Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

10A. Education and Employment: Education Sub-committee

The Sub-committee was nominated on 23 July 1997.

It had up to 13 Members and held 42 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Wicks, Mr Malcolm (Chairman)(discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Sheerman, Mr Barry (added, 30.11.99)(elected Chairman, 1.12.99)
39
Atkins, Charlotte
39
Davey, Valerie
36
Flint , Caroline (discharged, 13.12.99)
0
Foster, Mr Derek (ex officio)
0
Foster, Mr Michael (Worcester) (added, 30.11.99)
37
Hayes, Mr John (discharged, 1.2.00)
0
Harris, Dr Evan
32
Healey, Mr John (discharged, 29.11.99 )
0
Jones, Ms Helen (added, 14.12.99)
28
Marsden, Mr Gordon
38
O'Brien, Mr Stephen (added, 30.11.99)
27
Rammell, Mr Bill (discharged, 13.12.99)
0
St Aubyn, Mr Nick
36
Willis, Mr Phil (discharged, 1.2.00)
0

Overall attendance:
71.7 %*
Number of Members added:
4
Number of Members discharged:
6
Turnover of membership during the Session:
46 %

*calculated as percentage of the maximum possible number of individual attendances

Staff
Clerk of the Sub-committee: Mr Liam Laurence Smyth (Senior Structure Band 2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Robert Rees (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Mr Richard Dawson (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Claire Halls, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Janet Beer, Professor Davina Cooper, Dr Eilis Ferran, Professor Christine Pascal, Ms Rosemary Peacocke, Professor Kathy Sylva, Sir William Taylor CBE.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Other Ministers .
3
          Ministerial appearances by Members of the House of Lords
3
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
          Department for Education and Employment
5
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
16
               comprising:  Office for Standards in Education
10
               Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
2
               Higher Education Funding Council for England
2
               General Teaching Council
2
     Members of the Scottish Executive
1
     Appearances by other witnesses:  82


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
5-8.6.00
Copenhagen
4
3A
Inquiry into Early Years
£6,715 (estimated outturn)
3-6.9.00
Santiago de Compostela
2*
1*
Inquiry into Higher Education
£3,720 (estimated outturn)
8-14.10.00
USA
9
2
Inquiry into Higher Education
£40,933 (estimated outturn)

A   Includes 1 specialist adviser
* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
30.11.99
Lambeth
4
3
Inquiry into the Role of Private Companies in the Management and Supply of State Education Services
£255.00
18.1.00
Gateshead
6
3
Inquiry into the Role of Private Companies in the Management and Supply of State Education Services
£2,261.04
04.4.00
Oxfordshire
5
9 A
Inquiry into Early Years
£717.60
10.5.00
Bristol
3
5 B
Inquiry into Early Years
£895.90
15.6.00
Haringey
3
3
Inquiry into Early Years
£0.00


A  Includes 2 specialist advisers, 1 shorthand writer and Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) research fellow

B   Includes 3 specialist advisers and POST research fellow

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.(1999-2000)
Date ofpublication
No. ofpages
Sale price
Government reply
Minutes of Evidence: General Teaching Council
239-i
22.2.00
15
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-i
9.5.00
15
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-i
15.5.00
25
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-ii
31.5.00
24
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-iii
31.5.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-ii
6.6.00
25
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-iii
13.6.00
46
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-iv
13.6.00
19
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-iv
12.7.00
42
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-v
12.7.00
41
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-vi
13.7.00
22
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-v
13.7.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Early Years
386-vii
10.8.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-vi
10.8.00
23
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-vii
10.8.00
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-viii
10.8.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-xi
10.8.00
16
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-x
10.8.00
22
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-xii
6.9.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-xiii
6.9.00
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-xiv & -xv
6.9.00
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Teaching Trades Unions
722
6.9.00
17
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education
400-xi
12.9.00
11
£3.40
Not applicable

Divisions
None.

Debates
None.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 25 of the Sub-committee's 42 meetings. At three of these meetings oral evidence was taken on more than one inquiry. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The Role of Private Companies in the Management and Supply of State Education Services †
3
Early Years*
6
Higher Education*
15
Miscellaneous:
     General Teaching Council
     OFSTED Annual Report 1998-99
     Teaching trades unions
     OFSTED Corporate Plan 2000

1
1
1
1
Total
28


†  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 these inquiries in Session 1999-2000


 
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