9. Education and Skills
The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.
It had 11 Members and held 50 Meetings.
|
Members | Meetings
attended
|
|
Sheerman, Mr Barry (Chairman from 18.7.01) |
48 |
Baron, Mr John (added 12.11.01) | 30
|
Chaytor, Mr David | 46
|
Davey, Valerie | 50
|
Ennis, Jeff | 44
|
Holmes, Paul | 46
|
Munn, Ms Meg | 45
|
Pollard, Mr Kerry | 32
|
Robertson, Mr Laurence (discharged 12.11.01)
| 1 |
Shaw, Mr Jonathan R. | 45
|
Simmonds, Mr Mark (added 3.12.01) | 26
|
Spink, Dr Robert (discharged 3.12.01) | 3
|
Turner, Mr Andrew | 37
|
|
Overall Attendance: | 82.2 %
|
Number of Members added: | 2
|
Number of Members discharged: | 2
|
Turnover of membership during the Session: |
18.2 % |
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Liam Laurence Smyth (until 31.10.02),
Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2); Mr David Lloyd
(from 1.11.02), Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band
2)
Second Clerk: Sian Jones (from 1.10.01), Assistant Clerk (A3)
Committee Specialist: Mr Robert Rees (until 8.3.02), (Band B1);
Sara Eustace (from 18.2.02), (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Mr Richard Dawson, Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2); Mrs Lisa Wrobel (from 29.10.02), Higher Executive Officer
(B2), assisted by Mr Darren Hackett (until 11.10.01), Chief Office
Clerk (Band C)
Secretary: Ms Claire Halls (until 7.12.01), Secretary Grade 3
(Band D1); Ms Pam Morris (until 29.10.01), Secretary Grade 3 (Band
D1); Deborah Jane (from 3.12.01 until 28.6.02), Secretary Grade
3 (Band D1); Mrs Catherine Close (from 1.7.02 until 8.10.02),
Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1); Catherine Jackson (from 30.9.02),
Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1) (from 30.10.02)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Janet Beer, Ms Louise Gardiner, Professor Alan Smithers,
Sir William Taylor CBE and Mr Tony Travers.
Witnesses | |
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by: |
|
Cabinet Ministers | 2
|
Other Ministers | 10
|
Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
| 4 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
Department for Education and Skills
| 5 |
public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
| 28 |
comprising: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
| 3 |
Learning and Skills Council |
4 |
Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED)
| 14 |
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
| 7 |
Appearances by other witnesses | 89
|
Overseas Visits | |
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
19-20.3.02 | Paris | 8
| 5 | Inquiry into Secondary Education
| £8,400.73 |
19-21.6.02 | Prato, ItalyA |
2 | 0
| European Access Network Annual Conference |
£2,969.15 |
14.10.02 | New Zealand | 8
| 2 | Inquiry into Secondary Education
| £38,626.00
(estimated outturn)
|
ATravel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
2-3.1.02 | Huddersfield A |
1 | 1
| North of England Education Conference |
£603.13 |
24.1.02 | Church House, Westminster A
| 1 | 0
| Education Conference | £188.00
|
16-20.9.02 | Birmingham | 10
| 4 | Key Stage 3
| £14,887.44 |
ATravel 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: The Work of OFSTED | 476
| 14.2.02 | 72
| £12.00 | Received 11.3.02: published as Second Special Report, Session 2001-02
|
Second Report: Standards and Quality in Education: The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools for 2000-01
| 699 | 30.4.02
| 57 | £11.00
| Received 24.6.02: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2001-02
|
Third Report: Individual Learning Accounts |
561-I | 1.5.02
| 62 | £12.00
| Received 24.6.02: published as Third Special Report, Session 2001-02
|
Third Report: Individual Learning Accounts |
561-II | 1.5.02
| 176 | £18.50
| Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Appointment of New HMCI |
830 | 2.7.02
| 46 | £12.00
| Received 31.7.02: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2001-02
|
Fifth Report: Library Resources for Higher Education
| 804 | 9.7.02
| 40 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Sixth Report: Post-16 Student Support | 445
| 11.7.02 | 178
| £18.50 | Awaited
|
First Special Report: Government's and OFSTED's Response to the Eighth Report from the Education and Employment Committee Session 2000-01: Standards and Quality in Education: The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools 1999-2000
| 215 | 20.7.01
| 11 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: The Work of OFSTED: Government's and OFSTED's response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2001-02
| 688 | 13.3.02
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Third Special Report: Individual Learning Accounts: Government's response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2001-02
| 987 | 26.6.02
| 32 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Standards and Quality in Education: The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools for 2001-02: Responses from Government and OFSTED to the Second Report from the Education and Skills Committee, Session 2001-02
| 1003 | 27.6.02
