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
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|
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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