Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

16. Health

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.

It had 11 Members and held 40 meetings. This included 2 meetings held concurrently with the Agriculture Committee (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).


Members
Meetings attended

Hinchliffe, Mr David (Chairman)
40 (including 2 CM)
Amess, Mr David
35 (including 2 CM)
Austin, John
32
Brand, Dr Peter
30 (including 1 CM)
Burns, Mr Simon
34 (including 1 CM)
Drown, Julia (discharged, 30.11.99)
0
Gordon, Mrs Eileen (added, 30.11.99)
30 (including 1 CM)
Gunnell, Mr John
34
Hesford, Mr Stephen (added, 13.12.99)
24
Lewis, Mr Ivan (discharged, 13.12.99)
0
McDonagh, Siobhain (added, 27.11.00)
0
Roe, Mrs Marion (added, 13.11.00)
2 (including 1 CM)
Stoate, Dr Howard
27 (including 2 CM)
Syms, Mr Robert (discharged, 13.11.00)
3
Wise, Audrey (died, 2.9.00)
15 (including 1 CM)

Overall attendance:
69.5 %
Number of Members added:
4
Number of Members discharged:
3
Turnover of membership during the Session:
36%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Dr John Benger, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Tom Goldsmith, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (until 30.9.00, then Senior Clerk) (Band A2); Ms Sarah Ioannou, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (from 2.10.00).
Committee Specialists: Ms Suzanne O'Leary (Band B1); Ms Katherine Wright (Band A2) (from 1.3.00 to 1.9.00).
Committee Assistant: Mr Francis McShane, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Alexandra Richards, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Robert Bluglass CBE, Professor Nick Bosanquet, Mr Seán Boyle, Professor Harry Burns, Professor Tom Burns, Professor Joe Collier, Anna Coote, Mr Bob Dredge, Ms Angela Greatley, Mr Richard Harbord, Professor Gerard Hastings, Professor David Hunter, Professor Martin Jarvis, Professor Michael Kelly, Professor Sir Richard Peto, Professor Allyson Pollock, Mr Ray Rowden and Mr Chris Vellenoweth.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers 4
          Other Ministers 5
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
          Department of Health 16
          other departments 3
               comprising: Home Office 3
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
               comprising: Food Standards Agency 4
          NHS Trusts
               comprising: Countess of Chester Hospital 1
               Local Health Partnerships (Suffolk) 6
               Mid Essex Hospital Services 2
               Newcastle City Health 5
               Salford 1
          Health Authorities
               comprising: South Cheshire 2
               North Essex 2
          Special Health Authorities
               comprising: Health Development Agency 4
               Rampton Special Hospital 1
Members of Parliament1
Appearances by other witnesses74


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
28.11-3.12.99
Washington DC
6
2
Inquiry into the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
£39,014.93
18-25.10.00
Havana, Cuba
9
2
Inquiry into Public Health
£38,696(estimated outturn)

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
15-16.12.99
European Commission, Brussels
7
3
Inquiry into the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
£2,881.43

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
17-18.1.00
Scotland and the North East of England
7
4
Inquiry into the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
£5,381.13
26.1.00
BAT Factory, Southampton and BAT Depository, Guildford
7
3 A
Inquiry into the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
£279.69
10-12.4.00
Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham
4
8 B
Inquiry into the Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
£3,945.01
9.5.00
Broadmoor Special Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire
6
5 C
Inquiry into the Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
£807.43
23.5.00
HMP Belmarsh, Thamesmead, and the Bracton Centre Medium Secure Unit, Bexley
6
5 B
Inquiry into the Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
£480.00
6.6.00
St George's Hospital, Tooting, London
3
5 B
Inquiry into the Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
£480.00
7.6.00
Nafsiyat Inter-Cultural Therapy Centre, Finsbury Park, London
3
4 C
Inquiry into the Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
£119.85
14-15.11.00
Plymouth, Falmouth and Exeter
4
4
Inquiry into Public Health
£1,034 (estimated outturn)
22.11.00
Bromley by Bow Centre, London
3
3
Inquiry into Public Health
£129 (estimated outturn)

A Includes 4 specialist advisers
B Includes 2 specialist advisers
C Includes 1 specialist adviser

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: The Cost and Availability of Generic Drugs to the NHS
105
21.12.99
97
£13.60
Cm 4673, published 15.3.00
Second Report: The Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
27
14.6.00
83
£11.50
Cm 4905, published 30.10.00
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
27-II
14.6.00
643
£44.00
Not applicable
Third Report: Consultants' Contracts
586-I
6.7.00
26
£6.50
Cm 4930, published 27.11.00
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Consultants' Contracts
586-II
13.7.00
98
£13.60
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
373-I
24.7.00
90
£12.50
Cm 4888, published 27.10.00
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
373-II
24.7.00
368
£27.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence without a Report:
  
  
  
 
  
Winter Pressures in the NHS
266-i
2.5.00
26
£6.50
Not applicable
The Role and Functioning of the General Medical Council
299-i
18.4.00
32
£8.00
Not applicable
Food Standards Agency: Oral evidence taken jointly with the Agriculture Committee
354
13.4.00
19
£5.50
Not applicable
Public Expenditure and The National Plan
957-i
11.12.00
27
£7.00
Not applicable
Public Expenditure and The National Plan
957-ii
not yet published
  
  
Not applicable
The Phillips Report and the Food Standards Agency
762
11.1.01
 20
£5.50
Not applicable
Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2000 (Memorandum by the Department of Health containing replies to a written questionnaire from the Committee)
882
27.10.00
200
£22.00
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's Fifth Report: The Regulation of Private and other Independent Healthcare, published as Cm 4540 (3.12.99).
Reply to the Committee's Sixth Report: Procedures related to Adverse Clinical Incidents and Outcomes in Medical Care, published as Cm 4698 (6.4.00).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 8.2.00 as HC 904 (Session 1999-2000). The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 782, Session 2000-01.

Divisions

Date
Subject
26.6.00One, on an Amendment proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Consultants' Contracts.

Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

First Report, Session 1999-2000, The Cost and Availability of Generic Drugs to the NHS, 17.5.00.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 28 of the Committee's 40 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The Cost and Availability of Generic Drugs to the NHS
1
The Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking
9
Consultants' Contracts
2
Provision of NHS Mental Health Services
7
Winter Pressures in the NHS
1
The Role and Functioning of the General Medical Council
1
Food Standards Agency †
1
Public Expenditure and the National Plan
2
Public Health*
3
The Phillips Report and the Food Standards Agency †
1
Total
28

*  The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 1999-2000
†  Jointly with the Agriculture Committee


 
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