Sessional Returns 2001-02 - Contents


39. Welsh Affairs

The Committee was nominated on Monday 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 39 Meetings.


Members
Meetings
attended

Jones, Mr Martyn (Chairman from 17.7.01)
38
Caton, Mr Martin
38
Francis, Dr Hywel
32
Morgan, Julie
31
Owen, Albert
23
Price, Adam
26
Prisk, Mr Mark
17
Ruane, Chris
31
Wiggin, Mr Bill
30
Williams, Mrs Betty
31
Williams, Mr Roger
34

Overall Attendance:
77.2 %
Turnover of membership during the Session:
0 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Tom Healey (until 31.10.02), Senior Clerk (Band A2) (until 1.11.01), Deputy Principal Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2) (from 1.11.01), Mr James Davies, Senior Clerk (Band A2)

Committee Assistant: Mr Paul Derrett, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)

Secretary: Mrs Amanda Waller (until 24.10.02), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1), Sarah Colebrook (from 28.10.02), Secretary Grade 3 (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Dr Rachel Ashworth, Ms Gillian Bristow, Professor Stuart Cole, Mr John Harper, Professor Dylan Jones-Evans and Professor Terry Marsden.
Witnesses
Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
3
Other Ministers
2
Members of the House of Lords
1
Number of Appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Wales Office
4
Other Departments
18
Comprising: Department for Trade and Industry
4
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
13
HM Treasury
1
Public Bodies and Non-Ministerial Departments
19
Comprising: Competition Commission
4
The Royal Mail
4
Strategic Rail Authority
2
Meat and Livestock Commission
2
OFTEL
3
The Traffic Commissioner for England and Wales
1
Welsh Development Agency
3
Parliamentary Counsel
2
European Commission Officials
2
Members of the National Assembly for Wales
6
Officials of the National Assembly for Wales
1
Welsh Assembly Government Ministers
2
Officials of the Welsh Assembly Government
6
Other witnesses
99

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
28-29.1.02Brussels
10
3
Inquiries into Objective1:European Structural Funds
£6,145.01

UK Visits

Date
Destination
Members
Staff
Purpose
Cost
15.10.01St Asaph
6
2
Inquiry into Broadband Cabling in Wales
£1,314.76
29-30.10.01Cardiff and Newport
9
2
Inquiries into Objective 1:European Structural Funds and Transport in Wales
£2,486.12
28-29.11.01Cardiff and Newport
6
4
Inquiries into Transport in Wales and Statistics in Wales
£3,323.96
21.1.02Cardiff
8
5
Inquiry into Objective 1:European Structural Funds
£1,694.37
25-26.3.02Anglesey, Bangor and Conwy
6
4A
Inquiries into Broadband Cabling in Wales and Transport in Wales
£2,508.84
7-9.5.02Builth Wells, Swansea, Cardiff, and Merthyr Tydfil
9
4A
Inquiry into Transport in Wales
£4,842.81
29.5.02CardiffB
3
1
Inquiry into the draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill
£451.14
17.6.02Cardiff
7
4
Inquiry into the draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill
£849.04
22-23.7.02Swansea and Neath
6
2
Inquiry into Empowering Children and Young People in Wales
£1,788.84
21-22.10.02Cardiff
7
5
Inquiry into the Primary Legislative process as it affects Wales
£2,051.66

AIncludes 1 specialist adviser

BTravel in a representative capacity

Reports and Minutes of Evidence

Title
HC No. (2001-02)
Date of publication
No. of pages
Sale price
Government reply
First Report: The Children's Society in Wales
525
15.2.02
60
£11.00
Received 19.4.02: published as Fourth Special Report Session 2001-02; The Charity Commission response received 26.6.02: published as Fourth Report Session 2001-02
Second Report: Objective 1: European Funding for Wales
520
22.5.02
91
£13.00
Received 17.7.02: published as Fourth Special Report Session 0221-02; The Welsh Assembly Government response published received 18.7.02 published as Fourth Special Report Session 2001-02
Third Report: The Draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill
959
10.7.02
104
£14.50
Received 5.8.02: published as Fifth Special Report Session 2001-02
Fourth Report: The Children's Society in Wales: Responses from the Government and the Charity Commission to the First Report of the Committee of Session 2001-2002
989
11.7.02
20
£6.00
Not required
First Special Report: Government response to the First Report of the Committee (Session 2000-01): Wales in The World: The Role of the UK Government in Promoting Wales Abroad
270
24.10.01
13
£4.00
Not applicable
Second Special Report: The Response of the National Assembly for Wales to the First Report of the Committee (Session 2000-01): Wales in the world: The Role of the UK Government in Promoting Wales abroad
311
7.11.01
10
£4.00
Not applicable
Third Special Report: Social Exclusion in Wales: Response of the National Assembly for Wales to the Third Report of the Committee of Session 1999-2000
604
12.2.02
14
£4.00
Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Objective 1: European Funding for Wales: Responses of the Government and the Welsh Assembly Government to the Second Report of the Committee of Session 2001-02
1169
5.8.02
10
£4.00
Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: The Draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill: Response of the Government to the Third Report of The Committee of Session 2001-02
1215
23.10.02
9
£4.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Wales Office Departmental Report and Other Departmental Matters
298-i
9.1.02
17
£5.50
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Farming and Food Policy in Wales
427 i-ii
5.8.02
70
£13.00
Not applicable
Minutes of Evidence: Post Office in Wales
817
5.8.02
47
£1.00
Not applicable

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2001-02 will be published as HC 1341, Session 2002-03.

Divisions

None.

Debates

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

First Report, Session 2001-01, Wales in the World: the Role of the UK Government in Promoting Wales Abroad, 2.5.02

The following Report was debated in the Welsh Grand Committee:

Third Report, Session 2001-02, The draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill, 16.7.02

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 39 Meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry
Number of oral evidence sessions
Broadband in Wales
4
Farming and Food Policy in Wales
2
The Children's Society in Wales
1
Objective 1: European Funding for Wales
3
The Departmental Report 2001-2002
1
The Draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill
2
Post Office in Wales
1
The Primary Legislative process as it affects Wales
1
Transport in Wales
7
Wales Office Departmental Report and other Departmental Matters
1
Total
23





 
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