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
|
17-18.9.01 | BrusselsA | 2
| 0 | Conference on European Security and Defence Policy
| £1,226.93 |
14-13.10.01 | Brussels | 11
| 2 | Work in preparation for the Belgian presidency of the EU
| £8,336.57 |
22-23.10.01 | BrusselsA | 1
| 1 | Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen (COFACC)
| £1,304.33 |
4-3.11.01 | United States |
11 | 2
| Inquiry into British-US Relations | £54,122.12
|
14-15.1.02 | Madrid | 10
| 2 | Work in preparation for the Spanish presidency of the EU
| £9,953.15 |
4-7.3.02 | Turkey | 6
| 2 | Inquiry into Turkey
| £10,103.36 |
4.3.02 | Madrid | 1
| 1 | Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen (COFACC)
| £1,896.79 |
17-19.3.02 | New York and Washington
| 3 | 1
| Inquiry into the Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
| £22,397.48 |
24-26.3.02 | Cyprus | 7
| 2 | Inquiry into developments in the EU
| £7,409.15 |
24-25.6.02 | Copenhagen | 9
| 2 | Work in preparation for the Danish presidency of the EU
| £9,498.65 |
30.6-1.7.02 | Gibraltar | 8
| 2 | Inquiry into Gibraltar
| £11,754.40 |
4-5.7.02 | Riga, LatviaA |
1 | 0
| Conference on NATO enlargement | £1,641.05
|
9-10.10.02 | CopenhagenA |
1 | 1
| Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman (COFACC)
| £2,517.64 |
13-16.10.02 | New 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
|
3.6.02 | Brussels | 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
|
26.2.02 | Two, on motions relating to guidance to ambassadors
|
11.6.02 | Two, on amendments proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
|
23.7.02 | Eleven, on amendments proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Private Military Companies
|
5.11.02 | Six, 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.
|