Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


14. Foreign Affairs

The Committee was nominated on Thursday 19 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 51 Meetings. This included 3 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees (abbreviated to "CM" in the attendance table below).


Members
Meetings
attended

Anderson, Mr Donald (Chairman from 19.7.01)
49 (including 3 CM)
Chidgey, Mr David
36 (including 1 CM)
Cormack, Sir Patrick
31
Hamilton, Mr Fabian
34 (including 1 CM)
Illsley, Mr Eric
33
Mackinlay, Andrew
38 (including 1 CM)
Maples, Mr John
30
Olner, Mr Bill
39 (including 2 CM)
Pope, Mr Greg
31
Stanley, Sir John
49 (including 3 CM)
Stuart, Ms Gisela
19 (including 1 CM)

Overall Attendance:
72.4 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %


Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Steve Priestley, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2)

Second Clerk: Mr Steven Mark (until 31.10.02), Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (until 30.9.02), Senior Clerk (A2) (from 1.10.02); Mr Geoffrey Farrar (from 1.11.02), Assistant Clerk (Band A3)

Committee Assistant: Mr James Davies (until 5.11.01), Senior Executive Officer (Band B1); Ms Jane Appleton (from 8.10.01), Senior Executive Officer (Band B1), assisted by Miss Ana Ferreira (until 1.3.02), Senior Office Clerk (Band D1); Mr Andrew Boyd (from 25.2.02), Senior Office Clerk (Band D1)

Committee Specialist: Ms Elizabeth Sellwood, (Band B1)

Secretary: Mrs Sheryl Bertasius, Secretary Grade 2 (Band C)

Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.

Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers15
Other Ministers6
Members of Parliament 2
Members of the House of Lords3
Number of appearances by officials or representatives of:
Foreign and Commonwealth Office48
Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments 6
Comprising:BBC World Service3
British Council3
Appearances by other witnesses 37
Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
17-18.9.01BrusselsA
2
0
Conference on European Security and Defence Policy
£1,226.93
14-13.10.01Brussels
11
2
Work in preparation for the Belgian presidency of the EU
£8,336.57
22-23.10.01BrusselsA
1
1
Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen (COFACC)
£1,304.33
4-3.11.01United States
11
2
Inquiry into British-US Relations
£54,122.12
14-15.1.02Madrid
10
2
Work in preparation for the Spanish presidency of the EU
£9,953.15
4-7.3.02Turkey
6
2
Inquiry into Turkey
£10,103.36
4.3.02Madrid
1
1
Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen (COFACC)
£1,896.79
17-19.3.02New York and Washington
3
1
Inquiry into the Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
£22,397.48
24-26.3.02Cyprus
7
2
Inquiry into developments in the EU
£7,409.15
24-25.6.02Copenhagen
9
2
Work in preparation for the Danish presidency of the EU
£9,498.65
30.6-1.7.02Gibraltar
8
2
Inquiry into Gibraltar
£11,754.40
4-5.7.02Riga, LatviaA
1
0
Conference on NATO enlargement
£1,641.05
9-10.10.02CopenhagenA
1
1
Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman (COFACC)
£2,517.64
13-16.10.02New York and Washington
9
2
Inquiry into the Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
£43,145.13


ATravel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
3.6.02Brussels
1
0
Joint Meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Committees
£568.37

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (2001-02)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Gibraltar
413
13.12.01
83
£13.00
Not applicable
Second Report: British-US Relations
327
18.12.01
154
£16.50
Cm 5372, published 19.2.02
Third Report: Laeken European Council
435
31.1.02
26
£0.50
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Zimbabwe
456
12.2.02
22
£6.00
Not applicable
Fifth Report: Human Rights Annual Report 2001
589
28.2.02
77
£13.00
Cm 5509, published 8.5.02
Sixth Report: Turkey
606
30.4.02
176
£18.50
Cm 5529, published 4.7..02
Seventh Report: Foreign Policy Aspects of the War Against Terrorism
384
20.6.02
173
£18.50
Cm 5589, published 28.8.02
Eighth Report: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2000, Licensing Policy and Prior Parliamentary Scrutiny*
718
19.7.02
127
£14.50
Cm 5629, published 28.10.02
Ninth Report: Private Military Companies
922
1.8.02
181
£18.50
Cm5642, published 31.10.02
Tenth Report: Zimbabwe
813
31.7.02
104
£14.50
Cm 5608, published 7.10.02
Eleventh Report: Gibraltar
973
7.11.02
130
£16.50
Awaited
First Special Report: Appointment of Parliamentary Representatives to the Convention on the Future of Europe
509
10.1.02
9
£4.00
Not applicable

* Joint publication with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees.

Government replies to Reports for Session 2000-01
None.

Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2001-02 were published on 29 November 2002 as HC 1320, Session 2001-02.
Divisions

Date
Subject
26.2.02Two, on motions relating to guidance to ambassadors
11.6.02Two, on amendments proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
23.7.02Eleven, on amendments proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Private Military Companies
5.11.02Six, on amendments proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Gibraltar


Debates

The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Fourth Report, Session 2000-01, Government Policy towards the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the wider region following the fall of Milosevic, 6.12.01

Second Report, Session 2001-02, British-US Relations, 25.4.02

Seventh Report, Session 2001-02, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism, 31.10.02

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 25 of the Committee's 51 Meetings. At some of these meetings, more than one oral evidence session was held. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
Number of oral evidence sessions
Biological Weapons Green Paper
1
Britain and the European Union
3
British-US Relations
2
FCO Annual Report 2002
2
Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
8
Gibraltar
2
Human Rights Annual Report 2001
1
Inter-Governmental Conference 2004: The Convention on the Future of Europe
1
Private Military Companies
2
Strategic Export Controls*
1
Turkey
3
Zimbabwe
4
Total
30

Jointly with the Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees.



 
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