11. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.
It had 17 Members and held 37 Meetings.
|
Members | Meetings
attended
|
|
Curry, Mr David (Chairman from 19.7.01) |
37 |
Borrow, Mr David | 25
|
Breed, Mr Colin | 26
|
Burnside, David | 11
|
Drew, Mr David | 30
|
Hall, Mr Patrick | 22
|
Hunter, Mr Andrew (discharged 10.12.01) |
1 |
Jack, Mr Michael | 33
|
Lepper, Mr David | 27
|
Martlew, Mr Eric | 17
|
Mitchell, Mr Austin (added 19.7.01) | 29
|
O'Brien, Mr Stephen (discharged 29.10.01) |
2 |
Olner, Mr Bill (discharged 19.7.01) | 1
|
Organ, Diana | 33
|
Sawford, Phil | 18
|
Shephard, Mrs Gillian (added 29.10.01) |
18 |
Simpson, Mr Keith (added 10.12.01) | 18
|
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul (discharged 5.11.01) |
1 |
Taylor, David | 31
|
Tipping, Paddy (added 5.11.01) | 30
|
Todd, Mr Mark | 31
|
|
Overall Attendance: | 70.0 %
|
Number of Members added: | 4
|
Number of Members discharged: | 4
|
Turnover of membership during the Session: |
23.5 % |
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Gavin Devine, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Second Clerk: Mr Nick Wright (until 7.11.01), Senior Clerk (Band
A2); Miss Kate Emms (from 19.7.01), Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Specialists: Mr David Taylor, (Band B1) (until 3.1.02);
Mr Richard Kelly, (Band B1); Dr Kate Trumper (from 2.4.02),
(Band B1)
Committee Assistants: Mr Mark Oxborough, Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2); assisted by Mr Darren Hackett (from 11.10.01), Chief
Office Clerk (Band C)
Secretary: Ms Anne Woolhouse, Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1); Carole
Farr (from 15.4.02 until 24.5.02), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Peter Howsam, Professor Penny Johnes, Professor Sir John Marsh
CBE, Professor Ken Thomson and Professor Kerry Turner CBE.
Witnesses | |
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by: |
|
Cabinet Ministers | 3
|
Ministers other than Cabinet Ministers
| 5 |
Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
| 2 |
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
| |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
| 14 |
public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| 11 |
Countryside Agency | 3
|
English Heritage | 2
|
Environment Agency | 4
|
National Forest Company | 2
|
Appearances by other witnesses | 77
|
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
12-13.12.01 | Brussels A |
2 | 0
| Conference on the Control and Prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease
| £1,362.26 |
7-20.3.02 | New Zealand | 11
| 2 | Inquiry into the Future of UK Agriculture
| £50,393.41 |
11-13.8.02 | Tromso, NorwayA |
1 | 0
| Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
| £1,472.69 |
10.9.02 | CopenhagenA | 2
| 0 | Working Meeting of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Committees of EU Member States' Parliaments
| £1,091.80 |
18-19.9.02 | Tallinn, EstoniaA
| 1 | 0
| Congress of European Agriculture | £850.01
|
ATravel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
11.2.02 | European Commission, Brussels
| 11 | 2
| Inquiry into the Future of UK Agriculture |
£6,010.91 |
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
24.4.02 | East AngliaA | 4
| 2 | Inquiry into the Future of UK Agriculture
| £445.20 |
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 Impact of Foot and Mouth DiseaseA
| 323 | 23.1.02
| 227 | £21.50
| Response received 13.5.02: published as Sixth Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Second Report: The Work of the Countryside Agency
| 386 | 13.2.02
| 32 | £10.00
| Government and Countryside Agency Response, received 1.5.02: published as Fifth Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Third Report: Radioactive Waste: The Government's Consultation Process
| 407 | 13.2.02
| 120 | £16.50
| Response received 24.7.02: published as Seventh Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Fourth Report: Disposal of Refrigerators |
673 | 20.6.02
| 168 | £18.50
| Response received 8.10.02: published as Twelfth Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Fifth Report: Genetically Modified Organisms
| 767 | 18.6.02
| 66 | £12.00
| Response received 30.9.02: published as Eighth Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Sixth Report: The Departmental Annual Report 2002
| 969 | 17.7.02
| 53 | £11.00
| Response received 18.9.02: published as Ninth Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Seventh Report: Illegal Meat Imports | 968
| 23.7.02 | 108
| £14.50 | Response received 24.9.02: published as Tenth Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Eighth Report: Hazardous Waste | 919
| 26.7.02 | 195
| £20.50 | Response received 24.10.02: published as Eleventh Special Report Session 2001-02
|
Ninth Report: The Future of UK Agriculture in a Changing World
| 550-I | 6.11.02
| 134 | £16.50
| Awaited |
Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: The Future of UK Agriculture in a Changing World
| 550-II | 6.11.02
| 477 | £34.00
| Not applicable |
Tenth Report: The Role of DEFRA |
991 | 14.11.02
| 154 | £16.50
| Awaited |
First Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Eighth Report of the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, "New Covent Garden Market" (HC 173)
| 272 | 22.10.01
| 6 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Reply by the Government to the Seventh Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, "The Implementation of IACS in the European Union" (HC 150)
| 273 | 22.10.01
| 14 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Third Special Report: Draft Water Bill: Government Reply to the Ninth Report of Session 2000-01, from the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee
| 499 | 14.1.02
