Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


30. Scottish Affairs

The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 19 Meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Adams, Mrs Irene (added 19.7.01) (Chairman from 17.10.01)
19
Atkinson, Mr Peter
0
Carmichael, Mr Alistair
14
Duncan, Mr Peter
12
Joyce, Mr Eric
14
Lazarowicz, Mr Mark
17
Lyons, Mr John
19
Marshall, Mr David (discharged 19.7.01)
0
McKechin, Ann
18
Robertson, John
16
Sarwar, Mr Mohammad
15
Weir, Mr Michael
15

Overall Attendance:
76.1 %
Number of Members added:
1
Number of Members discharged:
1
Turnover of membership during the Session:
9.1 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr John Whatley, Senior Clerk (Band A2)

Committee Assistant: Ms Jane Appleton (until 7.10.01), Higher Executive Officer (Band B2); Mrs Diane Nelson (from 8.10.01), Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)

Secretary: Miss Julie Storey, Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Mr Stewart Dunlop.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
1
Other Ministers
6
Member of the House of Lords (who was a Minister)
1
Member of the Scottish Executive
1
Members of the Scottish Parliament
3
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Scotland Office
2
other departments comprising:
Department of Trade and Industry
3
Ministry of Defence
1
Scottish Executive
1
public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
British Waterways Group
1
British Waterways Scotland
3
BBC
1
BBC Scotland
2
Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland
4
Commission for Racial Equality
2
HM Customs and Excise
4
Office of Fair Trading
1
Scottish Enterprise
3
Millennium Commission
1
regulatory body comprising:
Scottish Consumer Council
3
Appearances by other witnesses
33

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
3-4.12.01Forth, Clyde and Union Canal
9
4A
Inquiry into Job Creation Potential of the Forth, Clyde and Union Canal
£3,506.49
4.2.02Glasgow
10
4A
Inquiry into Post Devolution News and Current Affairs Broadcasting in Scotland
£3,261.03
14.2.02Edinburgh
8
2
Informal meeting with Conveners' Liaison Group, Scottish Parliament
£2,202.90
15-16.4.02Orkney
6
2
Inquiry into Customs Services in Scotland
£4,949.54
22.4.02Paisley, Glasgow
8
4A
Inquiry into Customs Services in Scotland
£3,433.89
20.5.02Anniesland, Glasgow
8
3A
Inquiry into Employment in Shipbuilding on the Clyde
£2,729.42

AIncludes 1 shorthand writer

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (2001-02)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: The Drinks Industry in Scotland
324
7.3.02
42
£10.00
Scottish Executive Response, received 21.1.02: published as First Special Report Session 2001-02; Scotland Office Response, received 7.3.02: published as First Special Report Session 2001-02
Minutes of Evidence: The Drinks Industry in Scotland
324-i-ii
27.11.01
49
£11.00
Not applicable
Second Report: Job Creation Potential of the Modernised Forth, Clyde and Union Canal
424
19.12.01
72
£12.00
Not required
Third Report: Post Devolution News and Current Affairs Broadcasting in Scotland
549
21.3.02
102
£14.50
Not required
Fourth Report: Customs Services in Scotland
782
16.5.02
40
£10.00
Received 14.10.02: published as Second Special Report Session 2001-02
Fifth Report: Employment in Shipbuilding on the Clyde
865
15.7.02
95
£14.50
Awaited
First Special Report: The Drinks Industry in Scotland: Response by the Government and the Scottish Executive to the First Report of the Committee of Session 2001-02 (HC 324)
696
18.3.02
10
£4.00
Not applicable
Second Special Report: Customs Services in Scotland: Response by the Government to the Fourth Report of the Committee of Session 2001-02 (HC 782)
1287
5.11.02
6
£3.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Scotland Office Departmental Report 2001
345-i
21.2.02
23
£7.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Work of the Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland
712-i
30.5.02
57
£11.00
Not applicable

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 13.11.02 as HC 1335, Session 2001-02.

Divisions

Date
Subject
13.3.02One, an Amendment proposed to Chairman's draft Report, Post Devolution News and Current Affairs Broadcasting in Scotland

Debates

None.

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 11 of the Committee's 19 Meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
Number of oral evidence sessions
Customs Services in Scotland
1
Employment in Shipbuilding on the Clyde
2
Job Creation Potential of the Modernised Forth, Clyde and Union Canal
1
Post Devolution News and Current Affairs Broadcasting in Scotland
3
Scotland Office Departmental Report 2001
1
The Drinks Industry in ScotlandA
1
The Work of the Commission for Racial Equality in Scotland
1
The Work of the Scottish Consumer CouncilB
1
Total
11

AThe Committee also took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 1999-2000, and figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 100 (1999-2000)). The Committee took further oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 2000-01 and those figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (2000-01)).

BOral evidence published as HC 1199-i in Session 2002-03.



 
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