Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

24. Northern Ireland Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 28 July 1997.
It had 13 Members and held 16 meetings.



Members
Meetings attended

Brooke, Mr Peter (Chairman)
16
Barnes, Mr Harry
16
Beggs, Mr Roy
16
Burgon, Mr Colin
2
Clarke, Mr Tony
13
Grogan, Mr John
11
Hunter, Mr Andrew
11
McCabe, Mr Stephen
10
McGrady, Mr Eddie
6
Palmer, Dr Nick
5
Pound, Mr Stephen
12
Robinson, Mr Peter
6
Thompson, Mr William
13

Overall attendance:
65.9 %
Turnover of membership during the Session
0%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Dr Christopher Ward, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2)
Committee Assistant: Mr Andy Hubner, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Mrs Yvonne Platt, Secretary (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session: Professor Tony Bottoms and Dr Andrew Coyle.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Ministers other than Cabinet Ministers
2
Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
1
     Members of Parliament
1
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
1
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          Northern Ireland Office
7
          other departments comprising:
  
Lord Chancellor's Department
2
Northern Ireland Departments
1
     executive agencies
  
          comprising: Compensation Agency
1
     public bodies, independent statutory bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
  
Parades Commission
6
     Appearances by other witnesses
14
Overseas Visits
  

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
21-25.1.01
Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban, South Africa
 
7
2
Inquiry into Relocation following Paramilitary Intimidation
£22,884.47


UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
6-7.2.01
Belfast
7
3*
Inquiries into the Parades Commission and Relocation following Paramilitary Intimidation
£3,585.13
11.4.01
Belfast
9
2
Publication of Second and Third Reports
£2,489.47


*  Includes 1 Shorthand Writer

Visits to European Institutions
None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: The Northern Ireland
Prison Service
263
28.2.01
53
£9.70
Received 11.4.01: Published as Second Special Report, Session 2000-01
Second Report: The Parades
Commission
Volume I: Report
Volume II: Minutes of Evidence and
Appendice


120-I
120-II


11.4.01
19.7.01


36
316


£8.00
£23.50


Awaited
Not applicable
Third Report: Relocation following
paramilitary intimidation
Volume I: Report
Volume II: Minutes of Evidence and
Appendices


59-I
59-II


11.4.01
19.7.01


25
112


£6.50
£14.50


Awaited
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Legal Aid in
Northern Ireland
444
13.7.01
85
£14.5
Awaited
Fifth Report: Miscellaneous
Financial Matters and the
Government's Response to the
Committee's Third Report, Session
1999-2000
458
29.6.01
51
£11.00
Awaited
Sixth Report: The Parades
Commission - Supplementary Report
521
11.5.01
7
£2.55
Not required
First Special Report: Annual Report
for Session 1999-2000
148
6.2.01
24
£5.50
Received 26.4.01: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2000-01
Second Special Report: Government
Response to the First Report of the
Committee, Session 2000-01 (HC
263) The Northern Ireland Prison
Service
443
1.5.01
6
£2.25
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Response of
the Northern Ireland Executive to the
Fourth and Fifth Reports of Session
1999-2000
522
14.5.01
4
£1.45
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Government
Response to the Committee's First
Special Report, Session 2000-01 and
the Work of the Committee in Session
2000-01
523
14.5.01
8
£2.25
Awaited

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 26.6.01as HC 789, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 were published as HC 496, Session 2000-01, 27.6.01.

Divisions

Date
Subject
28.3.01
One, on an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report on the Parades Commission

Debates

The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

Second Report, Session 1997-98, Electoral Malpractice in Northern Ireland, HC 316, 29.3.01

Oral Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 11 of the Committee's 16 meetings. On one of these occasions evidence was taken wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Parades Commission
6†
Relocation following Paramilitary Intimidation
4†
Legal Aid in Northern Ireland
1
Total
11

The Committee also took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1999-2000; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 100 (1999-2000))




 
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