10. SELECT COMMITTEES
B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK,
PUBLICATIONS ETC
11. Education and Employment
The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 17 Members and held 9 meetings.
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Members | Meetings attended
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Allan, Mr Richard | 7
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Atherton, Ms Candy | 1
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Atkins, Charlotte | 1
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Brady, Mr Graham | 0
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Davey, Valerie | 6
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Foster, Mr Derek | 8
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Foster, Mr Michael (Worcester) | 6
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Harris, Dr Evan | 5
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Jones, Helen | 5
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Mallaber, Judy (discharged, 13.2.01) | 1
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Marsden, Mr Gordon | 4
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Nicholls, Mr Patrick | 3
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O'Brien, Mr Stephen | 4
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Pearson, Mr Ian (discharged, 5.3.01) | 1
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Pollard, Mr Kerry (added, 5.3.01) | 2
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St Aubyn, Mr Nick | 3
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Sheerman, Mr Barry | 8
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Trickett, Mr Jon (added, 13.2.01) | 2
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Twigg, Mr Stephen | 4
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Overall attendance: | 46.4 %
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Number of Members added: | 2
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Number of Members discharged: | 2
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Turnover of membership during the Session: |
12 % |
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Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Liam Laurence Smyth, Deputy Principal
Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mrs Jessica Mulley, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Robert Rees (Band B1 ).
Committee Assistants: Mr Richard
Dawson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2) and Mr Darren Hackett,
Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
Secretaries: Miss Pam Morris, Secretary (Band D1) and Ms Claire
Halls, Secretary (Band D1).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Tony Travers.
Witnesses |
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Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
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Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
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Department for Education and Employment:
| 3 |
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
Title | HC No.
(2000-01)
| Date of
publication
| No. of
pages
| Sale price
| Government
reply
|
First Report: Early Years
| 33-I |
11.1.01 |
56 | £11.50
| Received 20.3.01: published as Fourth
Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Early Years
| 33-II |
11.1.01 |
358 | £25.70
| Not applicable
|
Second Report: OFSTED Corporate Plan 2000
| 34 |
19.12.00 |
50 | £9.70
| Government Response received 13.2.01: published as Second
Special Report, Session 2000-01; OFSTED Response received 19.2.01: published as Third Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Third Report: Recruiting Unemployed People
| 48 |
7.2.01 |
242 | £20.50
| Received 23.3.01: published as Fifth
Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Fourth Report: Higher Education: Access
| 205 |
8.2.01 |
350 | £25.20
| Received 23.3.01: published as Sixth
Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Fifth Report: The New Deal: An Evaluation
| 58 |
20.3.01 |
180 | £18.00
| Received 9.5.01; published as Ninth Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Sixth Report: Higher Education: Student Retention
| 124 |
23.3.01 |
318 | £23.00
| DfEE Response received 2.5.01; HEFCE Response received 9.5.01; published as Seventh
Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Seventh Report: Age Discrimination in Employment
| 259 |
27.3.01 |
108 | £13.60
| Received 8.5.01; published as Eighth Special Report, Session 2000-01
|
Eighth Report: Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools' Annual Report 1999/2000
| 362 |
11.5.01 |
54 | £9.70
| Awaited
|
Minutes of Evidence: DfEE Funding - Departmental Report 2001
| 451-i |
21.6.01 |
13 | £4.00
| Not applicable
|
First Special Report: The Work of the Committee
| 206 |
27.2.01 |
282 | £22.00
| Not applicable
|
Second Special Report: The Government's Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: OFSTED Corporate Plan 2000
| 258 |
15.2.01 |
10 | £3.40
| Not applicable
|
Third Special Report: OFSTED's Response to the Second Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: OFSTED Corporate Plan 2000
| 294 |
8.3.01 |
10 | £ 3.40
| Not applicable
|
Fourth Special Report: The Government's Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: Early Years
| 361 |
26.3.01 |
18 | £4.75
| Not applicable
|
Fifth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Third Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: Recruiting Unemployed People
| 383 |
30.3.03 |
16 | £4.00
| Not applicable
|
Sixth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Fourth Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: Higher Education: Access
| 384
| 30.3.01
| 14 |
£4.00
| Not applicable
|
Seventh Special Report: Response from the Government and from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to the Sixth Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: Higher Education: Student Retention
| 385
| 11.5.01
| 20 |
£4.75
| Not applicable
|
Eighth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Seventh Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: Age Discrimination in Employment
| 518 |
11.5.01 |
12 | £3.40
| Not applicable
|
Ninth Special Report: The Government's Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: New Deal: An Evaluation
| 519 |
11.5.01 |
16 | £4.00
| Not applicable
|
Tenth Special Report: The Work of the Committee in the 2000-01 Session
| 520 |
21.6.01 |
20 | £5.50
| Not applicable
|
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000
were published as HC 775, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings
of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 524,
Session 2000-01.
Divisions
Date | Subject
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12.12.00 | One, on an Amendment proposed to Report from the Education Sub-committee, OFSTED Corporate Plan 2000
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30.1.01 | Thirteen, on Amendments proposed to Report from the Education Sub-committee, Higher Education: Access
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Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper
as being relevant to a debate in the House:
Sixth Report, Session 1999-2000, Standards and Quality
in Education: Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of
Schools 1998-99, and Second Report, Session 2000-01, OFSTED
Corporate Plan 2000, on a three hour adjournment debate in
Westminster Hall, 15.2.01.
Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 1 of the Committee's meetings.
No evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.
Inquiry | No. of oral evidence sessions
|
DfEE Funding* |
1 |
Total | 1
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| The Committee also took oral evidence on this inquiry in Sessions 1998-99 and 1999-2000; figures appear in the Returns for those Sessions (HC 1 (1999-2000) and HC 100 (2000-01))
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* | The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 2000-01
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