Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

17. Home Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 41meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Corbett, Mr Robin (Chairman)
41
Cawsey, Mr Ian (added, 6.12.99)
29
Dean, Mrs Janet
31
Fabricant, Mr Michael
21
Howarth, Mr Gerald
35
Linton, Mr Martin
39
Malins, Mr Humfrey
24
Mullin, Mr Chris (discharged, 6.12.99)
0
Russell, Bob
28
Singh, Mr Marsha
25
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul
30
Winnick, Mr David
38

Overall attendance:
75.6 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
9 %

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Andrew Kennon, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Martyn Atkins, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Assistant: Mr Steve Barrett, Senior Executive Officer (Band B1).
Secretary: Liz Booth, Secretary (Band D1)

Specialist Adviser during the Session
Mr Angus McIntosh QPM.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
2
          Other Ministers
6
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
          Home Office
13
          Lord Chancellor's Department
3
          Crown Prosecution Service
1
          executive agencies
6
               comprising: Prison Service Agency
5
               Public Trust Office
1
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
2
               comprising: Criminal Cases Review Commission
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
80


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
18-19.1.00
Utrecht
9
2
Inquiry into Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder
£6,500(estimated outturn)
22-24.3.00
Rome
1*
1
Inquiry into Border Controls
£1,554.68
2-6.7.00
Hungary, Germany and Spain
7
2
Inquiry into Border Controls
£16,950(estimated outturn)
2-3.11.00
Rome
1*
0
Italian Parliament seminar on Organised Crime
£794.99

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
29-30.11.99
European Parliament, Brussels
1*
1
Seminar on EU Freedom, Security and Justice Policy
£989.32
21-22.11.00
European Commission and European Parliament, Brussels
6
3
EU Justice and Home Affairs issues and Inquiry into Border Controls
£4,200(estimated outturn)

*Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
1.2.00
Northamptonshire Police Headquarters
6
2
Inquiry into Controls over Firearms
£397.20
1.3.00
Blantyre House Prison, Kent
4
1
Briefing on resettlement
£196.09
11.5.00
HM Customs & Excise Headquarters, London SE1
4
4A
Inquiry into Border Controls
£26.79
23.5.00
Security Service Headquarters, London SW1
8
2
Briefing
£0.00
23-24.5.00
Calais and Dover
7
3
Inquiry into Border Controls
£2,810.20
6.6.00
Harwich and Felixstowe
6
3
Inquiry into Border Controls
£504.09
18.7.00
Heathrow Airport
6
3A
Inquiry into Border Controls
£397.00
16-17.10.00
Blantyre House Prison, Kent
8
7B
Inquiry into Blantyre House Prison
£1,421.32
7.11.00
National Criminal Intelligence Service, London SE11
6
4A
Inquiry into Border Controls
£95.99
16.11.00
Joint Entry Clearance Unit, London SE1
5
3A
Inquiry into Border Controls
£55.83


A Includes 1 specialist adviser
B Includes 2 shorthand writers

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder
42
14.3.00
121
£14.70
Received 12.5.00: published as Third Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Second Report: Controls over Firearms
95-I
13.4.00
75
£11.50
Cm 4864, published 4.10.00
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Controls over Firearms
95-II
13.4.00
311
£22.40
Not applicable
Third Report: The Double Jeopardy Rule
190
8.6.00
84
£12.50
Not required
Fourth Report: Blantyre House Prison
904
16.11.00
131
£15.90
Received 15.1.01: published as First Special Report, HC 139, Session 2000-01 on 17.1.01
First Special Report: Government Reply to the Fourth Report, Session 1998-99 (Police Training and Recruitment)
77
7.12.99
20
£4.75
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Reply to the Fifth Report, Session 1998-99 (Drugs and Prisons)
271
3.3.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Reply to the First Report, (Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder)
505
18.5.00
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: EU Justice and Home Affairs Issues
402-1
20.6.00
26
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
429-i
19.7.00
24
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Future of the Public Trust Office
445-i
20.7.00
49
£9.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Crown Prosecution Service
476-i
19.7.00
36
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Drugs and Prisons: Follow Up
506-i
5.10.00
30
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Report of the Independent Inquiry into The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, Drugs and the Law
561-i
20.7.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Home Office Annual Report 1999-2000
708-i
24.8.00
45
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Lord Chancellor's Department Annual Report 1999-2000
856-i
1.11.00
37
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Home Office
994-i
Not yet published
  
  
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's Second Report: Freemasonry in Public Life, published as Cm 4813 (18.7.00).
Reply to the Committee's Third Report: Accountability of the Security Service, published as Cm 4588 (28.1.00).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 27.1.00 as HC 905, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 783, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

Third Report, Session 1999-2000, The Double Jeopardy Rule, 26.10.00.

The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:

Fourth Report, Session 1997-98, Electoral Law and Administration, on Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, 30.11.99.

Third Report, Session 1998-99, Accountability of the Security Service, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (Security and Intelligence Agencies), 22.6.00.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 41 meetings. On 2 of these occasions evidence was taken partly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder
2
Controls over Firearms
3
The Double Jeopardy Rule
2
Blantyre House Prison
3
Border Controls*
4
Miscellaneous
9
Total
23

*The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 1999-2000


 
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