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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