Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


27. Public Administration

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 41 Meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Wright, Tony (Chairman from 18.7.01)
41
Brennan, Kevin
37
Brooke, Annette
36
Chapman, Sir Sydney (added 4.3.02)
20
Heyes, Mr David
30
Hopkins, Mr Kelvin (added 16.10.02)
4
Liddell-Grainger, Mr Ian
34
Lyons, Mr John
25
Prentice, Mr Gordon
37
Steen, Mr Anthony (discharged 4.3.02)
1
Trend, Hon Michael
25
White, Brian
37
Wright, Mr Anthony D. (discharged 16.10.02)
23

Overall Attendance:
77.6 %
Number of Members added:
2
Number of Members discharged:
2
Turnover of membership during the Session:
18.2 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Philip Aylett, Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2)

Committee Specialist: Mr Chris Carrington (Band B1)

Committee Assistant: Ms Clare Genis (until 17.9.01), Higher Executive Officer (Band B2); Miss Jackie Recardo (from 3.10.01), Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)

Secretary: Miss Jenny Cowan, Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1) (until 17.7.02); Ms Jennifer Nelson (from 18.3.02), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1) (from 18.7.02)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor Robert Hazell, Sir Nicholas Monck KCB, Professor Colin Talbot, Mr Tony Travers and Professor Stuart Weir.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
4
Other Ministers
7
Members of Parliament
9
Members of the House of Lords
13
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Cabinet Office
12
HM Treasury
1
Home Office
2
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
1
Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments:
Commission for Racial Equality
1
Disability Rights Commission
1
Equal Opportunities Commission
1
Information Commission
3
Legal Services Commission
1
Office of the Civil Service Commissioners
1
Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments
1
Executive agencies:
Child Support Agency
1
The following officials also attended meetings of the Committee:
Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner
2
Deputy Health Service Commissioner
1
Deputy Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
1
Appearances by other witnesses:
45

Overseas Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
17-18.6.02Netherlands
8
2
Inquiry into Public Service Reform
£8,810.98
(estimated outturn)

Visits to European Institutions
None.

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: Public Participation: Issues and Innovations: The Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report Session 2000-01
334
7.11.01
16
£4.50
Not applicable
Second Report: The Ministerial Code: Improving the Rule Book: The Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2000-01
439
11.12.01
12
£4.50
Not applicable
Third Report: Special Advisers: Boon or Bane: The Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2000-01.
463
18.12.01
20
£6.00
Not applicable
Fourth Report: Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions: The Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2000-01
464
20.12.01
12
£4.50
Not applicable
Fifth Report: The Second Chamber: Continuing the Reform
494-I
14.2.02
55
£11.00
Lord Chancellor's Department Response, received 18.4.02: published as Sixth Report, Session 2001-02
Minutes of Evidence: The Second Chamber: Continuing the Reform
494-II
25.2.02
177
£18.50
Not applicable
Sixth Report: The Second Chamber: Continuing the Reform: The Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report
794
30.4.02
11
£4.50
Not applicable
Seventh Report: The Public Service Ethos
263-I
23.6.02
34
£9.00
Cabinet Office Response, received 20.11.02: published as First Special Report Session 2002-03
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-i
4.12.01
15
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-ii
19.12.01
11
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-iii
10.1.02
30
£7.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-iv
7.6.02
48
£11.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-v
21.2.02
36
£9.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-vi
1.3.02
22
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Public Service Ethos
263-vii
6.3.02
32
£9.00
Not applicable
Memoranda: The Public Service Ethos
263-II
21.6.02
325
£16.50
Not applicable
Eighth Report: "These Unfortunate Events": Lessons of Recent Events at the former DTLR
303
19.7.02
27
£7.50
Awaited
Ninth Report: Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions[15]
1086
23.7.02
99
£14.50
Awaited
Minutes of Evidence: The New Centre
262-i
20.11.01
25
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The New Centre
262-ii
18.1.02
17
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The New Centre
262-iii
29.7.02
23
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The New Centre
262-iv
2.8.02
18
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Government Information and Communication
303-i
25.3.02
34
£9.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Government Information and Communication
303-ii
28.3.02
19
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Government Information and Communication
303-iii
1.5.02
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Ombudsman Issues
563-i
14.3.02
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Ombudsman Issues
563-ii
13.5.02
15
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Ombudsman Issues
563-iii
17.7.02
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Ombudsman Issues
563-iv
25.7.02
15
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: The Annual Report of the Health Service Ombudsman
564-i
8.3.02
12
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-i
28.3.02
20
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-ii
1.5.02
16
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-iii
7.5.02
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-iv
31.5.02
15
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-v
26.6.02
28
£7.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-vi
26.6.02
11
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-vii
3.7.02
19
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-viii
17.7.02
27
£7.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-ix
26.11.02
26
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Public Appointments and Patronage
686-x
26.11.02
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Civil Service Issues
1049-i
24.7.02
16
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Freedom of Information
1085-i
29.7.02
10
£4.00
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2000-01 were published on 23.7.01 as HC 499, Session 2000-01. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2001-02 will be published as HC 1332, Session 2001-02.

Divisions

Date
Subject
13.12.01One, on an Amendment proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on Special Advisers: Boon or Bane: The Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2000-01.
13.6.02One, on an Amendment proposed to the Chairman's draft Report on The Public Service Ethos.

Debates

The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Sixth Report, Session 2000-01, Public Participation: Issues and Innovations, 29.11.01

Second Report, Session 2000-01, Ministerial Accountability and Parliamentary Questions, and Fourth Report, Session 2001-02, HC 464, 15.10.02

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

Fifth Report, Session 2001-02, The Second Chamber: Continuing the Reform, 19.6.02

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 35 of the Committee's 41 Meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
Number of oral evidence sessions
Civil Service Issues
1
Freedom of Information
1
Government Information and Communication
3
House of Lords Reform
3
Ombudsman Issues
4
Public Appointments and Patronage
10
Public Service Reform
7
Public Service Targets
1
The Annual Report of the Health Service Ombudsman
1
The New Centre
4
Total
35





15   Government Response received on 14.11.02. To be published in Session 2002-03.

 
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