2B Session 2003-04
Committee | Overseas Visits+*
| UK Visits+* | Specialist Advisers; fees and expenses*
| Work Commissioned, specialist publications, interpretation
| Transcription of evidence | Witnesses' expenses
| Entertainment and other minor expenses
| Total |
Departmental Committees | £
| £ | £ | £
| £ | £ | £
| £ |
Constitutional Affairs | 42,241.83
| 508.32 | 13,461.24 | -
| 31,800.85 | 973.56 | 66.75
| 89,052.55 |
Culture, Media and Sport | 71,161.86
| 19,898.79 | 2,856.70 | -
| 28,304.35 | 529.40 | 1,150.64
| 123,901.74 |
Maritime Heritage and Historic Ships Sub-Committee
| - | - | - |
- | - | - | -
| - |
Defence | 85,520.32 | 9,054.35
| 24,583.38 | 212.00 | 41,315.49
| 328.60 | 794.80 | 161,808.94
|
Education and Skills | 85,628.44
| 4,773.39 | 23,576.08 | -
| 48,551.89 | 2,706.13 | 128.52
| 165,364.45 |
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 16,216.54
| 8,532.32 | - | 1,465.42
| 34,454.35 | 2,791.94 | 966.47
| 64,427.04 |
Cetacean By-Catch Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
3,291.21 | - | - |
3,291.21 |
Draft Animal Welfare Bill Sub-Committee |
- | - | - | -
| 15,441.09 | 543.75 | -
| 15,984.84 |
Environmental Directives Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
4,460.61 | - | - |
4,460.61 |
Food Information Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
6,988.88 | - | - |
6,988.88 |
Future for UK Fishing Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
- | - | - | -
|
GM Planting Regime Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
2,704.66 | - | - |
2,704.66 |
Government's Rural Delivery Strategy Sub-Committee
| - | - | - |
- | - | 77.14 |
- | 77.14 |
Milk Pricing Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
5,072.37 | - | - |
5,072.37 |
Reform of the Sugar Regime Sub-Committee |
- | - | - | 267.00
| 3,271.60 | 27.13 | -
| 3,565.73 |
Sites of Special Scientific Interest Sub-Committee
| - | - | - |
- | 2,387.75 | - |
- | 2,387.75 |
Toxins in Shellfish Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
1,179.21 | - | - |
1,179.21 |
Water Pricing Sub-Committee | -
| - | - | - |
2,094.21 | - | - |
2,094.21 |
Foreign Affairs | 181,634.83 |
1,811.16 | 2,379.40 | 3,855.56
| 22,478.74 | 2,047.05 | 596.62
| 214,803.36 |
Health | 60,991.36 | 14,256.91
| 35,592.22 | 27.95 | 32,351.68
| 983.45 | 569.47 | 144,773.04
|
Home Affairs | 19,645.46 |
1,988.74 | 13,944.15 | 2,006.60
| 31,452.14 | 92.60 | 40.20
| 69,169.89 |
International Development | 83,282.31
| 470.24 | 21,082.80 | 917.18
| 27,181.52 | 926.22 | 42.79
| 133,903.06 |
Northern Ireland Affairs | 8,849.01
| 30,365.21 | 10,537.89 | 12,264.00
| 27,874.45 | 3,469.25 | 131.60
| 93,491.41 |
Northern Ireland Affairs Sub-Committee | -
| 11,920.30 | 4,304.52 | -
| 13,992.25 | 1,294.68 | 176.25
| 31,688.00 |
ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions
| 38,939.06 | 4,182.78 | 27,536.80
| - | 39,143.53 | 5,559.31
| 109.23 | 115,470.71 |
Urban Affairs Sub-Committee | 13,849.26
| 5,344.77 | 3,653.05 | -
| 13,378.62 | 510.35 | -
| 36,736.05 |
Science and Technology | 44,950.82
| 7,241.79 | 29,524.09 | 12,372.34
| 37,467.94 | 4,842.59 | 499.30
| 136,898.87 |
Scottish Affairs | 22,587.68 |
15,390.93 | - | 679.76
| 10,697.97 | 87.51 | 20.45
| 49,464.30 |
Trade and Industry | 112,443.81
| 19.32 | 4,284.95 | 18.99
| 55,093.61 | 2,490.08 | -
| 174,350.76 |
Transport | 65,253.97 | 2,945.17
| 8,175.70 | 165.51 | 33,508.22
| 716.15 | 448.60 | 111,213.32
|
Treasury | 42,052.22 | 20.00
| 7,243.03 | - | 5,059.411
| 713.75 | 4,697.63 | 59,786.04
|
Treasury Sub-Committee | 3,730.24
| - | - | - |
15,388.73 | 338.12 | -
| 19,457.09 |
Welsh Affairs | 414.38 | 14,970.99
| 19,295.85 | 5,620.92 | 26,444.12
| 2,359.36 | 78.05 | 69,183.67
|
Work and Pensions | 96,537.19
| 15,044.27 | 14,388.10 | 796.90
| 24,280.65 | 2,199.92 | 580.49
| 153,827.52 |
IT Sub-Committee | - | -
| 2,310 | - | 6,476.96
| - | - | 8,786.96
|
Other Committees |
| | |
| | |
| |
Accommodation and Works | - |
