2B SESSION 2004-05
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
| - | -
| 7,689.80 | -
| 12,085.82 | 269.40
| 13.50 | 20,058.52
|
Culture, Media and Sport
| 4,518.24 | 7,410.70
| - | -
| 14,271.92 | 420.65
| 101.15 | 26,722.66
|
Sub-Committee on Maritime Heritage and Historic Ships
| - | 23.00
| - | -
| 1,324.06 | 342.23
| - | 1,689.29
|
Defence | 61,872.40
| 4,818.64 | 18,660.31
| 2,000.00 | 21,333.32
| 5,975.28 | 236.96
| 114,896.91 |
Education and Skills |
39,824.68 | 220.00
| 24,341.74 | -
| 34,079.11 | 980.61
| 8.88 | 99,455.02
|
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
| 97.42 | 6,499.38
| - | 814.13
| 11,818.34 | 321.90
| 278.81 | 19,829.98
|
Draft Animal Welfare Bill Sub-Committee
| - | -
| - | -
| - | 132.00
| - | 132.00
|
Draft Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill Sub-Committee
| - | -
| - | -
| 3,093.92 | -
| - | 3,093.92
|
Future for UK Fishing Sub-Committee
| - | 4,213.77
| - | -
| 6,654.10 | 92.30
| 38.57 | 10,998.74
|
Government's Rural Delivery Strategy Sub-Committee
| - | 1,466.00
| - | -
| 4,393.56 | -
| - | 5,859.56
|
Progress on Pesticides Sub-Committee
| - | -
| - | -
| 4,806.75 | 261.30
| - | 5,068.05
|
Water Pricing Sub-Committee
| - | -
| - | -
| 1,369.64 | -
| - | 1,369.64
|
Foreign Affairs | 48,908.03
| 293.22 | -
| 2,818.53 | 12,994.67
| 2,166.00 | 3,219.89
| 70,400.34 |
Health | 1,631.76
| 6,065.44 | 27,697.58
| 29.50 | 21,690.52
| 549.15 | 450.12
| 58,114.07 |
Home Affairs | 10,662.47
| - | 3,996.55
| 1,947.78 | 17,817.13
| 297.10 | 95.97
| 34,817.00 |
International Development
| 58,974.58 | 80.13
| 3,645.00 | 1,960.64
| 16,060.85 | 1,014.63
| 20.82 | 81,756.65
|
Northern Ireland Affairs
| - | 9,625.58
| 18,847.14 | -
| 14,321.82 | 7,700.78
| 1,211.55 | 51,706.87
|
Northern Ireland Affairs Sub-Committee
| 3,879.10 | 7,503.24
| 17,194.92 | -
| 7,838.34 | -
| - | 36,415.60
|
ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions
| 11,786.39 | 904.00
| 9,155.82 | 777.90
| 10,510.45 | 1,175.04
| 719.25 | 35,028.85
|
Urban Affairs Sub-Committee
| - | -
| 4,375.85 | -
| 11,170.23 | 1,162.78
| - | 16,708.86
|
Science and Technology |
162.22 | -
| 19,035.47 | 147.08
| 22,102.95 | 2,527.20
| 428.00 | 44,402.92
|
Scottish Affairs | 33,849.66
| 4,360.34 | -
| 18.00 | 4,741.29
| - | 263.95
| 43,233.24 |
Trade and Industry |
10,632.29 | -
| 3,115.12 | -
| 32,447.37 | -
| - | 46,194.78
|
Transport | 7,941.71
| 393.60 | 3,230.00
| 165.00 | 19,062.93
| 837.00 | 288.35
| 31,918.59 |
Treasury | 24,053.00
| - | 1,554.00
| 1,963.00 | 18,010.00
| 243.00 | -
| 45,823.00 |
Treasury Sub-Committee |
5,530.00 | 2,473.00
| - | -
| 4,746.00 | -
| - | 12,749.00
|
Welsh Affairs | 11,781.04
| 7,912.63 | 5,911.64
| 1,836.17 | 12,348.72
| 497.54 | 219.00
| 40,506.74 |
Work and Pensions | 882.19
| 8,528.52 | 3,591.60
| - | 9,381.70
| 430.16 | 117.50
| 22,931.67 |
IT Sub-Committee | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - |
Other Committees
|
Accommodation and Works
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
|
Administration | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - |
Broadcasting | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - |
Catering | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - |
Consolidation, &c., Bills (Joint Committee)
