Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

11A. Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs: Environment Sub-committee

The Sub-committee was nominated on 15 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 34 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Mr Andrew F. Bennett (Chairman)
34
Mr Hilary Benn (added, 6.12.99)
28
Mr Crispin Blunt (added, 21.2.00)
19
Mr Tom Brake
24
Christine Butler
23
Mr John Cummings
22
Mr Brian Donohoe
27
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody
25
Mr Louise Ellman
28
Mr James Gray
14
Mr Bill Olner
28
Mr John Randall (discharged, 21.2.00)
3
Mr Alan Whitehead (discharged, 6.12.99)
0

Overall attendance:
73.5 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18 %


Staff
Clerk of the Sub-committee: Mr David Harrison, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Huw Yardley, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (Assistant Clerk (Band A3) until 30.9.00).
Committee Specialists: Miss Katie Smith (Band B1), Dr Dave Taylor (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Miss Jacqueline Recardo, Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
Secretary: Mrs Susan Morrison, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Alan Barber, Mr Richard Bate, Mary Bowerman, Dr Janet Dwyer, Professor John Harrington, Mr Dominic Hogg, Mr David Lambert, Mr David MacDonald, Mr David Mansell, Mr John Popham, Mr Tony Redmond, Mr Graham Reid, Dr Julie Rugg, Mr David Slater, Dr Vanessa Toulmin, Mr Stephen Tromans.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Ministers
8
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
          Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
18
          other departments
2
               comprising: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1
               Department of Trade and Industry
1
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
40
               comprising: Advisory Panel on Standards for the Planning Inspectorate
1
               Audit Commission
3
               British Nuclear Fuels
2
               Countryside Agency
5
               English Heritage
3
               English Nature
5
               Environment Agency
8
               HM Customs and Excise
1
               Health and Safety Commission and Executive
3
               Joint Nature Conservation Committee
1
               New Opportunities Fund
2
               Planning Inspectorate
3
               Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee
3
Members of Parliament
1
Appearances by other witnesses
143

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
16-21.7.00
Spain
4
2
Inquiry into UK Biodiversity
£7,000 (estimated outturn)

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
13-14.1.00
Somerset and Bristol, South West
5
4A
Inquiry into the Environment Agency
£1,674.23
6-7.3.00
Bromsgrove and Lichfield
3
4AB
Inquiry into Travelling Fairs
£703.97
19-20.4.00
Kirkcaldy
3
3A
Inquiry into Travelling Fairs
£1,712.79
20.6.00
Suffolk
4
4AA
Inquiry into UK Biodiversity
£518.97


A Includes 1 specialist adviser

AA Includes 2 specialist advisers

B Includes 1 shorthand writer

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Work of the Health and Safety Executive
31-II
14.2.00
77
£11.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Environment Agency
34-II
18.5.00
142
£15.90
Not applicable
Memoranda: The Audit Commission
174-II
24.1.00
81
£11.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Audit Commission
174-III
22.6.00
88
£12.50
Not applicable
Memoranda: Travelling Fairs
284-II
2.3.00
64
£10.60
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Travelling Fairs
284-III
5.6.00
78
£11.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Town and Country Parks
333-i
11.4.00
29
£7.00
Not applicable
Memoranda: The Planning Inspectorate and Public Inquiries
364-II
23.3.00
103
£13.60
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Planning Inspectorate and Public Inquiries
364-III
11.7.00
135
£15.90
Not applicable
Memoranda: UK Biodiversity
441-II
15.5.00
118
£14.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: UK Biodiversity
441-III
6.12.00
145
£17.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Countryside Agency
665-i
18.8.00
26
£6.20
Not applicable

Divisions
None.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 31 of the Sub-committee's 34 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The Work of the Health and Safety Executive †
1
The Environment Agency †
4
The Audit Commission
4
Travelling Fairs
3
Town and Country Parks
1
The Planning Inspectorate and Public Inquiries
4
DETR Annual Report 2000 and Expenditure Plans 2000-01 to 2001-02
1
UK Biodiversity
6
The Countryside Agency
1
Delivering Sustainable Waste Management*
7
Total
32

†  The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (1998-99))
*  The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 1999-2000


 
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