Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

4. Agriculture

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 21 meetings. This included 1 meeting held concurrently with the European Scrutiny and International Development Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).



Members
Meetings attended

Curry, Mr David (Chairman)
21 (including 1 CM)
Borrow, Mr David
10 (including 1 CM)
Drew, Mr David
17 (including 1 CM)
Hurst, Mr Alan
6
Jack, Mr Michael
19 (including 1 CM)
Marsden, Mr Paul
0
Mitchell, Mr Austin
18
Öpik, Mr Lembit
17
Paterson, Mr Owen
4
Todd, Mr Mark
18 (including 1 CM)
Turner, Dr George
14

Overall attendance:
62.3%
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0%

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Ms Lynn Gardner, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).

Second Clerk: Mr Nick Wright, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (from 1.1.01).

Committee Specialist: Mr Richard Kelly (Band B1).

Committee Assistant: Mr Mark Oxborough, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).

Secretary: Ms Anne Woolhouse, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor Michael Haines, Professor Peter Hudson, Mr Graham Kerr, Professor Tim Roper, Professor Sir Colin Spedding CBE and Professor Alan Swinbank.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
      Number of appearances by:
  
            Cabinet Ministers
2
            Other Ministers
5
Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
1
      Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
  
            Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
6
            other departments
2
comprising: Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
1
            Office of Science and Technology
1
      public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
9
            comprising: Common Agricultural Policy Payments Agency
1
            Covent Garden Market Authority
2
            Horticulture Research International
3
            Meat and Livestock Commission
3
Appearances by other witnesses
24

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
29-30.1.01
DublinA
5
2
Inquiry into the Implementation of IACS in the European Union
£2,570
(estimated outturn)
12-13.2.01
Paris and Poitiers
6
2
Inquiry into the Implementation of IACS in the European Union
£6,219.87

A Part of visit to Belfast and Dublin

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
29.1.01
BelfastA
5
2
Inquiry into the Implementation of IACS in the European Union
£811.67
7.2.01
New Covent Garden Market
5
2
Inquiry into New Covent Garden Market
£0.00


A Part of visit to Belfast and Dublin

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis: Follow-Up
92
10.1.01
90
£12.50
Received 14.3.01: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Second Report: Organic Farming
149-I
24.1.01
52
£9.70
Received 3.4.01: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Organic Farming
149-II
24.1.01
253
£22.00
Not applicable
Third Report: Flood and Coastal Defence: Follow-Up
172
31.1.01
53
£9.70
Received 23.4.01: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Fourth Report: Horticulture Research International
53
31.1.01
59
£9.70
Received 3.4.01: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Fifth Report: The Work of the Forestry Commission
229
15.2.01
51
£9.70
Received 12.4.01: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 2000-01
Sixth Report: The UK Pig Industry
32
6.3.01
12
£3.70
Received 27.4.01: published as Ninth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Seventh Report: The Implementation of IACS in the European Union
150-I
3.4.01
34
£8.00
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Implementation of IACS in the European Union
150-II
3.4.01
136
£17.00
Not applicable
Eighth Report: New Covent Garden Market
173-I
4.4.01
16
£4.30
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: New Covent Garden Market
173-II
4.4.01
49
£10.60
Not applicable
First Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Ninth Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 1999-2000, MAFF/Intervention Board Departmental Report 2000 (HC 610)
52
19.12.00
6
£2.25
Not applicable
Second Special Report: The Committee's Work, Session 1999-2000
117
16.1.01
75
£11.20
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Eighth Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 1999-2000, Genetically Modified Organisms and Seed Segregation (HC 812)
230
9.2.01
6
£2.25
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Reply by the Government to the First Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis: Follow-Up (HC 92)
409
6.4.01
15
£4.00
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Second Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, Organic Farming (HC 149-I)
410
10.4.01
12
£3.40
Not applicable
Sixth Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Fourth Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, Horticulture Research International (HC 53)
411
10.4.01
6
£2.25
Not applicable
Seventh Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Fifth Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, The Work of the Forestry Commission (HC 229)
425
26.4.01
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Eighth Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Third Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, Flood and Coastal Defence: Follow-Up (HC 172)
437
30.4.01
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Ninth Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Sixth Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, The UK Pig Industry (HC 32)
456
8.5.01
4
£1.45
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The UK Pig Industry
32-i
11.12.00
44
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Market Access for Least Developed Countries and the Sugar Regime*
93
20.2.01
40
£8.80
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The CAP Payments Agency
231
16.3.01
24
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Foot and Mouth Disease
363-i
12.4.01
23
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Foot and Mouth Disease
363-ii
25.4.01
16
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Foot and Mouth Disease
363-iii
11.5.01
20
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Foot and Mouth Disease
363-iv
14.5.01
23
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Foot and Mouth Disease
363-v
18.6.01
24
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Sea Fishing
404
20.6.01
43
£8.70
Not applicable
Memoranda: Government Research into Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies and Intensive Farming
388
1.5.01
46
£8.80
Not applicable

*  Evidence taken by the Agriculture, European Scrutiny and International Development Committees meeting concurrently pursuant to paragraph (4)(e) of Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments)

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 25.1.01 as HC 770, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 479, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
None.

Oral Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 16 of the Committee's meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The UK Pig Industry
1
Horticulture Research International
1
Market Access for Least Developed Countries and the Sugar Regime A
1
The Implementation of IACS in the European Union
3
New Covent Garden Market
3
The CAP Payments Agency
1
Foot and Mouth Disease
5
Sea Fishing
1
Total
16


A  Evidence taken by the Agriculture, European Scrutiny and International Development Committees meeting concurrently pursuant to paragraph (4)(e) of Standing Order No. 152 (Select committees related to government departments)


 
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