Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


6. Culture, Media and Sport

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 37 Meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Kaufman, Mr Gerald (Chairman from 19.7.01)
37
Bryant, Mr Chris
34
Doran, Mr Frank
34
Fabricant, Michael
35
Flook, Mr Adrian
27
Keen, Alan
34
Kirkbride, Miss Julie
28
McKenna, Rosemary
24
Shipley, Ms Debra
25
Thurso, John
31
Wyatt, Derek
31

Overall Attendance:
83.5 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %


Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Fergus Reid, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2)
Second Clerk: Mr Richard Cooke (until 19.10.01), Assistant Clerk (Band A3); Miss Nerys Welfoot (from 9.10.01 until 31.10.02), Assistant Clerk (Band A3); Miss Libby Davidson (from 1.11.02), Assistant Clerk (Band A3)
Committee Assistant: Miss Anita Fuki, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Miss Louise Sargent (until 7.12.01), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1); Miss Fiona Mearns (from 10.12.01), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Bill Galston and Professor David Miers.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
     Number of appearances by:
          Cabinet Ministers
6
          Other Ministers
4
     Member of the House of Lords
1
     Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
     Department of Culture, Media and Sport
5
     Other departments:
1
     Comprising: Department of Trade and Industry
1
Public Bodies and non-ministerial departments comprising:
     Arts Council
4
     BBC
10
     British Museum
2
     British Tourist Authority
3
     Broadcasting Standards Commission
1
     Cadw
2
     Channel 4 Television
3
     English Heritage
2
     English Tourism Council
2
     Gaming Board for Great Britain
3
     Heritage Lottery Fund
2
     Historic Scotland
1
     Independent Television Commission
1
     Local Government Association
4
     National Consumer Council
2
     National Lottery Commission
2
     Natural History Museum
3
     OFTEL
1
     Radio Authority
1
     Radiocommunications Agency
1
     Sport England
8
     Sheffield City Council
1
     UK Athletics
4
     UK Sport
2
Other witnesses
79


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
7-12.4.02USA - Silicon Valley,
Las Vegas, Washington
8
2
Inquiries into Communications and Gambling
£51,930.57
(estimated outturn)


Visits to European Institutions
None.

UK Visits

eDestination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
12-13.2.02Stratford-upon-Avon
9
4
Inquiry into Arts Development
£2,939.69
25.2.02Laban Dance Centre, Deptford
5
2
Inquiry into Arts Development
£169.19
27-28.2.02Manchester
4
2
To view preparations for the 2002 Commonwealth Games
£2,077.63
14.3.02South Bank Centre
5
2
Inquiry into Arts Development
£91.17
18-19.6.02Aberdeen
8
3
Inquiry into Gambling
£5,190.07
25-26.7.02Manchester
10
2
To view the Opening Ceremony of Commonwealth Games
£4,711.65
23-24.8.02Edinburgh
1A
0
Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival
£855.75
29.10.02Natural History Museum
4
4
Inquiry into Museums
£95.21
7.11.02British Museum
3
4
Inquiry into Museums
£103.00
(estimated outturn)

A  Travel in a representative capacity
Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (2001-02)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Unpicking the Lock: The World Athletics Championships in the UK
264
20.11.01
181
£18.50
Cm 5448, published 1.2.02
Second Report: Testing the Waters: the Sport of Swimming
418
15.1.02
161
£18.50
Cm 5480, published 1.3.02
Third Report: Arts Development
489-I
26.3.02
37
£9.00
Cm 5533,
published 11.6.02
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Arts Development
489-II
26.3.02
216
£20.50
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Communications
539-I
1.5.02
48
£10.00
Cm 5554,
published 20.7.02
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Communications
539-II
1.5.02
400
£28.50
Not applicable
Fifth Report: Revisiting the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games
842
23.5.02
33
£9.50
Cm 5576,
published 19.7.02
Sixth Report: Wembley National Stadium Project
843-I
10.7.02
32
£7.50
Cm 5582,
published 24.7.02
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Wembley National Stadium Project
843-II
11.7.02
123
£14.50
Not applicable
Memoranda of Evidence: Wembley National Project
843
21.5.02
24
£7.50
Not applicable
Seventh Report: The Government's Proposals for Gambling: Nothing to Lose?
827-I
24.7.02
50
£11.00
Cm 5622,
published 17.9.02
Memoranda of Evidence: Gambling
827-II
11.6.02
70
£12.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Government's Proposals for Gambling: Nothing to Lose?
827-III
24.7.02
156
£16.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: UK Heritage and Conservation
811-i
11.11.02
30
£7.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: BBC Report and Accounts 2001-02
1111-i
11.11.02
16
£5.50
Not applicable


Government replies to Reports for Session 2000-01
Reply to the previous Committee's First Report: The Operation of the National Lottery, published as Cm 5270 (17.10.01).

Reply to the previous Committee's Second Report: The Communications White Paper, published as Cm 5316 (13.10.01).

Reply to the previous Committee's Third Report: Staging International Sporting Events, published as Cm 5288 (22.10.01).

Reply to the previous Committee's Fourth Report: Tourism - The Hidden Giant - and Foot and Mouth, published as Cm 5279 (17.10.01).

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the previous Committee for Session 2000-01 were published on 11.5.01 as HC 482, Session 2000-01. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2001-02 will be published as HC 1313, Session 2001-02

Divisions
None.

Debates
The following Report was debated in the House:
First Report, Session 2001-02, Unpicking the Lock: The World Athletics Championships in the UK, on an Estimates Day, under Standing Order No. 54, 11.12.02
The following publications were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debates in the House:
First Report, Session 2000-01, The Operation of the National Lottery, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House, 1.3.02
Volume of Memoranda (HC 827-II, Session 2001-02), and Minutes of Evidence 11 and 25 June and 2 July 2002, on Gambling (HC 827-i, ii and iii), on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the House, 5.7.02

Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 22 of the Committee's 37 Meetings. On 1 occasion evidence was taken wholly in private.

Inquiry
Number of oral evidence sessions
Arts Development
2
BBC Report and Accounts 2001-02
1
Communications
7
Gambling
3
Heritage & Conservation
1
Museums*
1
Picketts Lock
2
The Sport of Swimming
1
Tourism*
1
Wembley National Stadium Project
3
Total
22


* The Committee did not complete these inquiries in Session 2001-02.



 
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