- | - | - | -
| - | - | - |
Administration | - | -
| - | - | - |
- | - | - |
Broadcasting | - | -
| - | - | - |
- | - | - |
Catering | - | -
| - | - | - |
- | - | - |
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
| - | - | - |
- | 214.07 | - |
- | 214.07 |
Draft Charities Bill (Joint Committee) | -
| - | 14,186.90 | -
| 4,952.02 | 196.85 | -
| 19,335.67 |
Draft Disability Discrimination Bill (Joint Committee)
| - | - | - |
5,457.19 | 6,437.28 | -
| - | 11,894.47 |
Draft Gambling Bill (Joint Committee) | 14,551.91
| 3,510.99 | 35,532.23 | 1,200.00
| 12,791.14 | 261.25 | 44.00
| 67,891.52 |
Draft Gambling Bill (Regional Casinos) (Joint Committee)
| - | - | - |
- | 2,374.12 | - |
- | 2,374.12 |
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee) |
- | - | - | -
| 1,157.45 | - | 59.00
| 1,216.45 |
Draft Mental Incapacity Bill (Joint Committee)
| - | - | 9,027.60
| 2,323.56 | - | 161.18
| - | 11,512.34 |
Environmental Audit | 9,642.12
| 4,916.09 | 2,712.49 | 165.51
| 30,857.34 | 640.15 | 738.43
| 49,672.13 |
Environmental Crime Sub-Committee | -
| 902.00 | 2,531.60 | -
| 12,150.32 | - | -
| 15,583.92 |
European Scrutiny | 34,342.41
| 480.28 | - | 153.46
| 11,554.40 | - | 444.80
| 46,975.35 |
Finance and Services | - |
- | - | - | -
| - | - | - |
Human Rights (Joint Committee) | 29,308.04
| 2,282.78 | 13,777.10 | -
| 5,498.54 | 537.94 | 130.94
| 51,535.34 |
Information | 3,136.44 | -
| - | - | - |
- | - | 3,136.44 |
Liaison | - | -
| - | - | 5,347.95
| - | - | 5,347.95
|
Liaison Sub-Committee | - |
- | - | - | -
| - | - | - |
Modernisation | - | 3,452.35
| - | 9,367.09 | 10,001.36
| 250.92 | 249.00 | 23,320.72
|
Procedure | - | -
| - | - | 5,240.30
| - | - | 5,240.30
|
Public Accounts | 7,742.41 |
4,449.35 | - | 13,472.58
| 57,487.16 | - | 1,101.07
| 84,252.57 |
Public Administration | 38,716.75
| 2,479.70 | 4,773.55 | 87.30
| 27,029.03 | 227.24 | 151.00
| 73,464.57 |
Regulatory Reform | - | -
| - | - | 2,648.48
| 562.05 | 176.70 | 3,387.23
|
Selection | - | -
| - | - | - |
- | - | - |
Standards and Privileges | - |
- | - | - | 4,886.83
| - | - | 4,886.83
|
Statutory Instruments | - |
- | - | - | -
| - | - | - |
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) |
- | - | - | -
| 230.29 | - | -
| 230.29 |
Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee) |
- | - | - | -
| - | - | - |
- |
* Includes some expenditure by Committees in Financial
Year 2002-03
+ Includes travel in a representative capacity
Includes a refund
3 Select Committee Staff[18]
Details of the staff serving a particular Select Committee are
set out in the entry for that Committee. One member of staff may
fill more than one Committee post.
Furthermore, in many cases, Committee staff carry out duties in
the service of the House unrelated to their work for a particular
Committee. For some staff, especially those working in offices
other than the Committee Office, those duties account for most
of their work. This analysis of the staff who served Select Committees
during Session 2003-04 is therefore presented Office by Office.
NUMBERS AND GRADES OF STAFF SERVING SELECT COMMITTEES
Committee Office
Principal Clerks* | 5
|
Deputy Principal/Senior Clerks | 33
|
Assistant Clerks | 6
|
Committee Assistants: |
|
Senior Executive Officers | 3
|
Higher Executive Officers | 19
|
Chief Office Clerks | 3
|
Senior Office Clerks | 11
|
NAO Audit Officers on secondment | 2
|
Inquiry Managers | 4
|
Committee Specialists | 25
|
Media Officer | 1
|
Secretaries** | 29
|
*The Committee Office has five Principal Clerks who have supervisory
and management responsibilities. Three of these performed additional
functions as Clerks of Select or Joint Committees. The Clerk of
Committees is Clerk of the Liaison Committee and of the Modernisation
Committee; one Principal Clerk of Select Committees is Second
Clerk of the Liaison Committee; and the Clerk of Domestic Committees
is Clerk of the Finance and Services Committee.
