Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

22. Northern Ireland Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 28 July 1997.
It had 13 Members and held 34 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Brooke, Mr Peter (Chairman)
34
Barnes, Mr Harry
24
Beggs, Mr Roy
31
Burgon, Mr Colin (added, 3.4.00)
9
Clarke, Mr Tony (added, 24.1.00)
22
Donaldson, Mr Jeffrey (discharged, 12.6.00)
15
Grogan, Mr John
22
Hesford, Mr Stephen (discharged, 24.1.00)
4
Hunter, Mr Andrew
23
McCabe, Mr Stephen
18
McGrady, Mr Eddie
17
McWalter, Mr Tony (discharged, 3.4.00)
6
Palmer, Dr Nick (added, 13.12.00)
14
Pound, Mr Stephen
29
*Robinson, Mr Peter
15
Salter, Mr Martin (discharged, 13.12.99)
1
Thompson, Mr William (added, 12.6.00)
11

Overall attendance:
66.7%
Number of Members added:
4
Number of Members discharged:
4
Turnover of membership during the Session:
31%

* held a Northern Ireland Executive Ministerial post while being a member of the Committee

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Dr Christopher Ward, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Committee Assistant: Mr Andy Hubner, Higher Executive Officer (Band A2).
Secretary: Mrs Yvonne Platt, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Tony Bottoms and Dr Andrew Coyle.

Witnesses

Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
1
          Other Ministers
1
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
          Northern Ireland Office
5
          other departments
               comprising: Northern Ireland Departments
6
          Executive agencies
               comprising: Northern Ireland Prison Service
3
          Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
               comprising:
               Northern Ireland Economic Council
2
               Northern Ireland Tourist Board
2
               Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company
5
               Parades Commission
1
Members of the Northern Ireland Executive
1
Members of the House of Lords
1
     Appearances by other witnesses
36


Overseas Visits
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
14-15.12.99
Northern Ireland
5
3*
Inquiry into Current Problems relating to the Livestock Industry in Northern Ireland
£2,987.21
2.2.00
Belfast
11
2
Publication of First Report
£3,439.63
13-14.3.00
Belfast and Ballymena
11
3*
Inquiry into public expenditure in Northern Ireland - Inward Investment
£4,498.13
8-9.5.00
Belfast
9
3*
Inquiry into public expenditure in Northern Ireland - InwardInvestment
£4,675.14
11-12.7.00
Northern Ireland
6
2
Inquiry into Parades Commission
£3,382.18
4.8.00
Belfast
6
2
Publication of Fourth and Fifth Reports
£1,669.40
28-29.11.00
Belfast
11
3*
Inquiry into Parades Commission
£4,600 (estimated outturn )

* Includes 1 shorthand writer

Visits to European Institutions
None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Scrutiny of Non-Departmental Bodies in Northern Ireland
179 and 80-I (1998-99) 1201 (1997-98)
2.2.00
68
£10.60
Not required
Second Report: Current Problems relating to the Livestock Industry in Northern Ireland
62897-i(1998-99)
14.3.00
128
£15.90
Received 24.5.00: published as Second Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Third Report: The Northern Ireland Office 2000 Departmental Report
450
27.4.00
5
£2.25
Letters to Clerk of Committee, received 23.6.00 and 12.7.00
Fourth Report: Northern Ireland Railways: Financial Provision for New Rolling Stock in 2000-01
512
4.8.00
103
£13.50
  
Fifth Report: Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland: Inward Investment 
198-I
4.8.00
34
£8.00
  
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland: Inward Investment
198-II 551-I (Session 1998-99)
4.8.00
219
£19.95
Not applicable
First Special Report: Devolution and the Work of the Committee
178
28.1.00
4
£1.45
Not required
Second Special Report: Government Response to the Second Report from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee: Current Problems relating to the Livestock Industry in Northern Ireland, HC 62
535
26.5.00
6
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Recent Political Developments in Northern Ireland
409-i
16.5.00
15
£4.75
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 29.2.00 as HC 910, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 789, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Fourth Report, Session 1997-98, The Prison Service in Northern Ireland, HC 716; and the Government Response thereto (Session 1998-99, HC 299), 27.1.00.

Fourth Report, Session 1998-99, The Operation of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989: Ten Years On, 15.3.00.

The following Report was debated in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee:

Second Report, Session 1999-2000, Current Problems relating to the Livestock Industry in Northern Ireland, HC 62, 13.4.00.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 24 of the Committee's 34 meetings. On one of these occasions evidence was taken partly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Scrutiny of Non-Departmental Public Bodies in Northern Ireland
1†
Current Problems relating to the Livestock Industry in Northern Ireland
3
Recent political developments in Northern Ireland
1
Northern Ireland Railways: Financial Provision for New Rolling Stock
2
Public Expenditure in Northern Ireland: Inward Investment
9*
Northern Ireland Prison Service
3
Parades Commission
3
Relocation following paramilitary intimidation
1#
Resource Accounting and Estimate for Class XV, Vote 2, 2000-01
1
Total
24

†  The Committee also took oral evidence on this inquiry in Sessions 1997-98 and 1998-99; figures appear in the Returns for those Sessions (HC 142 (1998-99) and HC 1 (1999-2000))
*  The Committee also took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC1 (1999-2000)
# The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 1999-2000


 
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