Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

21. Modernisation of the House of Commons

The Committee was nominated on 4 June 1998.
It had 15 Members and held 16 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

*Beckett, Mrs Margaret (Chairman)
16
Mrs Angela Browning (added, 25.10.99)
2
Caplin, Mr Ivor
16
Coffey, Ann (added, 9.2.00)
12
Drew, Mr David (discharged, 20.1.00)
1
Emery, Sir Peter
14
Fitzsimons, Mrs Lorna
16
Jackson, Ms Helen
16
Pike, Mr Peter L
14
Prentice, Mr Gordon
8
Shepherd, Mr Richard
15
Soley, Mr Clive
12
Stunell, Mr Andrew
14
Taylor, David (added, 20.1.00)
12
Twigg, Mr Stephen (discharged, 9.2.00)
3
Tyler, Mr Paul
14
Winterton, Mr Nicholas
15
Young, Sir George (discharged, 25.10.00)
13

Overall attendance:
83.2%
Number of Members added:
3
Number of Members discharged:
3
Turnover of membership during the Session:
20%

* held a Ministerial post while being a member of the Committee

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Charles Winnifrith CB, Clerk of Committees (Senior Structure Band 6).
Second Clerk: Mr Alan Sandall, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Committee Assistant: Miss Nerys Welfoot, Chief Office Clerk (Band C) (until 312.99); Miss Carolyn Wilson, Chief Office Clerk (Band C) (from 6.12.99).
Secretary: Miss Louise Sargent, Secretary (Band D1) (until 10.3.00); Ms Jane Cooper, Secretary (Band D1)(from 13.3.00).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor R J Hynds.

Witnesses
None.

Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits
None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Facilities for the Media
408
10.4.00
8
£2.55
Not applicable
Second Report: Programming of Legislation and Timing of Votes
589
6.7.00
48
£8.80
Not applicable
Third Report: Thursday Sittings
954
6.11.00
12
£3.70
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Sittings in Westminster Hall
906
13.11.00
16
£5.10
Not applicable

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 8.12.99 as HC 909, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 788, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions

Date
Subject
5.7.00Four, on questions arising during consideration of Chairman's draft Report on Programming of Legislation and Timing of Votes.

Debates
The following Reports were debated in the House:

Third Report, Session 1999-2000, Thursday Sittings, 20.11.00.

Fourth Report, Session 1999-2000, Sittings in Westminster Hall, 20.11.00.

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

Second Report, Session 1999-2000, Programming of Legislation and Timing of Votes, on debate on Motions relating to programming of bills and deferred divisions, 7.11.00.

Oral Evidence
None.


 
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