Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


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.



Members
Meetings attended

Allan, Mr Richard
7
Atherton, Ms Candy
1
Atkins, Charlotte
1
Brady, Mr Graham
0
Davey, Valerie
6
Foster, Mr Derek
8
Foster, Mr Michael (Worcester)
6
Harris, Dr Evan
5
Jones, Helen
5
Mallaber, Judy (discharged, 13.2.01)
1
Marsden, Mr Gordon
4
Nicholls, Mr Patrick
3
O'Brien, Mr Stephen
4
Pearson, Mr Ian (discharged, 5.3.01)
1
Pollard, Mr Kerry (added, 5.3.01)
2
St Aubyn, Mr Nick
3
Sheerman, Mr Barry
8
Trickett, Mr Jon (added, 13.2.01)
2
Twigg, Mr Stephen
4

Overall attendance:
46.4 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
12 %

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
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          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
12.12.00One, on an Amendment proposed to Report from the Education Sub-committee, OFSTED Corporate Plan 2000
30.1.01Thirteen, on Amendments proposed to Report from the Education Sub-committee, Higher Education: Access


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.

InquiryNo. of oral evidence sessions
DfEE Funding‡*
1
Total
1

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))
*The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session 2000-01




 
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