Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


18. Human Rights (Joint Committee)

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 6 Commons Members and held 32 Meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Corston, Jean (Chairman from 19.7.01)
32
Baird, Vera
25
Baker, Norman
21
Cunningham, Tony (discharged 19.7.01)
1
McNamara, Mr Kevin (added 19.7.01)
17
Shepherd, Mr Richard (added 15.11.01)
9
Woodward, Mr Shaun
23

Overall Attendance:
67.9 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
16.7 %


Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Paul Evans (from 1.10.01), Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2)

Committee Specialist: Roisin Pillay (from 1.10.02), (Band B1)

Committee Assistant: Mrs Carolyn Bowes (until 23.10.01), Chief Office Clerk (Band C); Duma Langton (from 26.11.01), Senior Office Clerk (Band D1), (from 24.6.02) Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)

Secretary: Ms Pam Morris (from 29.10.01), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1)

Legal Adviser: Professor David Feldman (Senior Structure Band 5)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Frances Butler, Jeremy Croft and Jodie Reed.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers:
2
Other Ministers
2
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Home Office
4
Lord Chancellor's Department
4
public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
8
Appearances by other witnesses
18


Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
4-19.10.02India, Australia & New Zealand
5
2
Inquiry into the Case for a Human Rights Commission for the UK
£41,212.34

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
6-7.2.02Belfast
4
2
Inquiry into the Case for a Human Rights Commission
£2,784.90
12-13.6.02Cardiff
2
3A
Inquiry into the Case for a Human Rights Commission
£1,534.74
26-27.6.02Edinburgh
2
3A
Inquiry into the Case for a Human Rights Commission
£2,649.34

AIncludes 1 specialist adviser

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (2001-02)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: Homelessness Bill
314
7.11.01
19
£6.00
Not required
Second Report: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill
372
16.11.01
30
£9.00
Not required
Third Report: Proceeds of Crime Bill
405
30.11.01
19
£6.00
Not required
Fourth Report: Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Bill
406
30.11.01
10
£4.50
Not required
Fifth Report: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill: Further Report
420
5.12.01
42
£10.00
Not required
Sixth Report: Mental Health Act 1983 (Remedial) Order
472
19.12.01
20
£6.00
Not required
Seventh Report: Making of Remedial Orders
473
19.12.01
20
£6.00
Response received 8.7.02
Eighth Report: Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill
474
19.12.01
19
£6.00
Not required
Ninth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Progress Report
475
19.12.01
10
£4.50
Not required
Tenth Report: Animal Health Bill
542
28.1.02
14
£4.50
Not required
Eleventh Report: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Further Report
596
11.2.02
25
£4.50
Not required
Twelfth Report: Employment Bill
645
4.3.02
25
£6.00
Not required
Thirteenth Report: Police Reform Bill
646
4.3.02
17
£6.00
Not required
Fourteenth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Private Members Bills and Private Bills
674
8.3.02
14
£4.50
Not required
Fifteenth Report: Police Reform Bill: Further Report
706
25.3.02
50
£11.00
Not required
Sixteenth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Further Progress Report
805
7.5.02
23
£6.00
Not required
Seventeenth Report: Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill
961
21.6.02
86
£13.00
Not required
Eighteenth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Further Progress Report
962
21.6.02
30
£7.50
Not required
Nineteenth Report: Draft Communications Bill
1102
19.7.02
27
£7.50
Not required
Twentieth Report: Draft Extradition Bill
1140
26.7.02
17
£6.00
Not required
Twenty-first Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Further Progress Report
1141
26.7.02
19
£6.00
Not required
Twenty-second Report: The Case for a Human Rights Commission: Interim Report
1142
2.9.02
263
£21.50
Not required
Twenty-third Report: Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill: Further Report
1255
23.10.02
21
£6.00
Not required
Twenty-fourth Report: Adoption and Children Bill: As amended by the House of Lords on Report
979
30.10.02
16
£4.50
Not required
Twenty-fifth Report: Draft Mental Health Bill
1294
11.11.02
49
£11.00
Not required
Twenty-sixth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Final Progress Report
1295
16.12.02
30
£7.50
Not required
Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Human Rights Unit
719-i
17.12.02
21
£5.50
Not applicable
Uncorrected Minutes of Evidence published on the Internet: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
1103
15.7.02
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 6.7.01 as HC 509, Session 2000-01. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2001-02 will be published as HC 1323, Session 2001-02.

Divisions

None.

Debates

The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

Second Report, Session 2001-02, Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, Second Reading of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, 18.11.01

Eighth Report, Session 2001-02, Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill, Second Reading of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill, 9.4.02

Thirteenth Report, Session 2001-02, Police Reform Bill, Second Reading of the Police Reform Bill, 7.5.02

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 10 of the Committee's 32 Meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
Number of oral evidence sessions
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill
1
The Case for a Human Rights Commission
7
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
1
The Work of the Human Rights Unit
1
Total
10





 
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