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
|
Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Joint Committee)
| - | -
| - | -
| 2,633.53 | 127.05
| - | 2,760.58
|
Draft Mental Health Bill (Joint Committee)
| - | 4,577.59
| 24,848.77 | 2,825.88
| 8,151.89 | 1,391.12
| 59.00 | 41,854.25
|
Environmental Audit |
- | 410.45
| 400.00 | 265.00
| 16,051.19 | -
| - | 17,126.64
|
Environmental Crime Sub-Committee
| - | -
| 225.00 | -
| 639.62 | -
| - | 864.62
|
Environmental Education Sub-Committee
| - | -
| 2,333.90 | -
| 5,819.04 | 296.80
| - | 8,449.74
|
European Scrutiny | 27,514.86
| 829.84 | -
| 35.00 | 6,232.74
| 797.95 | 1,659.60
| 37,069.99 |
Finance and Services |
- | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
|
Human Rights (Joint Committee)
| 1,421.12 | -
| 4,960.33 | 1,439.00
| 976.43 | -
| 731.59 | 9,528.47
|
Information | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - |
Liaison | -
| - | -
| - | 2,138.93
| - | -
| 2,138.93 |
Liaison Sub-Committee |
- | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
|
Modernisation | 9,657.69
| - | -
| - | 951.05
| - | -
| 10,608.74 |
Procedure | -
| - | -
| - | 2,746.81
| - | -
| 2,746.81 |
Public Accounts | 7,495.00
| 3,886.00 | 145.00
| 8,743.00 | 28,716.00
| - | 690.00
| 49,675.00 |
Public Administration |
- | 1,635.50
| 2,100.00 | 199.62
| 17,717.39 | -
| 327.38 | 21,979.89
|
Regulatory Reform | -
| - | -
| - | 1,567.22
| - | -
| 1,567.22 |
Selection | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - |
Standards and Privileges
| - | -
| - | -
| 1,174.40 | -
| - | 1174.40
|
Statutory Instruments |
- | -
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
|
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
| - | -
| - | -
| - | -
| 18.95 | 18.95
|
Tax Law Rewrite Bills (Joint Committee)
| - | -
| - | -
| 616.50 | -
| - | 616.50
|
*
Includes some expenditure by Committees in Session 2003-04
+ Includes travel in a representative capacity
Includes a refund
3 SELECT COMMITTEE
STAFF[8]
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 2004-05 is therefore presented
Office by Office.
NUMBERS AND GRADES OF STAFF SERVING SELECT COMMITTEES
Committee Office
Principal Clerks* | 5
|
Deputy Principal/Senior Clerks | 36.6
|
Assistant Clerks | 7 |
Committee Assistants: |
|
Senior Executive Officers | 3
|
Higher Executive Officers | 19
|
Chief Office Clerks | 4
|
Senior Office Clerks | 10 |
NAO Audit Officers on secondment | 2
|
Inquiry Managers | 4.6 |
Adviser, Sentencing Guidelines | 0.8
|
Committee Specialists | 28 |
Media Officers | 3 |
Secretaries** | 30 |
Sandwich Student | 1 |
*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.
Journal Office
A Deputy Principal Clerk was also Clerk of the Procedure Committee.
An Assistant 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, 4 Clerk/Advisers with specialist
experience, 1 Assistant Clerk, 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 Counsel (European). 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 Deputy 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 Deputy 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
8 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 2004-05
were approximately £6.8m.
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