Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

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

The Sub-committee was nominated on 15 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 35 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth (Chairman)
35
Bennett, Mr Andrew F.
29
Donaldson, Mr Jeffrey M. (added, 14.6.00)
9
Donohoe, Mr Brian
28
Forsythe, Mr Clifford (died 27.4.00)
15
Gorman Mrs Teresa
12
Gray, Mr James
17
Ladyman Dr Stephen (added, 13.12.99)
23
McIntosh Miss Anne
33
O'Brien, Mr Bill
29
Olner, Mr Bill
26
Stevenson, Mr George
31
Stringer, Mr Graham (discharged, 13.12.99)
0

Overall attendance:
74.5 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
9 %

Staff
Clerk of the Sub-committee: Mr Gavin Devine, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Kevin Lee (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Miss Frances Allingham, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Leslie Young, Secretary (Band D1) (until 30.4.00).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Chris Bolt, Mr Rob Gifford and Mr Laurie Price.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
1
          Other Ministers.
2
     Ministerial appearances by Members of the House of Lords
6
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
          Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
19
          executive agencies
1
               comprising: Highways Agency
1
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
22
               comprising: Civil Aviation Authority
5
               Commission for Integrated Transport
1
               Docklands Light Railway
2
               London Transport
5
               National Air Traffic Services
4
               Shadow Strategic Rail Authority
5
     Members of Parliament
2
     Appearances by other witnesses:
116



Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
1-12.2.00
Singapore and Australia
9
2
Inquiry into Light Rapid Transit Systems
£53,908.90

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
19.1.00
South London
8
4
Inquiry into Light Rapid Transit Systems
£49.30
9.11.00
West Drayton
6
2
Inquiry into National Air Traffic Services
£10.00

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
Minutes of Evidence: Millennium Compliance of the Transport Industry
33-i
20.12.99
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Minute of Evidence: London Underground
121-i
1.3.00
33
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Road Safety
449-i
7.6.00
15
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: 10-Year Plan for Transport
726-i
  
  
 
Not applicable

Divisions

Date
Subject
26 .1.00One, on Question, That the Chairman's draft Report be the First Report of the Sub-committee to the Committee.
12.7.00Eight, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the Road Haulage Industry.

Debates
The following Minutes of Evidence were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:
Minutes of Evidence, 23 June 1999, HC 585-i, on Second Reading of the Transport Bill, 20.12.99.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 29 of the Committee's 35 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Millennium Compliance of the Transport Industry
1
The Proposed Public-Private Partnership for National Air Traffic Services
2
London Underground
1
Light Rapid Transit Systems
3
The Road Haulage Industry
3
Funding of London Underground
3
Road Safety
1
Departmental Annual Report 2000 and Expenditure Plans 2000-01 to 2001-02
1
Air Service Agreements between the United Kingdom and the United States
5
Rail Investment: Renewal, Maintenance and Development of the Rail Network*
5
The Work of the Commission for Integrated Transport
1
10-Year Plan for Transport
1
Recent Events on the Railways
1
Developments at National Air Traffic Services*
1
Total
29

*The Committee did not complete these inquiries in Session 1999-2000


 
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