Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

16. Foreign Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 23 July 1997.
It had 12 Members and held 25 meetings. This included 6 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).



Members
Meetings attended

Anderson, Mr Donald (Chairman)
18
Abbott, Ms Diane
1
Chidgey, Mr David
7 (including 1 CM)
Emery, Sir Peter
12
Godman, Dr Norman
8 (including 4 CM)
Illsley, Mr Eric
11
Mackinlay, Mr Andrew
15
Madel, Sir David
18
Maples, Mr John
17 (including 1 CM)
Rowlands, Mr Ted
21 (including 6 CM)
Stanley, Sir John
23 (including 5 CM)
Starkey, Dr Phyllis
23 (including 6 CM)

Overall attendance:
69.4 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %

Staff

    Clerk of the Committee: Mr Paul Silk, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (until 28.2.01); Mr Steve Priestley, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (from 1.3.01) .
Second Clerk: Mr Steven Mark, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
    Committee Assistant: Mr James Davies, Senior Executive Officer (Band B2), assisted by Miss Ana Ferreira, Senior Office Clerk (Band D1).
Committee Specialist: Mr Daniel Thornton (Band B1) (until 30.3.01).
    Secretary: Mrs Sheryl Bertasius, Secretary (Band C).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Richard Caplin.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers
2
          Other Ministers
3
Members of the House of Lords
1
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
     Foreign and Commonwealth Office
17
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
5
     comprising: BBC World Service
3
British Council
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
19



Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
15-18.1.01
Riga and Stockholm
8
2
Work in preparation for the Swedish presidency of the EU
£16,500
(estimated outturn)
30.1-1-2.01
Stockholm
1*
1
Meeting of Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees of Parliaments of EU Member States, Applicant States and of the European Parliament
£1,916.08
5-8-2.01
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
9
2
Inquiry into Government Policy toward the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the wider region following the fall of Milosevic

£19,800
(estimated outturn)
13-14.5.01
The Hague
1*
0
Seminar on the Parliamentary Dimension of the New European Security and Defence Policy
£900
(estimated outturn)

*  Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions
None.

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: Human Rights Annual Report 2000
79
30.1.01
35
£8.80
Cm 5129, 4.4.01
Second Report: Iran: Interim Report
80
13.2.01
55
£9.70
Not applicable
Third Report: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 1999 and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny*
212
14.3.01
78
£11.50
Awaited
Fourth Report: Government Policy towards the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the wider region following the fall of Milosevic
246
27.3.01
174
£18.00
Awaited
Fifth Report: European Union Enlargement and Post Nice Follow-up
318
10.4.01
85
£12.50
Awaited
Sixth Report: Gibraltar
319
11.4.01
31
£7.00
Awaited
Seventh Report: Draft Export Control and Non-Proliferation Bill*
445
9.5.01
97
£13.60
Awaited
Eighth Report: Human Rights Annual Report 2000: Follow-up to Government Response
469
10.5.01
10
£3.70
Awaited
Ninth Report: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2001
428
10.5.01
74
£11.50
Awaited
First Special Report: Work of the Committee During the Present Parliament: A Progress Report
78
9.1.01
62
£10.30
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Correspondence with the Foreign Secretary in relation to the Sierra Leone Report
353
21.3.01
5
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: British Council and BBC World Service
210-i
19.4.01
43
£8.80
Not applicable

* Joint publication with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees.

Government replies to Reports for Session 1999-2000
Reply to the Committee's Tenth Report: China, published as Cm 5038 (5.2.01).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 1.1.01 as HC 1053, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 1085, Session 2000-01.

Divisions

Date
Subject
23.1.01
Two, on amendments proposed to Chairman's draft Report on Human Rights Annual Report 2000.
13.3.01
One, on a Motion to write to the Foreign Secretary in relation to Sierra Leone.
10.4.01
One, on a Motion on the appointment of a Committee Specialist.

Debates
The following Report was debated in the House:

    Eighth Report, Session 1999-2000, Weapons of Mass Destruction, on an Estimates Day under S.O. No. 54, 15.3.01
The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in Westminster Hall:

    Fifth Report, Session 1999-2000, Annual Reports of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and British Trade International 2000, 15.12.00
Oral Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 12 of the Committee's 25 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Human Rights Annual Report
1
Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 1999 and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny*
1
Government Policy towards the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the wider region following the fall of Milosevic
3
European Union Enlargement and Post Nice Follow-up
1
Gibraltar
1
Draft Export Control and Non-Proliferation Bill*
2
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2001
2
British Council and BBC World Service
1
Total
12

* Jointly with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees.


 
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