Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

13. European Scrutiny

The Committee was nominated on 17 November 1998.
It had 16 Members and held 36 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Hood, Mr Jimmy (Chairman)
25
Bradshaw, Mr Ben
24
Breed, Mr Colin
19
Casale, Mr Roger
21
Cash, Mr William
19
Connarty, Mr Michael
30
Dobbin, Mr Jim
26
Ewing, Mrs Margaret
0
Hall, Mr Patrick (added, 14.12.99)
17
Jones, Ms Jenny
27
McIntosh, Miss Anne (added, 20.11.00)
2
McKenna, Mrs Rosemary (discharged, 14.12.99)
1
Marshall, Mr Jim
29
Palmer, Dr Nick
2
Paterson, Mr Owen (discharged, 20.11.00)
20
Rammell, Mr Bill (discharged, 30.3.00) (added, 20.6.00)
13
Robertson, Mr Laurence
23
Rogers, Mr Allan (added 30.3.00) (discharged, 20.6.00)
2
Steen, Mr Anthony
14

Overall attendance:
51.2 %
Number of Members added:
4
Number of Members discharged:
4
Turnover of membership during the Session:
25%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mrs Elizabeth Flood, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (until 31.10.00); Mr Dorian Gerhold, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (from 1.11.00).
Second Clerk: Mrs Susan Craig, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Clerk/Advisers: Miss Josy Eldred, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr David Griffiths, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr Clive Wilson, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mrs Rosemary Melling CBE, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Legal Advisers: Mr John Vaux, Counsel to the Speaker (European Legislation &c) (Senior Structure Band 5)   (until 29.9.00); Mr Michael Carpenter, Counsel to the Speaker (European Legislation &c) (Senior Structure Band 3)(from 2.10.00); Ms Kemi Alagbala, Assistant Legal Adviser (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Miss Karen McClelland, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2); assisted by Mr Brian Dye,   Chief Office Clerk, (Band C); Mr Darren Hackett, Senior Office Clerk, (Band D1) (until 14.1.00) Mr Allen Mitchell, Senior Office Clerk, (Band D1) (from 10.1.00).
Secretaries: Mrs Keely Bishop, Secretary (Band D1) (from 6.12.99); Miss Susan Ramsay, Secretary (Band D1);   Ms Fiona Mearns, Secretary (Band D1); Mrs Alison Ross, Secretary (Band D1) (to 29.9.00); Mrs Claire Webster, Secretary, (Band D1) (to 26.11.99); Miss Jennifer Kelly, Secretary (Band D1) (from 3.7.00).

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Ministers
2
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
          Cabinet Office
1
          Home Office
2
          Trade and Industry
1
     Members of the European Court of Justice
1
     Members of the European Commission
2
     Members of the European Parliament
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
3


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
28-30.3.00
Lisbon
8
3
Work in preparation for the Portuguese Presidency of EU
£11,569.60
29-30.5.00
Lisbon
3*
2
Twenty-second Conference of European Affairs Committees (COSAC)
£4,224.06
2-6.7.00
Paris, Prague and Bratislava
9
3
Work on EU enlargement and work in preparation for the French Presidency of EU
£17,651(estimated outturn)
16-17.10.00
Versailles
3*
2
Twenty-third Conference of European Affairs Committees (COSAC)
£3,724.50

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
6-8.12.99
European Commission, Brussels
5
5A
Meetings with European Commission officials and Inquiry into forthcoming Inter-Governmental Conference
£4,641.43
1.2.00
European Parliament, Brussels
1*
1
Study day on forthcoming Inter-Governmental Conference
£935.12
11-12.7.00
European Parliament, Brussels
  
1*
Round table on Inter-Governmental Conference
£502.34

A Includes 2 shorthand writers

* Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
2-3.3.00Edinburgh
1
2
Liaison meeting with European Committee of Scottish Parliament
£831.91
3.11.00Glasgow
1
1
Inaugural meeting with Chairs of UK European Committees
£423.65


Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-00)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply*
First Report
23-i
7.12.99
51
£9.70
  
Second Report
23-ii
16.12.99
68
£10.60
  
Third and Fourth Reports
23-iii and23-iv
23.12.99
53
£11.50
  
Fifth Report
23-v
28.1.00
44
£8.80
  
Sixth Report
23-vi
16.2.00
63
£10.60
  
Seventh Report
23-vii
16.2.00
38
£8.00
  
Eighth Report
23-viii
22.2.00
65
£10.60
  
Ninth Report
23-ix
24.2.00
42
£8.80
  
Tenth Report
23-x
9.3.00
51
£9.70
  
Eleventh Report
23-xi
22.3.00
45
£8.80
  
Twelfth Report
23-xii
24.3.00
37
£8.00
  
Thirteenth Report
23-xiii
26.4.00
127
£14.70
  
Fourteenth Report
23-xiv
26.4.00
41
£8.80
  
Fifteenth Report
23-xv
4.5.00
44
£8.80
 
Seventeenth Report: The 2000 Inter-Governmental Conference
23-xvii97-i-v942-i
25.5.00
140
£15.90
Received 26.7.00: published as First Special Report, Session 1999-2000.
Eighteenth Report
23-xviii
30.5.00
61
£10.60
  
Sixteenth Report
23-xvi489
31.5.00
57
£9.70
  
Nineteenth Report
23-xix
16.6.00
75
£11.50
  
Twentieth Report
23-xx
23.6.00
54
£9.70
  
Twenty-first Report
23-xxi
26.6.00
51
£9.70
  
Twenty-second Report
23-xxii
28.6.00
39
£8.00
  
Twenty-third Report
23-xxiii
13.7.00
45
£8.80
  
Twenty-fourth Report
23-xxiv
24.7.00
54
£9.70
  
Twenty-fifth Report
23-xxv
1.8.00
43
£8.80
  
Twenty-sixth Report
23-xxvi
2.8.00
76
£11.50
  
Twenty-eighth Report
23-xxviii
17.11.00
97
£13.60
  
Twenty-seventh Report
23-xxvii
21.11.00
109
£13.60
  
Thirtieth Report
23-xxx
5.12.00
73
£11.50
  
Twenty-ninth Report
23-xxix
14.12.00
143
£15.90
  
Thirty-first Report
23-xxxi
15.12.00
93
£12.50
  
First Special Report: Government Observations on the Committee's Seventeenth Report: The 2000 Inter-Governmental Conference
803
4.12.00
33
£7.70
  
Minutes of Evidence: The Race Discrimination Directive
581
14.6.00
16
£3.40
  

*  The Committee does not require formal Government replies to each Report, but reports Government responses on individual documents throughout the Session

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published as HC 901, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 779, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions

Date
Subject
24.11.00One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report.
24.5.00One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report.
7.6.00One, on Question, That the Committee's decision on 5 April 2000 to refer the White Paper on Environmental Liability for debate to European Standing Committee A be rescinded.

One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report.

Debates
The following were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

Seventeenth Report, Session 1999-2000, The 2000 Inter-Governmental Conference, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment (European Affairs), (15.6.00).

Government Observations on the Committee's Seventeenth Report, Session 1999-2000, The 2000 Inter-Governmental Conference, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment (European Affairs), (23.11.00).

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 7 of the Committee's 36 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The 2000 Inter-Governmental Conference
6†
The Race Discrimination Directive
1
eEurope Initiative
1
Total
7

†  The Committee also took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC1 (1998-99))


 
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