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 .1.00 | One, on Question, That the Chairman's draft Report be the First Report of the Sub-committee to the Committee.
|
12.7.00 | Eight, 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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