**Includes Personal Secretaries to Principal Clerks, and Secretaries
providing support for Committees supported by Clerks in the Journal
Office and Legislation Service.
The Scrutiny Unit
The Scrutiny Unit of the Committee Office provides briefing for
select committees on request; it has particular expertise in public
expenditure, accountancy and the law. The Unit carried out 71
tasks for 19 committees in Session 2003-04. Its staff also provided
the secretariat of five Joint Committees, which were involved
in pre-legislative scrutiny. These were:
Joint Committee on the draft Gambling Bill
Joint Committee on the draft Disability Discrimination Bill
Joint Committee on the draft Charities Bill
Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health Bill
Joint Committee on the draft Gambling Bill (Regional Casinos)
(see separate entries in the Committee section of the Return).
The numbers and grades of staff in the Unit as at 22 November
2004 are:
1 Deputy Principal Clerk
1 Senior Clerk
6 Specialists on secondment:
1 Estimates specialist from a government department
3 NAO Audit Officers
1 Audit Commission Specialist Performance Auditor
1 statistician from the House of Commons Library
3 Committee Specialists (2 with legal qualifications)
1 Higher Executive Officer
3 Chief Office Clerks
1 Office Support Assistant
Further details about the Unit's work during the session will
appear in the Liaison Committee's Annual Report for 2004.
Journal Office
A Deputy Principal Clerk was also Clerk of the Procedure Committee
and one Deputy Principal Clerk was Second Clerk of the Modernisation
Committee.
A Senior Clerk assisted the Clerk of the Committee on Standards
and Privileges; and an Assistant Clerk in the Office assisted
the Clerk of the Procedure Committee.
Legislation Service
The Clerk of Delegated Legislation (a Principal Clerk) has supervisory
responsibility for staff of the Regulatory Reform and European
Scrutiny Committees, for the Joint and Select Committees on Statutory
Instruments and for the Joint Committee on Human Rights. He is
supported by a Personal Secretary.
The following staff served the European Scrutiny Committee: 1
Deputy Principal Clerk, 5 Senior Clerks (including 4 Clerk/Advisers
with specialist experience), 1 Higher Executive Officer, 2 Chief
Office Clerks, 4 Secretaries and 1 Office Support Assistant.
The Committee was assisted by the Counsel for European Legislation
and by an Assistant Legal Adviser. One of the Chief Office Clerks
also supported the Regulatory Reform Committee and the Joint and
Select Committees on Statutory Instruments. One of the Secretaries
also supported the Regulatory Reform Committee. The Office Support
Assistant also supported the Joint and Select Committees on Statutory
Instruments.
A Senior Clerk was Clerk of the Regulatory Reform Committee, Clerk
of the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments and Commons Clerk
of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments.
The Regulatory Reform Committee was assisted by the Counsel for
Legislation, the two Assistant Counsel and a Committee Specialist,
in addition to the staff shared with the European Scrutiny Committee.
The Joint and Select Committees on Statutory Instruments were
assisted by the Counsel for Legislation, the two Assistant Counsel
and a Secretary, in addition to the Chief Office Clerk shared
with the European Scrutiny Committee.
A Deputy Principal Clerk was Commons Clerk of the Joint Committee
on Human Rights, which was also served by a Legal Adviser (employed
jointly with the House of Lords), a Committee Specialist, a Committee
Assistant and a Secretary.
A Senior Clerk in the Public Bill Office was also Clerk of the
Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills. Another Senior Clerk
in the Public Bill Office was also Commons Clerk of the Joint
Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills.
A Senior Clerk in the Private Bill Office was also Clerk of the
Committee on Selection. She was assisted by a Chief Office Clerk
who otherwise provided general support for the Committee Office
and the Overseas Office.
General
In addition, the following staff in the Committee Office provided
support for the work of Select Committees as a whole, not assigned
to a particular Committee:
1 Business Manager
1 Office Manager
1 Deputy Office Manager
1 IS Support Officer
1 Chief Office Clerk
1 Assistant Office Manager
1 Senior Office Clerk
7 Office Support Assistants
Note: two of these staff also provided support to the Overseas
Office. The Office Manager and Deputy Office Manager also provided
services to the Clerk's Department as a whole.
Staff costs for the Committee Office in financial year 2003-04
were approximately £6.3m.
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