Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

10B. Education and Employment: Employment Sub-committee

The Sub-committee was appointed on 23 July 1997.

It had up to 9 Members and held 30 meetings. This included one meeting held concurrently with the Social Security Committee (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).


Members
Meetings attended

Foster, Mr Derek (Chairman)
(including 1 CM)30
Allan, Mr Richard (added, 14.11.00)
1
Atherton, Candy
(including 1 CM)13
Brady, Mr Graham
22
Cooper, Yvette (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Healey, Mr John (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Laing, Eleanor (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Mallaber, Judy
(including 1 CM)23
Nicholls, Mr Patrick (added, 9.5.00)
11
Pearson, Mr Ian (added, 30.11.99)
18
Sheerman, Mr Barry (ex officio) (added, 14.12.99)
0
St. Aubyn, Mr Nick (discharged, 9.5.00)
0
Twigg, Mr Stephen (added, 14.12.99)
20

Overall attendance:
55.0%*
Number of Members added:
5
Number of Members discharged:
4
Turnover of membership during the Session:
44%

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

Staff
Clerk of the Sub-committee: Mr Tom Healey, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Eamon Lally, Committee Specialist (Band B1)(until 20.10.00).
Committee Assistant: Mr Darren Hackett, Chief Office Clerk (Band B3)(from 17.1.00).
Secretary: Miss Pam Morris, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Robert Bennett, Dr Dan Finn, Dr Jane Pillinger, Mr Richard Scothorne, Mr Dave Simmonds and Mr Michael Ward.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
2
          Other Ministers .
4
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
          Department for Education and Employment
7
          other departments:
5
               comprising: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
1
               Department of Trade and Industry
4
          executive agencies:
1
               comprising: Employment Service
1
     Appearances by other witnesses:
33


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
16-21.7.00
USA
5
2
Inquiry into Recruiting Unemployed People
£ 36,700
(estimated outturn)
17-18.11.00
Berlin
1*
0
Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Committees on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the EU States and of the European Parliament
£ 1,011.70

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
20-21.1.00
South Yorkshire
3
3
Inquiry into Employability and Jobs: Is There A Jobs Gap?
£ 1,815.35
28.11.00
Newham and Harlesden
2
2
Inquiry into Recruiting Unemployed People
£ 149.76

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.(1999-2000)
Date ofpublication
No. ofpages
Sale price
Governmentreply
Minutes of Evidence: Recruiting Unemployed People
533-i
17.7.00
17
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Recruiting Unemployed People
533-ii
17.7.00
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Recruiting Unemployed People
533-iii
20.7.00
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Recruiting Unemployed People
533-iv
28.7.00
11
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Creation of a New Agency for People of a Working Age *
662-i
28.7.00
15
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Recruiting Unemployed People
533-v
4.8.00
16
£4.75
Not applicable

* Jointly with the Social Security Committee

Divisions
None.

Debates
None.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 16 of the Committee's 30 meetings. At one 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
Employability and Jobs: Is there a Jobs Gap?†
5
The Draft Part-time Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000
1
Work Permits For Overseas Footballers
3
New Deal for Young People: Two Years On
1
Recruiting Unemployed People*
5
Miscellaneous:New DealThe Creation of a New Agency for People of a Working Age #
11
Total
17

†  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
#   Joint inquiry with the Social Security Committee


 
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