Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

19. International Development

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 53 meetings. This included 6 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).


Members
Meetings attended

Wells, Mr Bowen (Chairman)
44
Clwyd, Ann
47 [including 5 CM]
Colman, Mr Tony (added, 6.6.00)
19
Follett, Barbara
16
Grant, Mr Bernie (died, 8.4.00)
5
Jones, Mr Nigel
14 [including 1 CM]
Khabra, Mr Piara S
46 [including 6 CM]
King, Ms Oona
29
Kingham, Ms Tess
13 [including 1 CM]
Robathan, Mr Andrew
37
Rowe, Mr Andrew
41 [including 3 CM]
Worthington, Mr Tony
45 [including 2 CM]

Overall attendance:
65.8 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
0
Turnover of membership during the Session:
9%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Yusef Azad, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Ms Janet Hughes, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Specialist: Mr William Benson (Band B2).
Committee Assistant: Mr Ian Thomson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2) (from 22.11.99).
Secretary: Ms Samantha Hill (temporary, from 13.12.99 until 7.4.00); Mr Anthony Waldron (temporary, from 10.4.00 until 20.4.00), Ms Julia Kalogerides, Secretary (Band D1) (until 1.10.00); Ms Lisette Andrews, Secretary (Band D1) (from 1.10.00).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Simon Wright.

Witnesses

Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
7
          Other Ministers
3
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
     Department for International Development
28
          other departments:
12
               comprising:
               Ministry of Defence
2
               Export Credits Guarantee Department
3
               Foreign and Commonwealth Office
3
               HM Treasury
1
               Home Office
1
               Department of Trade and Industry
2
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
4
               comprising:
          National Criminal Intelligence Service (a public body within the responsibility of the
               Secretary of State for the Home Department)
2
          Financial Services Authority (a public body within the responsibility of the
               Chancellor of the Exchequer)
2
Appearances by other witnesses:
47


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
23-25.11.99
Paris
1*
0
Inter-parliamentary forum on the Balkans
£501.21
28-29.11.99
Stockholm
1*
0
Quadripartite Committee inquiry Strategic Export Controls
£692.68
5-10.12.99
Geneva and Paris
8
2
Inquiry into the World Trade Organisation and Developing Countries
£14,322.79 A
12-26.2.00
Southern Africa
7
2
To examine the delivery of DFID-funded development activity
£45,680 (estimated outturn)
15-17.5.00
Washington
1*
0
Quadripartite Committee inquiry into Strategic Export Controls
£3,959.59
28-29.5.00
The Hague
3*
1
Meeting of Parliamentarians with the World Bank at the Dutch Parliament
£1,800.32
20-21.9.00
Paris
1*
1
Meeting of Chairs of Parliamentary Committees of Member States of European Union and European Parliament
£1,119.51

* Travel in a representative capacity
A £953.64 represents costs of a facilitator for Mr Grant

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
5-6.7.00
Brussels
7
3 A
Inquiry into the Effectiveness of EC Development Assistance
£4,472 (estimated outturn)

A Includes 1shorthand writer

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
15.6.00
DFID's office, East Kilbride
6
4 A
Inquiry into Department for International Development: 2000 Departmental Report
£3,036.60


A Includes 1 shorthand writer

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: The Export Credits Guarantee Department — Developmental Issues
73
17.12.99
97
£13.60
Received 25.7.00: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Second Report: The Future of Sanctions
67
10.2.00
240
£20.50
Received 19.4.00: published as Second Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Third Report: Annual Reports for 1997 and 1998 on Strategic Export Controls*
255
11.2.00
141
£15.90
Cm 4799, published 14.7.00
Fourth Report: Debt Relief — Further Developments
251
7.3.00
73
£11.50
Received 3.5.00: published as Third Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Fifth Report: Mozambique
326
3.5.00
111
£13.60
Received 5.7.00: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Sixth Report: ECGD, Developmental Issues and the Ilisu Dam
211
12.7.00
62
£10.60
Received 21.9.00: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 1999-2000
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: Department for International Development: 2000 Departmental Report
475
8.8.00
159
£17.00
Received: 2.10.00: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Ninth Report: The Effectiveness of EC Development Assistance
669
8.8.00
113
£14.70
Received 23.10.00: published as Ninth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Tenth Report: After Seattle — The World Trade Organisation and Developing Countries
227
29.11.00
240
£20.50
Awaited
First Special Report: Government Response to the Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 1998-99: Women and Development
54
18.2.00
19
£4.75
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: The Future of Sanctions
473
16.5.00
19
£4.75
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: Debt Relief — Further Developments
474
16.5.00
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Exchange of letters concerning the Ilisu Dam
813
19.7.00
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: Mozambique
820
7.8.00
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Government Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: The Export Credits Guarantee Department — Developmental Issues
862
7.8.00
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: Government Response to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: ECGD, Developmental Issues and the Ilisu Dam
923
30.10.00
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Eighth Special Report: Government Response to the Eighth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: Department for International Development: 2000 Departmental Report
924
30.10.00
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Ninth Special Report: Government Response to the Ninth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: The Effectiveness of EC Development Assistance
949
7.11.00
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: DFID's Policy towards China and Pakistan
126
10.4.00
31
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank
966
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Not yet published

* Joint publication with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's Fourth Report: Debt Relief and the Cologne G8 Summit, published in HC 251 (16.5.00).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 17.5.00 as HC 907, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 785, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Sixth Report, Session 1998-99, Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, 15.3.00.

Seventh Report, Session 1998-99, Women and Development, 30.3.00.

Second Report, Session 1999-2000, The Future of Sanctions, 29.6.00.

Ninth Report, Session 1999-2000, The Effectiveness of EC Development Assistance, 23.11.00.

The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to an Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall:

Sixth Report, Session 1998-99, Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconstruction, 19.4.00.

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

Minutes of Evidence, 14 March 2000, HC 326-i, on Mozambique on an Opposition Motion on The Government's Handing of the Mozambique Crisis, 16.3.00.

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

Minutes of Evidence, 4 July 2000, HC 669-i, on EC Development Assistance, 13.7.00.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 30 of the Committee's 53 meetings. On two of these occasions evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The Future of Sanctions
1 †
Mozambique
2
ECGD, Developmental Issues and the Ilisu Dam
1
Strategic Export Controls: Further Report and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny*
1
Department for International Development: 2000 Departmental Report
3
The Effectiveness of EC Development Assistance
2
After Seattle — The World Trade Organisation and Developing Countries
7
DFID's Policy towards China and Pakistan
1
Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank
2
**HIV/AIDS
7
**Corruption
3
Total
30


†  The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC1 (1998-99))
*  Jointly with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees
**  The Committee did not complete these inquiries in Session 1999-2000


 
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