B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK,
PUBLICATIONS ETC
12. Environmental Audit
The Committee was nominated on 12 November 1997.
It had 16 Members and held 30 meetings.
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Members | Meetings attended
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Horam, Mr John (Chairman) | 30
|
Baker, Mr Norman (discharged, 9.2.00) | 0
|
Blizzard, Mr Bob (discharged, 3.3.00) | 3
|
Body, Sir Richard (added, 18.1.00) | 6
|
Brinton, Mrs Helen | 17
|
Chaytor, Mr David (added, 30.3.00) | 14
|
Dafis, Mr Cynog (discharged, 11.1.00) | 0
|
Gerrard, Mr Neil | 24
|
Grieve, Mr Dominic | 11
|
Iddon, Dr Brian (discharged, 30.3.00) | 10
|
Jones, Mr Jon Owen (added, 25.11.99) | 20
|
Keetch, Mr Paul (added, 9.2.00) | 6
|
Loughton, Mr Tim | 14
|
1Meacher, Mr Michael | 0
|
Robertson, Mr Laurence (discharged, 18.1.00)
| 0 |
Russell, Ms Christine (added, 14.12.99) |
16 |
Savidge, Mr Malcolm | 16
|
Sawford, Mr Phil (added, 3.3.00) | 1
|
Shaw, Mr Jonathan | 10
|
Thomas, Mr Gareth R (Harrow West) (discharged, 25.11.99)
| 0 |
Thomas, Mr Simon (added, 14.2.00) | 17
|
Truswell, Mr Paul (discharged, 14.12.99) |
0 |
Walley, Joan | 24
|
|
1 Held a Ministerial post while being a member of the Committee: The Minister for the Environment has ex officio membership of the Committee.
| |
2 Overall attendance: | 49.8 %
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Number of Members added: | 6
|
Number of Members discharged: | 6
|
Turnover of membership during the Session: |
38% |
2 Taking into account the Minister's position, actual overall attendance in 1999-2000 was 53.1%
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|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Fergus Reid, Senior Clerk (Band
A2).
Committee Specialists: Mr Eric Lewis (seconded from the National
Audit Office) (Grade 7); Miss Emma Downing (seconded from the
Library) (Band A3).
Committee Assistant: Ms Tracy Herd, Higher Executive Officer (Band
B2).
Secretary: Mrs Jane Cooper, Secretary (Band D1) (until 28.2.00);
Ms Nicky Harte (temporary)(from 6.3.00 until 20.4.00); Mrs Melanie
Barklem, Secretary (Band D1) (from 2.5.00).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Duncan Brack, Professor Paul Ekins, Mr Paul Herrington,
Mr Chris Hewett, Ms Julie Hill, Professor Gerald Manners, Mr Alastair
Fulton, Mr Alister Scott, Mr Neil Summerton and Mr David Wilkinson.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Ministers
| 1 |
Other Ministers
| 5 |
Ministerial appearances by Members of the House of Lords
| 1 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
| |
Government departments
| 14 |
comprising:
| |
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
| 7 |
Department of Trade and Industry
| 2 |
HM Treasury
| 5 |
executive agencies
| 6 |
Environment Agency
| 6 |
public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
| 4 |
comprising:
| |
English Nature
| 2 |
Office of Water Services (Ofwat)
| 2 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 35 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
7-12.5.00 | Ottawa and Toronto, Canada
| 12 |
2 | Inquiry into Environmental Audit: the first Parliament
| £43,967.21
|
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date |
Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
27.6.00 | Vivendi Technical Centre, Watford
| 2* |
5A
| Inquiry into Water Prices and the Environment
| £0.00
|
4.7.00 | Fazakerley Waste Water Treatment Works, Warrington
| 4 |
5B
| Inquiry into Water Prices and the Environment
| £1,760.00
|
A Includes 2 specialist
advisers and 1work experience student
B Includes 1 special adviser and 2 work experience
students
* Travel in a representative capacity
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title | HC No. (1999-00)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages
| Sale price
| Government reply
|
First Report: EU Policy and the environment: An agenda for the Helsinki Summit
| 44 |
25.11.99 |
107 | £13.60
| Received 29.2.00*
|
Second Report: World Trade and Sustainable Development: An agenda for the Seattle Summit
| 45 |
25.11.99 |
146 | £17.00
| Received 1.2.00*
|
Memoranda: The Sustainable Development Strategy
| 175 |
3.2.00 |
168 | £18.00
| Not applicable
|
Third Report: Comprehensive Spending Review: Government Response and follow-up
| 233 |
14.2.00 |
32 | £7.00
| Received 28.6.00*
|
Fourth Report: The Pre-Budget Report 1999: pesticides, aggregates and the Climate Change Levy
| 76-I |
29.2.00 |
52 | £9.70
| Received 18.5.00; published in Sixth Report, Session 1999-2000
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
| 76-II |
6.3.00 |
242 | £25.00
| Not applicable
|
Fifth Report: The Greening Government Initiative: First Annual Report from the Green Ministers Committee
| 341 |
28.3.00 |
35 | £8.00
| Cm 4819, published 27.7.00
|
Minutes of Evidence: EU Policy and the Environment: follow-up
| 312-i |
18.5.00 |
51 | £9.70
| Not required
|
Sixth Report: Budget 2000 and the Environment
| 404 |
25.7.00 |
84 | £11.50
| Received 27.10.00*
|
Seventh Report: Water Prices and the Environment
| 597-I |
14.11.00 |
63 | £9.70
| Awaited
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
| 597-II
| 14.11.00
| 224 |
£9.70 |
Not applicable
|
*Reported to the House and placed in the Library;
awaiting formal publication
Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's First Report
of 1998-99: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment, published
in the Committee's Second Report of Session 1999-2000, HC 45,
25.11.99.
Reply to the Committee's Third Report of 1998-99: The Comprehensive
Spending Review and Public Service Agreements, published in
the Committee's Third Report of Session 1999-2000, HC 233, 14.2.00.
Reply to the Committee's Eighth Report of 1998-99: The Budget
1999: Environmental Implications, published in the Committee's
Fourth Report of Session 1999-2000, HC 76, 29.2.00.
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99
were published on 16.12.99 as HC 900, Session 1998-99. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be
published as HC 777, Session 1999-2000.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:
Fifth Report, Session 1998-99, GMOs and the Environment: Coordination
of Government Policy, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment
of the House (GMOs and Biotechnology), 13.1.00.
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to debates in the House:
First Report, Session 1999-2000, EU Policy and the Environment:
An agenda for the Helsinki Summit, on a Government Motion
for the Adjournment of the House (European Union), 1.12.99.
Second Report, Session 1999-2000, World Trade and Sustainable
Development: An agenda for the Seattle Summit, on a Government
Motion for the Adjournment of the House (World Trade Organisation
Millennium Round), 9.12.99.
Opinions
Response to Reference from the European Scrutiny Committee
on The European Commission White Paper on Environmental Liability,
COM (00)66. The White Paper was debated in European Standing Committee
A on 14.6.00.
Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 14 of the Committee's 30 meetings.
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private.
Inquiry | No. of oral evidence sessions
|
Pre-Budget Report 1999 |
4 |
Sustainable Development Strategy*
| 1 |
European Policy and the Environment: follow-up
| 1 |
Budget 2000 and the Environment
| 1 |
Environmental Audit: the First Parliament*
| 2 |
Energy Efficiency: follow-up*
| 1 |
Water Prices and the Environment
| 4 |
Total | 14
|
*The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session
1999-2000
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