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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