Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

  12. Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.

It had 17 Members and held 15 meetings.



Members
Meetings attended

Benn, Mr Hilary
12
Bennett, Mr Andrew
15
Beresford, Sir Paul (added, 13.12.00)
1
Blunt, Mr Crispin
9
Brake, Mr Tom
6
Butler, Christine
2
Cummings, Mr John
2
Donaldson, Mr Jeffrey M
8
Donohoe, Mr Brian H
12
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
14
Ellman, Mrs Louise
15
Gorman, Mrs Teresa
1
Gray, Mr James (discharged, 13.12.00)
0
Ladyman, Dr Stephen
3
McIntosh, Miss Anne
12
O'Brien, Mr Bill
10
Olner, Mr Bill
10
Stevenson, Mr George
8

Overall attendance:
54.9 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
6 %

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr David Harrison, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Gavin Devine, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Third Clerk: Mr Huw Yardley, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (until 30.4.01).
Committee Specialists: Mr Kevin Lee (Band B1), Miss Katie Smith (Band B1), Dr David Taylor (Band B1).

    Committee Assistant: Miss Frances Allingham, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2), Miss Jacqueline Recardo, Chief Office Clerk (Band C).
    Secretaries: Mrs Susan Morrison, Secretary (Band D), Mrs Bridgid Seymour East (temporary, from 6.12.00 until 21.12.00) and Ms Liz McCracken (temporary, from 8.1.01 until 11.5.01).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Richard Bate, Mr John Hume, Mr David Lunts, Professor James McConville, Professor Richard Macrory and Professor Michael Parkinson.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers
1
          Other Ministers
5
Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
2
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
4
          other departments
1
comprising: Cabinet Office
1
          executive agencies
0
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
8
               comprising:  Countryside Agency
2
          Strategic Rail Authority
2
          Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
2
          Health Development Agency (Department of Health)
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
28

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
25.2-2.3.01
Spain, Italy & Germany
8
2
Inquiry into Walking in Towns and Cities
£22,355.43
10-11.5.01
Stockholm
0
2*
Meeting of EU Environment Committees
£1,983.77

*  Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
15.1.01
Leeds & Wakefield
3
2
Inquiry into Walking in Towns and Cities
£1,294.71


Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: Recent Events on the Railway
17
13.12.00
54
£8.80
Not applicable
Second Report: Development on, or affecting, the Flood Plain
64-I
20.12.00
23
£5.80
Cm 5073, published 1.3.01
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Development on, or affecting, the Flood Plain
64-II
23.3.01
66
£10.60
Not applicable
Third Report: Developments at National Air Traffic Services
121
17.1.01
71
£10.60
Cm 5085, published 13.6.01
Fourth Report: Inland Waterways
317-I
14.3.01
37
£8.00
Cm 5149, published 19.6.01
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Development on, or affecting, the Flood Plain
317-II
5.4.01
274
£22.00
Not applicable
Fifth Report: Delivering Sustainable Waste Management
36-I
21.3.01
93
£13.00
Awaited
Seventh Report: The Transport-related Executive Agencies of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
122-I
28.3.00
23
£5.80
Cm 5148, published 19.6.01
Sixth Report: Rail Investment: Renewal, Maintenance and Development of the National Rail Network
18-I
29.3.01
54
£9.70
Awaited
Eighth Report: Cemeteries
91-I
2.4.01
125
£15.20
Awaited
Ninth Report: Draft Water Bill
145-I
3.4.01
137
£15.90
Awaited
Tenth Report: Alleged misconduct affecting a witness before the Environment Sub-committee
380
19.4.01
21
£5.80
Not applicable
Eleventh Report: Walking in Towns and Cities
167-I
30.6.01
60
£11.00
Awaited
Memoranda of Evidence: Walking in Towns and Cities
167-II
2.2.01
118
£14.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Walking in Towns and Cities
167-III
29.6.01
214
£20.50
Not applicable
First Special Report: Annual Report of the Work of the Committee to the Liaison Committee
65
18.1.01
38
£7.70
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government and Commission for Integrated Transport Responses to the Nineteenth Report of the Committee in Session 1999-2000: The Work of the Commission for Integrated Transport
262
8.3.01
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Rural White Paper
45-i
10.5.01
15
£4.75
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Urban White Paper
166-i
11.5.01
14
£4.00
Not applicable


Government replies to Reports for Session 1999-2000
Reply to the Committee's Twentieth Report: UK Biodiversity, published as Cm 5072 (21.5.01).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 3.5.01 as HC 776, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 485, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was debated in the House:

    Sixteenth Report, Session 1999-2000, The Implications of the European Commission Ruling on Gap Funding Schemes for Urban Regeneration in England, on an Estimates Day under Standing Order No. 54, 19.12.00.
Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 9 of the Committee's 15 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Rural White Paper
1
Urban White Paper
1
Walking in Towns and Cities
6
Alleged misconduct affecting a witness before the Environment Sub-committee
1
Total
9




 
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