Sessional Returns 2000-01 - Contents


10. SELECT COMMITTEES

B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC

38. Welsh Affairs

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



Members
Meetings attended

Jones, Mr Martyn (Chairman)
13
Caton, Mr Martin
11
Edwards, Mr Huw
9
Lewis, Dr Julian
2
Livsey, Mr Richard
8
Llwyd, Mr Elfyn
11
Morgan, Ms Julie
9
Paterson, Mr Owen
2
Ruane, Mr Chris
11
Smith, Mr John P
3
Williams, Mrs Betty
12

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

Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Tom Healey, Senior Clerk (Band A 2).
Committee Assistant: Mr Paul Derrett, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2).

    Secretary: Ms Carys Thomas (Band D) (until 5.1.01); Ms Rowena Macdonald (temporary) (from 8.1.01 until 9.2.01); Mrs Amanda Waller (Band D) (from 12.2.01).
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Ms Rachel Ashworth, Dr Denis Balsom, Mr Mark Clatworthy, Professor Stuart Cole, Professor Phillip Cooke, Mr Mark Drakeford, Mr Richard Edwards, Ms Jane Hutt, Professor Ross McKay, Professor Terry Marsden, Mr Brian Morgan and Mr Hywel Williams.

Witnesses
  
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
  
     Number of appearances by:
  
          Cabinet Ministers
1
          Other Ministers
2
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
  
          Wales Office
1
          other departments
2
     comprising: Department of Culture Media and Sport
2
          executive agencies
3
               comprising: British Trade International
3
          public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
17
               comprising: BBC
3
               British Council
3
               British Tourist Authority
3
               Post Office
3
S4C
3
               UK Sport
2
     Appearances by other witnesses
18

Overseas Visits
None.

Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
18.12.00
Cardiff
7
2
Inquiry into Wales in the World: the role of the UK Government in promoting Wales abroad
£854.16
15-16.1.01
Cardiff
8
5AB
Inquiries into Social Exclusion in Wales and Wales in the World: the role of the UK Government in promoting Wales abroad.
Meeting with the Panel of Committee Chairs of the National Assembly for Wales
£2,864.54
29-30.1.01
Conwy, Llandudno, Betws-y-Coed, and Llangollen
5
3B
Inquiry into Wales in the World: the role of the UK Government in promoting Wales abroad
£2,888.06
26-27.3.01
Conwy, Bangor, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfon and Portmerion
7
3
Inquiry into Wales in the World: the role of the UK Government in promoting Wales abroad
£2,899.48
30.4.01-1.5.01
HMP & YOI Pucklechurch and HMP & YOI Eastfield Park
8
3
Inquiry into Young offenders held outside of Wales
£1,832.25


A  Includes 1 specialist adviser
B  Includes 1 shorthand writer

Reports and Minutes of Evidence  

Title
HC No.
(2000-01)
Date of
publication
No. of
pages
Sale price
Government
reply
First Report: Wales in the World: the role of the UK Government in promoting Wales abroad
38
27.3.01
202
£19.50
Awaited
Second Report: Welsh young offenders held outside Wales: Interim Report and proposals for further inquiry
511
11.5.01
17
£5.80
Not required
First Special Report: The work of the Committee since Devolution
81
21.12.00
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Second Special Report: The Government response to the Third Report of the Committee (Session 1999-2000) Social Exclusion in Wales
378
4.4.01
30
£6.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Job losses in the steel industry in Wales
295-i
4.4.01
36
£8.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Job losses in the steel industry in Wales
295-ii
19.6.01
56
£9.70
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence with Appendices: Post Office closures in Wales
359
4.4.01
32
£8.00
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings for Session 1999-2000 were published as HC 801, Session 1999-2000, 13.12.00. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 were published as HC 508, Session 2000-01.

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was referred to in a Motion moved on an Opposition Day:

    Third Report, Session 1999-2000, Social Exclusion in Wales, 5.2.01.  

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

Inquiry
No. of oral evidence sessions
Wales in the World: the role of the UK Government in promoting Wales abroad
5‡
Job losses in the steel industry in Wales
2
Post Office closures in Wales
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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