Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

14. European Scrutiny

The Committee was nominated on 17 November 1998.
It had 16 Members and held 14 meetings. This included 1 meeting held concurrently with the Agriculture and International Development Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).



Members
Meetings attended

Hood, Mr Jimmy (Chairman)
10 (including 1 CM)
Bradshaw, Mr Ben
2 (including 1 CM)
Breed, Mr Roger
7 (including 1 CM)
Casale, Mr Roger
7 (including 1 CM)
Cash, Mr William
9
Connarty, Mr Michael
9
Dobbin, Mr Jim
11 (including 1 CM)
Ewing, Mrs Margaret
0
Hall, Mr Patrick
4 (including 1 CM)
Hendrick, Mr Mark (added 25.1.01)
7
Jones, Ms Jenny
8 (including 1 CM)
McIntosh, Miss Anne
11 (including 1 CM)
Palmer, Dr Nick (discharged 25.1.01)
0
Rammell, Mr Bill
6
Robertson, Mr Laurence
8 (including 1 CM)
Steen, Mr Anthony
6

Overall attendance:
50.8 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
6 %

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Dorian Gerhold, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2)
Second Clerk: Mrs Susan Craig, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (to 31.12.00).

    Clerk/Advisers: Miss Josy Eldred, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr David Griffiths, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr Clive Wilson, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (to 31.1.01); Mrs Rosemary Melling CBE, Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr Mick Hillyard, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (seconded from the Library) (from 1.2.01).
    Legal Advisers: Mr Michael Carpenter, Counsel to the Speaker (European Legislation &c) (Senior Structure Band 3); Ms Kemi Alagbala, Assistant Legal Adviser (Band B1).
    Committee Assistant: Miss Karen McClelland, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2); assisted by Mr Brian Dye, Chief Office Clerk (Band C); Mr Allen Mitchell, Senior Office Clerk, (Band D1).
    Secretaries: Mrs Keely Bishop, Secretary (Band D1); Miss Susan Ramsay, Secretary (Band D1); Ms Fiona Mearns, Secretary (Band D1) (to 3.1.01); Miss Jennifer Kelly, Secretary (Band D1); and Miss Rowena MacDonald (Band D1) (from 4.4.01) (to 11.5.01).

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Other Ministers
3
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
2
          Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1
Department of Trade and Industry
2
Overseas Visits
  


Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
28-30.1.01
Stockholm
9
3
Work in preparation for the Swedish Presidency of EU
£13,479.15
8-9.4.01
Stockholm
1*
1
Working Group of European Affairs Committees
£1,780.95
2-3.5.01
Western European Union, Berlin
1*
1
Colloquy on European security and defence
£2,095.49

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
20.3.01
European Parliament, Brussels
1*
1
Meeting of the European Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee
£740.00
25-27.3.01
European Institutions, Brussels
5
3
Meetings with European Commission officials
£5,640.00
(estimated outturn)

*  Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
16.3.01
Belfast
1*
1
Second meeting of the Chairs of UK
European Committees
£828.58


* Travel in a representative capacity

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply#
First Report
28-i
29.12.00
54
£9.70
  
Second Report
28-ii
26.1.00
36
£8.00
  
Third Report
28-iii
6.2.01
56
£9.70
  
Minutes of Evidence: Market access for least developed countries and the sugar regime*
93
20.2.01
40
£8.80
  
Minutes of Evidence: Inter- Governmental Conference 2000
119
20.2.01
12
£4.00
  
Fourth Report
28-iv
20.2.01
52
£9.70
  
Fifth Report
28-v
21.2.01
79
£11.50
  
Sixth Report
28-vi
2.3.01
60
£9.70
  
Seventh Report
28-vii
15.3.01
84
£11.50
  
Eighth Report
28-viii
28.3.01
104
£13.60
  
Ninth Report
28-ix
30.3.01
52
£9.70
  
Tenth Report
28-x
6.4.01
48
£8.80
  
Eleventh Report
28-xi
12.4.01
53
£9.70
  
Twelfth Report
28-xii
2.5.01
52
£9.70
  
Thirteenth Report
28-xiii
14.5.01
75
£11.50
  

*Joint publication with the Agriculture and International Development Committees
#The Committee does not require formal Government replies to each Report, but reports Government responses on individual documents throughout the Session.

Government replies to Reports for Session 1999-2000
None: see footnote above.

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 1.1.01 as HC 779, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 were published on 14.5.01as HC 487, Session 2000-01.

Divisions

Date
Subject
10.1.01
One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report.
2.5.01
One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report.

Debates
None; proceedings take place on documents recommended by the Committee for further consideration, rather than on the Committee's Reports.

Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 2 of the Committee's 14 meetings. On neither of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Market access for least developed countries and the sugar regime
1
Inter-Governmental Conference 2000
1
Total
2




 
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