THURSDAY 7 MARCH 2002
Members present:
Mr Alan Williams, in the Chair
Mr Derek Conway
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody
Mr Michael Fabricant
Mr Bruce George
Dr Ian Gibson
Mr David Hinchliffe
Mr Martyn Jones
Mr Archy Kirkwood
Mr Edward Leigh
Mr David Lepper
Mr John McFall
Mr John McWilliam
Mr Michael Mates
Mr Chris Mullin
Mr Martin O'Neill
Mr Peter Pike
Mr David Tredinnick
Mr Dennis Turner
Mr Nicholas Winterton
Sir George Young
The Committee deliberated.
Select Committees: Modernisation
Proposals
The Committee deliberated.
Draft Report (Select Committees: Modernisation Proposals),
proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 46 read and agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Second Report of the Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the Chairman
do make the Report to the House.
Debates in Westminster Hall:
The Committee agreed the Reports to be recommended for debate
in Westminster Hall.
Overseas Travel
Resolved, That the Committee
approves the following visits:
Foreign Affairs Committee to New York and Washington
at a cost not exceeding £24,949, to Cyprus at a cost
not exceeding £17,744, and to Copenhagen at a cost not exceeding
£16,842.
Education and Skills Committee to Paris at a cost
not exceeding £15,927;
Culture, Media and Sport Committee to the United
States at a cost not exceeding £64,950;
Defence Committee to NATO Enlargement countries at
a cost not exceeding £26,512, and to Russia at a cost not
exceeding £36,920;
Work and Pensions Committee to the United States
at a cost not exceeding £76,300;
European Scrutiny Committee to Copenhagen and Warsaw
at a cost not exceeding £29,400;
Trade and Industry Committee to Geneva at a cost
not exceeding £10, 745.—(The Chairman.)
[Adjourned till Thursday 11 April at half
past Nine o'clock
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