Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

21. International Development

The Committee was nominated on 14 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 27 meetings. These included 6 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees and 1 held concurrently with the Agriculture and European Scrutiny Committees (abbreviated to 'CM' in the attendance table below).



Members
Meetings attended

Wells, Mr Bowen (Chairman)
22 (incl. 2 CM)
Clwyd, Ann
20 (incl. 4 CM)
Colman, Mr Tony
17 (incl. 3 CM)
Follett, Barbara
9 (incl. 1 CM)
Jones, Mr Nigel
1
Khabra, Mr Piara S
16 (incl. 6 CM)
King, Ms Oona
7
Kingham, Ms Tess
14 (incl. 5 CM)
Robathan, Mr Andrew
18
Rowe, Mr Andrew
25 (incl. 5 CM)
Worthington, Mr Tony
22 (incl. 5 CM)

Overall attendance:
69.1%
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Yusef Azad, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (until 4.5.01).
Second Clerk: Mr Gordon Clarke, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Specialist: Mr William Benson (Band B2).
Committee Assistant: Mr Ian Thomson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Lisette Pelletier, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Mr Simon Wright.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers
5
          Other Ministers
2
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          Department for International Development
4
          other departments
8
comprising:
  
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
3
Home Office
1
Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food
2
Department of Trade and Industry
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
33

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
3-16.2.01
Vietnam and Cambodia
8
2
To examine the delivery of DFID-funded development activity
£58,000
(estimated outturn)
5-7.4.01
Paris
1*
0
To attend meeting of the World Bank MPs Steering Committee
Nil

* 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: The Globalisation White Paper
208
14.3.01
135
£15.90
Received 4.5.01: Published as Third Special Report, HC 470, 9.5.01
Second Report: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 1999 and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny*
212
14.3.01
78
£11.50
Awaited
Third Report: HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Social and Economic Development
354-I
29.3.01
97
£13.60
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Social and Economic Development
354-II
29.3.01
309
£22.70
Not applicable
Fifth Report: ECGD, Developmental Issues and the Ilisu Dam: Further Report
395
3.4.01
16
£5.10
Received 9.5.01: Published as Fourth Special Report, HC 531, 11.5.01
Fourth Report: Corruption
39-I
4.4.01
76
£11.50
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Corruption
39-II
5.4.01
369
£26.50
Not applicable
Sixth Report: Draft Export Control and Non-Proliferation Bill*
445
9.5.01
97
£13.60
Awaited
First Special Report: The Work of the International Development Committee 1997-2000
82
24.1.01
43
£8.50
Not required
Second Special Report: Government Response to the Tenth Report from the Committee, Session 1999-2000: After SeattleThe World Trade Organisation and Developing Countries
218
9.2.01
12
£3.40
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the First Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: The Globalisation White Paper
470
9.5.01
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government Response to the Fifth Report from the Committee, Session 2000-01: ECGD, Developmental Issues and the Ilisu Dam: Further Report
531
11.5.01
4
£2.25
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Market Access for Least Developed Countries and the Sugar Regime
93
20.2.01
40
£8.80
Not applicable

§The Committee also received memoranda on the International Development Bill and the Replenishment of the Asian Development Fund and the Caribbean Development Bank's Special Development Fund. These were reported to the House, but were not printed. Copies were placed in the House of Commons Library and the House of Lords Record Office
*Joint publication with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees
Joint publication with the Agriculture and European Scrutiny Committees

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 3.5.01as HC 785, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 493, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

    Tenth Report, Session 1999-2000, HC 227, After Seattle — The World Trade Organisation and Developing Countries, and First Report, Session 2000-01, HC 208, The Globalisation White Paper, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House (International Development White Paper — Making Globalisation Work for the Poor (Cm 5006)), 3.5.01
The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to an Adjournment Debate in Westminster Hall:

    Third Report, Session 2000-01, HC 354, HIV/AIDS: The Impact on Social and Economic Development, 1.5.01
Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 12 of the Committee's 27 meetings. On 4 of these occasions evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
The Globalisation White Paper
1
Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 1999 and Parliamentary Prior Scrutiny*
1
Corruption‡
7
Draft Export Control and Non-Proliferation Bill*
2
Market Access for Least Developed Countries and the Sugar Regime§
1
Total
12

The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1999-2000; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC100 (1999-2000))
*Jointly with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees
§Jointly with the Agriculture and European Scrutiny Committees




 
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