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