Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

31. Social Security

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

  


Members
Meetings attended

Kirkwood, Mr Archy (Chairman)
11
Buck, Ms Karen
10
Crausby, Mr David
3
Dismore, Mr Andrew
8
Humble, Mrs Joan
10
King, Mr Andy
7
Leigh, Mr Edward (discharged, 13.12.00)
1
Naysmith, Dr Doug
11
Robertson, Mr Laurie
5
Swayne, Mr Desmond
2
Thomas, Mr Gareth
8
Winterton, Mrs Ann (added, 13.12.00)
5

Overall attendance:
66.9%
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18%

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Philip Moon, Deputy Principal Clerk (Band 2).
Second Clerk: Miss Kate Emms, Senior Clerk (Band A2).
Committee Specialist: Ms Janet Allbeson (Band B1).
Committee Assistant: Ms Diane Nelson, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).
Secretary: Miss Leslie Young, Secretary (Band D1).

Specialist Advisers during the Session
Ms Ruth Hancock, Ms Sarah Rowe and Professor Steve Wilcox.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
Cabinet Ministers
1
     Other Ministers
1
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
     Department of Social Security
3
     other departments
3
comprising: HM Treasury
1
Inland Revenue
2
executive agencies
4
comprising: Benefits Agency
4
     public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
5
          comprising: Independent Review Service
3
The Appeals Service
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
16

Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
7-8.2.01
Disability and Carers Benefits Directorate, Blackpool and Invalid Care Allowance Unit, Preston
5
3
Briefings on the work of two units of the Benefits Agency
£2,950.20
15.2.01
Advice Centres and Benefits Office, North Kensington
3
3
Inquiry into the Social Fund
£155.27



Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
2000-01
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: Inherited SERPS
215
13.2.01
10
£4.30
Not required
Second Report: Integrated Child Credit
72
22.3.01
198
£19.50
Awaited
Third Report: The Social Fund
232
4.4.01
262
£22.00
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence: Social Security Appeals
435-i
13.6.01
24
£6.20
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: DSS Departmental Report
457-i
17.5.01
18
£4.75
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 were published on 9.2.01 as HC 795, Session 1999-2000. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 will be published as HC 502, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

Sixth Report, Session 1999-2000, Housing Benefit, 27.7.01

Oral Evidence

Oral evidence was taken at 8 of the Committee's 11 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Integrated Child Credit‡
2
The Social Fund
4
Social Security Appeals
1
DSS Departmental Report
1
Total
8

‡  The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1999-2000: figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC100 (1999-2000))


 
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