The Culture, Media and Sport Committee:
Membership and Powers
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is appointed
to examine, on behalf of the House of Commons, the expenditure,
administration and policy of the Department for Culture, Media
and Sport and its associated public bodies. The Committee's constitution
and powers are set out in House of Commons Standing Order No.
152.
The Committee has a maximum of 11 Members, of whom
the quorum for any formal proceedings is three. The members of
the Committee are appointed by the House and, unless discharged,
remain on the Committee until the next dissolution of Parliament.
The present membership of the Committee is as follows[1]:
Mr Chris Bryant MP (Labour,
Rhondda)
Mr Frank Doran MP (Labour, Aberdeen Central)
Michael Fabricant MP (Conservative, Lichfield)
Mr Adrian Flook MP (Conservative, Taunton)
Mr Gerald Kaufman MP (Labour, Manchester Gorton)
Alan Keen MP (Labour, Feltham and Heston)
Miss Julie Kirkbride MP (Conservative, Bromsgrove)
Rosemary McKenna MP (Labour, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth)
Ms Debra Shipley MP (Labour, Stourbridge)
John Thurso MP (Liberal Democrat, Caithness, Sutherland and
Easter Ross)
Derek Wyatt MP (Labour, Sittingbourne and Sheppey)
At its first meeting, on 19 July 2001, the Committee
elected Mr Gerald Kaufman as its Chairman.
The Committee has powers to require the submission
of documents, examine witnesses and publish Reports to the House
accompanied by the evidence it has gathered. The Committee may
meet during the Adjournment of the House and may hold meetings
away from Westminster. The Committee may meet concurrently with
other committees or sub-committees established under Standing
Order No. 152 (departmentally-related committees) to deliberate,
take evidence or consider draft Reports. The Committee may meet
concurrently with the House's European Scrutiny Committee (or
any of its sub-committees) or the Environmental Audit Committee
to deliberate or take evidence. The Committee may exchange documents
and evidence with any of these committees, as well as with the
House's Public Accounts and Deregulation Committees.
In the footnotes to this Report, references to oral
evidence are indicated by 'Q' followed by the question number
and references to written evidence are indicated by 'Ev' followed
by a page number. The formal proceedings of the Committee in agreeing
this Report are set out immediately after the Report itself.
The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All Reports of
the Committee, including published evidence, together with press
notices issued by the Committee, are available on the Committee's
homepage at www.parliament.uk/commons/selcom/cmshome.htm on the
Internet. Further details of the Committee's activities are given,
for each parliamentary session, in the Sessional Returns
series, and the Committee's Minutes of Proceedings, also
published by The Stationery Office.
All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk
of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Committee Office, House
of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number
for general inquiries is: 020 7219 6188; the Committee's e-mail
address is cmscom@parliament.uk.
1 Appointed 19 July 2001. Back
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