Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


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
19-20.3.02Paris
8
5
Inquiry into Secondary Education
£8,400.73
19-21.6.02Prato, ItalyA
2
0
European Access Network Annual Conference
£2,969.15
14.10.02New 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
2-3.1.02Huddersfield A
1
1
North of England Education Conference
£603.13
24.1.02Church House, Westminster A
1
0
Education Conference
£188.00
16-20.9.02Birmingham
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
4.7.02Four, 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.



 
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