Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

11A. Education and Employment: Education Sub-committee

The Sub-committee was nominated on 23 July 1997.
It had 10 Members and held 18 meetings.



Members
Meetings attended

Sheerman, Mr Barry (Chairman)
18
Atkins, Charlotte
15
Davey, Valerie
12
Foster, Mr Derek (ex officio)
0
Foster, Mr Michael (Worcester)
9
Harris, Dr Evan
16
Jones, Helen
10
Marsden, Mr Gordon
12
O'Brien, Mr Stephen
7
St Aubyn, Mr Nick
12

Overall attendance:
62 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %

Staff
Clerk of the Sub-committee: Mr Liam Laurence Smyth, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Committee Specialist: Mr Robert Rees (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Mr Richard Dawson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2 ).
Secretary: Miss Claire Halls, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Janet Beer, Professor Davinia Cooper, Dr Eilis Ferran, Professor Christine Pascal, Mrs Rosemary Peacocke, Professor Alan Smithers, Professor Kathy Sylva, Sir William Taylor.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers:
0
          Other Ministers .
2
     Ministerial appearances by Members of the House of Lords
1
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
     Department for Education and Employment:
2
     public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
7
               comprising:     Office for Standards in Education
5
               Higher Education Funding Council for England
2
  
     Appearances by other witnesses:
23

Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
16.1.01
University of Surrey, Guildford and Kingston University
4
2
Inquiry into Higher Education (Student Retention)
£163.70
6.2.01
Manchester
6
2
Inquiry into Higher Education (Student Retention)
£1,860
(estimated outturn)


Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
Minutes of Evidence: Higher Education: Access — Follow-up
329
2.4.01
10
£3.40
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Early Years — Follow-up
438-i & ii
21.6.01
45
£11.00
Not applicable

Divisions

Date
Subject
18.1.01Two, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report, Higher Education: Access
24.1.01Thirteen, on Amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report, Higher Education: Access
28.2.01One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report, Higher Education: Student Retention

Debates
None.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 10 of the Sub-committee's meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

InquiryNo. of oral evidence sessions
Higher Education (Student Retention)
7
Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools Annual Report for 1999-2000
1
Miscellaneous:
Higher Education: Access — follow-up
Early Years: follow-up

1
2
Total
11




 
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