None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(1999-2000)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: School Meals
96
14.12.99
110
£13.60
Received 14.2.00: published as Third
Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Second Report: Visit to USA: Raising Educational Standards and the Role of the Private Sector
290
7.3.00
45
£8.80
Not applicable
Third Report: The Draft Part-time Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000
297
22.3.00 (in typescript);23.3.00
24
£6.50
Received 18.5.00: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Fourth Report: Employability and Jobs: Is There A Jobs Gap?
60-I
19.4.00
56
£9.70
Received 16.6.00: published as Fifth
Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Minutes of Evidence: Employability and Jobs: Is There A Jobs Gap?
60-II
18.5.00
232
 20.60
Not applicable
Fifth Report: Work Permits for Overseas Footballers
218
18.5.00
146
£17.00
Received 10.7.00: published as Sixth
Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Sixth Report: Standards and Quality in Education: the Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools 1998-99
345
16.5.00
55
£9.70
Received 29.5.00 (OFSTED) and 12.7.00 (DfEE): published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Seventh Report: The Role of Private Sector Organisations in Public Education
118
29.6.00
150
£17.00
Cm 4844, published 8.9.00
Eighth Report: New Deal for Young People: Two Years On
510
11.7.00
28
£7.00
Received 3.11.00; published as Eighth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Opportunities for Disabled People
111-II of 1998-1999
9.12.99
352
£25.20
Not applicable
First Special Report: The Government's Response to the Eighth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99:Access for All? A Survey of Post-16 Participation
213
9.2.00
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Second Special Report: The Government's Response to the Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: Opportunities for Disabled People
214
9.2.00
22
£5.50
Not applicable
Third Special Report: The Government's Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: School Meals
291
2.3.00
9
£3.40
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Third Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: The Draft Part-time Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000
522
25.5.00
6
£2.25
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: Employability and Jobs: Is There A Jobs Gap?
603
23.6.00
20
£4.75
Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: Work Permits for Overseas Footballers
860
27.07.00
6
£3.40
Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: The Government's and OFSTED's Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: Standards and Quality in Education: the Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools 1998-99
861
27.7.00
6
£3.40
Not applicable
Eighth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Eighth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: New Deal for Young People: Two Years On
969
14.11.00
11
£3.40
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 10.12.99 as HC 898, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 775, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions

Date
Subject
20.6.00One, on an Amendment proposed to Report from the Education Sub-committee [The Role of the Private Sector Organisations in Public Education]
25.7.00Three, on Motions to appoint specialist advisers

Debates

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

Eighth Report, Session 1998-99, Access for All? A Survey of Post-16 Participation (HC 57), on Second Reading of the Learning and Skills Bill [Lords], 30.3.00.

The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Ninth Report, Session 1998-99, Opportunities for Disabled People, 13.4.00.

First Report, Session 1999-2000, School Meals, 22.6.00.

Oral Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at two of the Committee's meetings. On neither of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
DfEE Funding†*
2
Total
2

†  The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC1 (1998-99))
*  The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 1999-2000


 
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