Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

18. Home Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 14 meetings.



Members
Meetings attended

Corbett, Mr Robin (Chairman)
13
Cawsey, Mr Ian
4
Dean, Mrs Janet
10
Fabricant, Mr Michael
3
Howarth, Mr Gerald
12
Linton, Mr Martin
11
Malins, Mr Humfrey
5
Russell, Mr Bob
7
Singh, Mr Marsha
7
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul
7
Winnick, Mr David
12

Overall attendance:
59.1 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %

Staff
Committee Clerk: Mr Andrew Kennon, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Miss Tracey Garratty, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Assistant: Mr Steve Barrett, Senior Executive Officer (Band B1).
Secretary: Liz Booth, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Adviser during the Session
Mr Angus McIntosh QPM .

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers
1
          Other Ministers
1
          Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
1
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
  
          Home Office
1
          Lord Chancellor's Department
1
          executive agencies
3
               comprising: Criminal Records Bureau
1
               Prison Service Agency
2
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
2
               comprising: Office of the Data Protection Registrar
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
7


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
21-23.2.01
Stockholm
1*
1
Swedish Parliament seminar on Asylum and Migration
£2,259.94

* Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
20-21.3.01
European Parliament, Brussels
2*
1
Conference organised by the EP Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs
£1,407.41

*Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
30.1.01
New Scotland Yard
7
3
Briefing
£37.81
6.3.01
Feltham Young Offenders Institute
6
2
Inquiry into Young Offenders Institutions
£113.60
1.5.01
Oxford, Aylesbury and Berkhamsted
4
2
Inquiry into Youth Shelters
£465.40



Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: Border Controls
163-I
31.1.01
66
£10.60
Received 26.3.01:
published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Border Controls
163-II
31.1.01
177
£18.00
Not applicable
Second Report: Criminal Records Bureau
227
28.3.01
100
£13.60
Received 1.5.01:
published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2000-01
First Special Report: Government Reply to the Fourth Report, Session 1999-2000: Blantyre House Prison
139
17.1.01
11
£3.40
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Response to the Police Foundation's Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Chairman: Dame Ruth Runciman DBE)
226
7.2.01
20
£4.75
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Work of the Committee in the 1997 Parliament
248
26.2.01
44
£8.50
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Reply to the First Report, Session 2000-01: Border Controls
375
28.3.01
15
£4.00
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: Government Reply to the Second Report, Session 2000-01: Criminal Records Bureau
467
8.5.01
7
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Lord Chancellor's Department
164-i
8.3.01
19
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Prison Service
249-i
21.3.01
13
£4.00
Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
None.

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 29.12.00 as HC 783, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 491, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

First Report, Session 2000-01, Border Controls, and the Government's response thereto, 3.5.01

Oral Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 4 of the Committee's 14 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Criminal Records Bureau
3
Miscellaneous
2
Total
5




 
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