Sessional Returns Session 1999-2000 - Contents


B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

29. Social Security

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 31 meetings. This included 1 meeting held concurrently with the Employment Sub-committee of the Education and Employment Committee (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).

  


Members
Meetings attended

Kirkwood, Mr Archy (Chairman)
29 (including 1 CM)]
Buck, Ms Karen
23
Crausby, Mr David (added, 6.12.99)
20(including 1 CM)
Dismore, Mr Andrew
24(including 1 CM)
Humble, Mrs Joan
26(including 1 CM)
King, Mr Andy (added, 29.11.99)
20(including 1 CM)
Kirkbride, Miss Julie (discharged, 22.11.99)
0
Leigh, Mr Edward
24
Mountford, Kali (discharged, 22.11.99)
0
Naysmith, Dr Doug
29(including 1 CM)
Pond, Mr Chris (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Robertson, Mr Laurie (added, 22.11.99)
28(including 1 CM)
Shipley, Ms Debra (discharged, 29.11.99)
0
Swayne, Mr Desmond
22(including 1 CM)
Thomas, Mr Gareth (added, 29.11.99)
22

Overall attendance:
78.3 %
Number of Members added:
4
Number of Members discharged:
4
Turnover of membership during the Session:
36%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Philip Moon, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Second Clerk: Mr Peter Shelley, Assistant Clerk (Band A3)(until 14.1.00); Mr Tom Goldsmith, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (Senior Clerk from 1.10.00); Miss Kate Emms, Senior Clerk (Band A2)(from 30.10.00).
Committee Specialist: Ms Janet Allbeson (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Ms Diane Nelson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Mandy Sullivan, Secretary (Band D1)(until 12.5.00); Miss Leslie Young, Secretary (Band D1)(from 15.5.00).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Steve Griffiths, Ms Sarah Rowe, Ms Ruth Hancock and Mr Steve Wilcox.

Witnesses

Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers 4
          Other Ministers 3
          Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
          Department of Social Security 9
          other departments 3
               comprising: Lord Chancellor's Department 3
          executive agencies: 6
               comprising: Child Support Agency 1
               Benefits Agency 4
               Appeals Service 1
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 3
               comprising: Audit Commission 3
     Appearances by other witnesses 80


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
10-17.3.00
Australia
6
2
Inquiry into The Contributory Principle
£46,700.46
24-27.9.00
Helsinki
1*
1
The Year 2000 International Research Conference on Social Security
£2,683.73
5-11.11.00
Canada
7
3
Inquiry into Integrated Child Tax Credit
£43,449 (estimated outturn)

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
7-8.12.99
Edinburgh and Falkirk
7
5
Meeting with Scottish Parliament Committee and visit to Falkirk CSA Centre
£5,779.32
25-26.1.00
Bristol
4
4B
Inquiry into Medical Services
£1,993.35
25.5.00
Camden
6
2
Inquiry into Housing Benefit
£165.00
12-13.6.00
St Helens, Warrington and Conwy
5
3A
Inquiry into Housing Benefit and visit to ONE project
£2,354.90
6.7.00
Hendon
5
3
Inquiry into Pensioner Poverty
£280.22
15-17.6.00
Stirling
0
2*
International Conference on the Future of Social Security
£969.58
Cancelled
Milton Keynes
  
  
  
£5.00
24-25.10.00
York
5
5
Seminar on a Comparative study of Social Security and Integrated Child Credit
£4,022.24


A Includes 1 specialist adviser
B Includes 1 shorthand writer
* Travel in a representative capacity
Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No. (1999-2000)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Power to Incur Expenditure under Section 82 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999: New Information Technology System for the Child Support Agency
180
25.1.00
14
4.30
Not required
Second Report: Power to Incur Expenditure under Section 82 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999: New Information Technology System for the Child Support Agency (Further Report)
315
21.3.00
11
3.70
Received 15.4.00: published as Third Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Third Report: Medical Services
183
20.4.00
292
22.00
Cm 4780, published 30.6.00
Fourth Report: Social Security and Child Support Commissioners
263
24.5.00
134
15.90
Received 22.7.00: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
Fifth Report: The Contributory Principle
56-I
20.6.00
51
9.70
Cm 4867, published 2.10.00
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Contributory Principle
56-II
20.6.00
318
24.50
Not applicable
Sixth Report: Housing Benefit
385-I
27.7.00
62
10.60
Cm 4869, published 2.10.00
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Housing Benefit
385-II
27.7.00
339
25.95
Not applicable
Seventh Report: Pensioner Poverty
606
2.8.00
173
20.50
Received 2.10.00: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 1999-2000
First Special Report: Government Response to Ninth Report of Session 1998-99, The Social Security Implications of Parental Leave
181
27.1.00
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Response to Eighth Report of Session 1998-99, The Modernisation of Social Security Appeals
182
27.1.00
17
£4.75
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to Second Report, Use of the Power granted by Section 82 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999
487
24.5.00
6
2.25
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to Fourth Report, Social Security and Child Support Commissioners
868
2.8.00
11
3.40
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Response to Seventh Report, Pensioner Poverty
952
15.11.00
11
3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: The Creation of a New Agency for People of a Working Age*
662-i
28.7.00
15
4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: DSS Departmental Report, Inherited SERPS Compensation Scheme and Resource Accounting and Budgeting
717-i
4.9.00
42
8.80
Not applicable

* Jointly with the Employment Sub-committee of the Education and Employment Committee

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's Eighth Report: The Modernisation of Social Security Appeals, published in the Committee's Second Special Report, HC 182 (27.1.00).
Reply to the Committee's Ninth Report: The Social Security Implications of Parental Leave, published in the Committee's First Special Report, HC 181 (27.1.00).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99 were published on 9.12.99 as HC 916, Session 1998-99. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be published as HC 795, Session 1999-2000.

Divisions

Date
Subject
24.5.00Two, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on The Contributory Principle.
7.6.00Five, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the The Contributory Principle.
19.7.00Five, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Housing Benefit.
26.7.00Six, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Pensioner Poverty.

Debates

The following Report was the subject of debate in the House:

Third Report, Session 1999-2000, Medical Services, and the Government Response, on an Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 6.7.00.

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

Tenth Report, Session 1998-99, The 1999 Child Support White Paper, and the Government Response, on Second Reading of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Bill, 11.1.00.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 31 meetings. On one of these occasions evidence was taken wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Power to Incur Expenditure under Section 82 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999: New Information Technology System for the Child Support Agency
1
The Contributory Principle†
1
Medical Services
4
Social Security and Child Support Commissioners
2
Housing Benefit
7
Pensioner Poverty
3
The Creation of a New Agency for People of a Working Age*
1
DSS Departmental Report, Inherited SERPS Compensation Scheme and Resource Accounting and Budgeting
1
Integrated Child Credit
3
Total
23

†  The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1998-99; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (1998-99))
*   Joint inquiry with the Employment Sub-committee of the Education and Employment Committee


 
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