| 13 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: Appointment of New HMCI: Responses from Government and OFSTED to the Fourth Report from the Education and Skills Committee, Session 2001-02
| 1190 | 1.10.02
| 5 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: DfES: The Next Four Years
| 304-i | 21.11.01
| 15 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: DfES: The Next Four Years
| 304-ii | 25.1.02
| 20 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: DfES: The Next Four Years
| 304-iii | 25.1.02
| 17 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: The Next Four Years
| 304-iv | 25.1.02
| 20 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: The Next Four Years
| 304-v | 11.2.02
| 17 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: The Next Four Years
| 304-vi | 11.2.02
| 17 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: The Next Four Years
| 304-vii | 20.2.02
| 17 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: The Next Four Years
| 304-viii | 30.9.02
| 11 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: The Next Four Years
| 304-ix | 11.10.02
| 14 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Further Education: Follow-up
| 322-i | 29.11.01
| 54 | £11.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Further Education: Follow-up
| 322-ii | 4.12.01
| 27 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Teaching Unions | 506-i
| 13.2.02 | 20
| £5.50 | Not applicable
|
Minutes of Evidence: Teaching Unions | 506-ii
| 12.4.02 | 18
| £5.50 | Not applicable
|
Minutes of Evidence: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
| 711-i | 13.5.02
| 11 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
| 862-i | 30.9.02
| 26 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: UK Youth Parliament |
935-i | 26.7.02
| 12 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: General Teaching Council
| 998-i | 26.7.02
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: Departmental Report 2002
| 1012-i | 17.10.02
| 24 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Department for Education and Skills: Departmental Report 2002
| 1012-ii | 17.10.02
| 15 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Education in Birmingham
| 1191-i | 31.10.02
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Education in Birmingham
| 1191-ii | 31.10.02
| 21 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Education in Birmingham
| 1191-iii | 31.10.02
| 29 | £7.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Education in Birmingham
| 1191-iv | 31.10.02
| 25 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Education in Birmingham
| 1191-v | 31.10.02
| 18 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Individual Learning Accounts: Uncorrected oral evidence from John Healey MP
| 561-v | 27.2.02
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Minutes of Evidence published on the Internet: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
| 862-ii | 31.10.02
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Minutes of Evidence published on the Internet: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
| 862-iii | 11.11.02
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Minutes of Evidence published on the Internet: Work of Ofsted
| 1286-i | 5.11.02
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2000-01
None.
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01
were published on 11.5.01 as HC 524, Session 2000-01. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2001-02 will be published
as HC 1315, Session 2001-02.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
4.7.02 | Four, on amendments proposed to the Chairman's Draft Report on Post-16 Student Support.
|
Debates
The following Report and Special Report were debated in the House:
Third Report, Session 2001-02, Individual Learning Accounts and
Third Special Report, Session 2001-02, Individual Learning Accounts:
Government's response to the Committee's Third Report of Session
2001-02, on an Estimates Day under Standing Order No. 54, 27.6.02
The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:
First Report, Session 2001-02, The Work of OFSTED, and
the Second Special Report, Session 2001-02, The Work of OFSTED:
Government and OFSTED's Response; Second Report, Session 2001-02,
Standards and Quality in Education: the Annual Report of Her
Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools for 2000-01, and the
Fourth Special Report, Government and OFSTED's Response to
the Report, Session 2001-02, and Fourth Report, Session 2001-02,
The Appointment of a new HMCI, 4.7.02
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 40 of the Committee's 50 Meetings.
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Departmental Report 2002 | 2
|
DfES: the next 4 years | 9
|
Education in Birmingham | 5
|
Further Education: Follow-up | 2
|
General Teaching Council | 1
|
HMCI Report 2002 | 1
|
Individual Learning Accounts | 6
|
Library resources for higher education |
1 |
New HMCI 2002 | 1
|
Ofsted December 2001 | 1
|
Ofsted October 2002 | 1
|
PISA/Digital Divide | 1
|
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority |
3 |
Student Support | 4
|
Teaching Unions | 2
|
UK Youth Parliament | 1
|
Total | 41*
|
* On one occasion, two oral evidence sessions were taken at one
meeting of the Committee.
|