Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


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
12-13.12.01Brussels A
2
0
Conference on the Control and Prevention of Foot and Mouth Disease
£1,362.26
7-20.3.02New Zealand
11
2
Inquiry into the Future of UK Agriculture
£50,393.41
11-13.8.02Tromso, NorwayA
1
0
Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region
£1,472.69
10.9.02CopenhagenA
2
0
Working Meeting of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Committees of EU Member States' Parliaments
£1,091.80
18-19.9.02Tallinn, EstoniaA
1
0
Congress of European Agriculture
£850.01

ATravel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
11.2.02European Commission, Brussels
11
2
Inquiry into the Future of UK Agriculture
£6,010.91


UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
24.4.02East 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
22.10.02Two, 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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