Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

13. Environmental Audit

The Committee was nominated on 12 November 1997.
It had 16 Members and held 7 meetings.


Members
Meetings attended

Horam, Mr John (Chairman)
7
Body, Sir Richard
1
Brinton, Mrs Helen
5
Chaytor, Mr David
7
Gerrard, Mr Neil
5
Grieve, Mr Dominic
5
Jones, Mr Jon Owen
4
Keetch, Mr Paul
1
Loughton, Mr Tim
4
1Meacher, Mr Michael
0
Russell, Ms Christine
3
Savidge, Mr Malcolm
4
Sawford, Mr Phil
0
Shaw, Mr Jonathan
1
Thomas, Mr Simon
5
Walley, Joan
6


1The Minister for the Environment has ex officio membership of the Committee

2Overall attendance:
51.8 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %


2Taking into account the Minister's position, actual overall attendance in 2000-01 was 55.2%

Staff

    Clerk of the Committee: Mr Fergus Reid, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (Senior Clerk (Band A2)until 28.2.01).
    Committee Specialists: Mr Eric Lewis (seconded from the National Audit Office) (Grade 7); Miss Emma Downing (seconded from the Library) (Band A3).
Committee Assistant: Ms Tracy Herd, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Mrs Melanie Barklem, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Duncan Brack, Professor Paul Ekins, Mr Paul Herrington, Mr Chris Hewett, Ms Julie Hill, Professor Gerald Manners, Mr Alastair Fulton, Mr Alister Scott, Mr Neil Summerton and Mr David Wilkinson.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers
1
          Other Ministers
3
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          Government departments
7
          comprising:
  
Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
4
HM Treasury
3
     public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
3
          comprising:
  
          Office of Water Services (Ofwat)
3
     Appearances by other witnesses
10

Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
24.1.01
European Parliament and European Commission, Brussels
11
3
Meetings with the Environment Commissioner and the European Parliament Environment Committee
£5,266.74

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: Environmental Audit: the first parliament
67-I
9.1.01
59
£9.70
Cm 5098, published 27.3.01
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
67-II
9.1.01
106
£13.70
Not applicable
Second Report: The Pre-Budget Report 2000:fuelling the debate
71-I
5.3.01
53
£9.70
Received 8.5.01
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices
71-II
5.3.01
108
£13.60
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Water Prices and the Environment: Government response and follow-up
290-i
4.4.01
51
£9.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Budget 2001
333-i
3.5.01
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Climate Change: COP6
357-i
10.5.01
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: Renewable Energy
334
9.5.01
119
£14.70
Not applicable


Government replies to Reports for Session 1999-2000
Reply to the Committee's First Report: EU Policy and the Environment: An agenda for the Helsinki Summit, published as HC 68 (8.1.01).

Reply to the Committee's Second Report: World Trade and Sustainable Development: An agenda for the Seattle Summit, published as HC 69 (8.1.01).

Reply to the Committee's Third Report: Comprehensive Spending Review: Government response and follow-up, published as HC 70 (8.1.01).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 14.2.01 as HC 777, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as
HC 486, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

    Sixth Report, Session 1998-99,Greening Government Initiative 1999, Fifth Report, Session 1999-2000, Greening Government Initiative: first annual report from the Green Ministers Committee; and the joint Government response to the Reports (Cm 4819), 18.1.01.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 6 of the Committee's 7 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Pre-Budget 2000
3
Water prices and the environment: follow-up
1
Climate Change: COP6
1
Budget 2001
1
Total
6




 
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