Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

15. Foreign Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.
It had 12 Members. It held 43 meetings of its own, and 7 Members participated in 4 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees. The Committee also held one meeting concurrently with the Trade and Industry Committee. These meetings are abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below.


Members
Meetings attended

Donald Anderson, Mr (Chairman)
42
Abbott, Ms Diane
29 (including 3 CM)
Chidgey, Mr David
29 (including 1 CM)
Emery, Sir Peter
25 (including 1 CM)
Godman, Dr Norman
24 (including 2 CM)
Illsley, Mr Eric
34 (including 1 CM)
Mackinlay, Mr Andrew
33
Madel, Sir David
37
Maples, Mr John (added, 13.11.00)
2
Rowlands, Mr Ted
42 (including 5 CM)
Stanley, Sir John
43 (including 5 CM)
Starkey, Dr Phyllis
35 (including 1 CM)
Wilshire, Mr David (discharged, 13.11.00)
13

Overall attendance:
67.0 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
8 %

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Paul Silk, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Ms Tabitha Brufal, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (from 17.11.00 to 28.7.00); Mr Steven Mark, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (from 1.11.00).
Committee Assistant: Mr James Davies, Senior Executive Officer (Band B1); assisted by Miss Ana Ferreira, Senior Office Clerk (Band D1).
Committee Specialist: Mr Daniel Thornton (Band B1).
Secretary: Mrs Sheryl Bertasius, Secretary (Band C) (17.11.99 to 21.1.00 and 18.5.00 to 31.10.00); Ms Jo-Anne Crowder, Secretary (Band C) (24.1.00 to 17.5.00).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Edwin Bacon, Mr Paul Bergne, Dr Wyn Bowen, Dr Shaun Breslin, Dr Richard Caplan, Dr Stephen Pullinger, Dr Bill Thompson and Ms Miranda Vickers.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers 9
          Other Ministers 6
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
          Foreign and Commonwealth Office 31
          British Trade International 4
Appearances by other witnesses39


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
23-25.11.99
Paris*
1
0
Conference on the Balkans
£503.53
28-29.11.99
Sweden**
2
0
Quadripartite Committee Inquiry into Strategic Export Controls
£1,426.34
9-10.2.00
Lisbon
9
2
Work in preparation for the Portuguese Presidency of the EU
£7,927.85
21-22.2.00
Geneva
7
1
Inquiry into Weapons of Mass Destruction
£6,632.03
6-10.3.00
Kosovo and Montenegro
10
2
Inquiry into Kosovo
£20,560 (estimated outturn)
19-23.3.00
Washington and New York
8
2
Inquiry into Weapons of Mass Destruction
£42,850 (estimated outturn)
15-17.5.00
Washington**
1
0
Quadripartite Committee Inquiry into Strategic Export Controls
£3,908.05
5-6.6.00
Lisbon*
1
1
Meeting of Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees of Parliaments of EU Member States, EU Applicant States and of the European Parliament
£1,972.38
18-24.6.00
China
9
2
Inquiry into China
£42,600 (estimated outturn)
4-6.7.00
Paris*
1
1
Meeting of Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees of Parliaments of EU Member States, EU Applicant States and of the European Parliament
£1,372.44
17-18.10.00
Paris
7
2
Work in preparation for the French Presidency of the EU
£5,660 (estimated outturn)

* Travel in a representative capacity
** Travel in a representative capacity as part of the Quadripartite Committee

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
31.1. -1.2.00
European Parliament, Brussels*
1
1
Attendance at the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament
£864.93

* Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
29.11.99
BBC Monitoring, Caversham
4
1
Briefings on the work of BBC Monitoring
£205.80
16.11.00
Joint Entry Clearance Unit, Albert Embankment
2
1
Tour of facility and briefings
£34.45


Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Annual Report on Human Rights 1999
41
3.2.00
79
£11.50
Cm 4687, published 30.3.00
Second Report: Annual Reports for 1997 and 1998 on Strategic Export Controls*
225
11.2.00
141
£15.90
Cm 4799, published 1.7.00
Third Report: Relations with the Russian Federation
101
28.2.00
332
£24.70
Cm 4715, published 4.5.00
Fourth Report: Kosovo
28-I
7.6.00
134
£15.90
Cm 4825, published 8.8.00
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Kosovo
28-II
7.6.00
378
£28.50
Not applicable
Fifth Report: Annual Reports of FCO and BTI
507
4.7.00
101
£13.60
Cm 4894, published 7.11.00
Sixth Report: Developments at the Intergovernmental Conference 2000
384
18.7.00
55
£9.70
Cm 4893, published 7.11.00
Seventh Report: Strategic Export Controls: Further Report and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny*
467
25.7.00
72
£10.60
Cm 4872 published 8.12.00
Eighth Report: Weapons of Mass Destruction
407
2.8.00
289
£22.00
Cm 4884, published 31.10.00
Ninth Report: Gibraltar: Follow-up
863
9.8.00
66
£10.60
Cm 4892, published 31.10.00
Tenth Report: China
574-I
29.11.00
89
£12.50
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: China
574-II
29.11.00
262
£22.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Helsinki European Council
68-i
26.1.00
24
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Feira European Council
68-ii
14.7.00
19
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Sierra Leone
519-i
20.7.00
17
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Zimbabwe
447-i
6.9.00
15
£4.74
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Zimbabwe
447-ii
6.10.00
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Developments in Israel and the Occupied Territories
935-i
13.12.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Nice European Council
68-iii
11.1.01
25
£6.20
Not applicable

* Joint publication with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
None.

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 14.2.00 as HC 903, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC781, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions

Date
Subject
23.5.00Three, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Kosovo.

Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

Fourth Report, Session 1998-99, Gibraltar, 8.6.00.

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

Minutes of Evidence, 30 November 1999, HC68-i, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House, European Union, 1.12.99.

Minutes of Evidence, 7 June 1999, HC68-ii, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House, European Union, 15.6.00.

Minutes of Evidence, 21 November 2000 HC68-iii, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House, European Union, 23.11.00.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 25 of the Committee's meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Annual Report on Human Rights 1999
1
Relations with the Russian Federation
1*
Kosovo
5
Annual Reports of FCO and BTI International 2000
2
Developments at the Intergovernmental Conference 2000
1
Strategic Export Controls: Further Report and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny
1*†
Weapons of Mass Destruction
3
China
3
Miscellaneous
7
Total
 24

*   The Committee took oral evidence on these inquiries in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC1 (1998-99)
†  Jointly with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees

  



 
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