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
|
28-29.1.02 | Brussels | 10
| 3 | Inquiries into Objective1:European Structural Funds
| £6,145.01 |
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
15.10.01 | St Asaph | 6
| 2 | Inquiry into Broadband Cabling in Wales
| £1,314.76 |
29-30.10.01 | Cardiff and Newport
| 9 | 2
| Inquiries into Objective 1:European Structural Funds and Transport in Wales
| £2,486.12 |
28-29.11.01 | Cardiff and Newport
| 6 | 4
| Inquiries into Transport in Wales and Statistics in Wales
| £3,323.96 |
21.1.02 | Cardiff | 8
| 5 | Inquiry into Objective 1:European Structural Funds
| £1,694.37 |
25-26.3.02 | Anglesey, Bangor and Conwy
| 6 | 4A
| Inquiries into Broadband Cabling in Wales and Transport in Wales
| £2,508.84 |
7-9.5.02 | Builth Wells, Swansea, Cardiff, and Merthyr Tydfil
| 9 | 4A
| Inquiry into Transport in Wales | £4,842.81
|
29.5.02 | CardiffB | 3
| 1 | Inquiry into the draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill
| £451.14 |
17.6.02 | Cardiff | 7
| 4 | Inquiry into the draft National Health Service (Wales) Bill
| £849.04 |
22-23.7.02 | Swansea and Neath
| 6 | 2
| Inquiry into Empowering Children and Young People in Wales
| £1,788.84 |
21-22.10.02 | Cardiff | 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
|
|