| 5 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Delivering Sustainable Waste Management: Government Reply to the Fifth Report of the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee, Session 2000-01
| 659 | 5.3.02
| 29 | £7.50
| Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: The Countryside Agency: Government and Countryside Agency Reply to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2001-02
| 829 | 14.5.02
| 6 | £0.00
| Not applicable |
Sixth Special Report: The Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease: Government's Interim Reply to the Committee's First Report of Session 2001-02
| 856 | 21.5.02
| 7 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Seventh Special Report: Radioactive Waste: The Government's Consultation Process: Government's Reply to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2001-02
| 1221 | 24.10.02
| 8 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Eighth Special Report: Genetically Modified Organisms: Government Reply to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2001-02
| 1222 | 24.10.02
| 8 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Ninth Special Report: The Departmental Annual Report 2002: Government's Reply to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2001-02
| 1223 | 24.10.02
| 10 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Tenth Special Report: Illegal Meat Imports: Government's Reply to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2001-02
| 1224 | 24.10.02
| 10 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Eleventh Special Report: Hazardous Waste: Government's Reply to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2001-02
| 1225 | 24.10.02
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Twelfth Special Report: Disposal of Refrigerators: Government's Reply to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2001-02
| 1226 | 24.10.02
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Animal Health Bill
| 339-i | 30.11.01
| 26 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Kyoto Protocol and other environmental issues
| 306-i | 7.12.01
| 24 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Establishment of DEFRA and other matters
| 366-i | 10.1.02
| 29 | £7.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the National Forest Company
| 432 | 15.1.02
| 21 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Flooding | 411-i
| 16.1.02 | 27
| £7.50 | Not applicable
|
Minutes of Evidence: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
| 875 | 4.7.02
| 12 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: Foot and Mouth Disease 2001: Lessons to be Learned Inquiry
| 1144 | 6.9.02
| 17 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Minutes of Evidence: The Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock
| 1227 | 11.11.02
| 18 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
AIncludes Minutes of Evidence taken by the Agriculture Committee
and published as HC 363-i to -v, Session 2000-01.
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Agriculture Committee for
Session 2000-01 were published on 26.6.01 as HC 479, Session 2000-01.
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Environment, Transport and Regional
Affairs Committee for Session 2000-01 were published on 6.7.01
as HC 485. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs Committee for Session 2001-02 will be published
as HC 1316, Session 2001-02.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
22.10.02 | Two, on Amendments proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on The Future of UK Agriculture in a Changing World
|
Debates
The following Minutes of Evidence was referred to on the Order
Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:
Minutes of Evidence, Session 2001-02, The Animal Health Bill,
on Second Reading of the Animal Health Bill, 12.11.01
The following Report and Special Report of the Agriculture Committee
were debated in Westminster Hall:
Second Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01,
Organic Farming and Fifth Special Report from the Agriculture
Committee, Session 2000-01, Reply by the Government to the Second
Report from the Agriculture Committee, Session 2000-01, "Organic
Farming" (HC 149-I), 12.7.01
The following Report was referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to a debate in Westminster Hall:
Fourth Report, Session 2001-02, Disposal of Refrigerators, 9.7.02
The following Report of the Environment, Transport and Regional
Affairs Committee was referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to a debate in the House:
Fifth Report of the Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs
Committee, Session 2001-02, Delivering Sustainable Waste Management,
on an Estimates Day under Standing Order No. 54, 11.12.01
The following Report was referred to as relevant to a debate in
a European Standing Committee:
Fifth Report, Session 2001-02, Genetically Modified Organisms,
9.7.02
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 30 of the Committee's 37 Meetings.
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy | 1
|
Flooding | 1
|
Foot and Mouth Disease 2001: Lessons to be Learned Inquiry
| 1 |
Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock
| 1 |
The Animal Health Bill | 1
|
The Departmental Annual Report 2002 | 1
|
The Establishment of DEFRA and other matters
| 1 |
The Future of UK Agriculture | 11
|
The Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease | 3
|
The Kyoto Protocol and other environmental issues
| 1 |
The Role Of DEFRA | 3
|
The Work of the Countryside Agency | 1
|
The Work of the National Forest Company |
1 |
Water Framework Directive | 3
|
Total | 30
|
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