Select Committee on European Scrutiny Seventh Report


Formal minutes


Wednesday 24 January 2007

Members present:

Mr Michael Connarty, in the Chair
Mr David S Borrow

Mr William Cash

Jim Dobbin

Mr David Heathcoat-Amory

Angus Robertson

Mr Anthony Steen

Richard Younger-Ross

The Committee deliberated.

Fisheries: Mr Ben Bradshaw MP, Minister of State for Local Environment, Marine and Animal Welfare, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Mr Simon Waterfield, Head of Common Fisheries Policy Management Team, and Ms Fiona Walters, Scrutiny Co-ordinator, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, were examined.

Draft Report, proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1.1 to 7.6 read and agreed to.

Paragraphs 7.7 to 7.8 read, amended, and agreed to.

Paragraphs 7.9 to 11.6 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 11.7 read. Amendment proposed, in line 2, to leave out the words "we clear the documents." and to insert the words "we recommend the documents for debate in European Standing Committee".—(Mr William Cash.)

Question put that the Amendment be made.

Ayes, 2 Noes, 3
Mr William CashMr David S Borrow
Richard Younger-Ross Jim Dobbin
Mr David Heathcoat-Amory

Paragraph, as amended, agreed to.

Paragraphs 12.1 to 13 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report, as amended, be the Seventh Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

The Committee further deliberated.

[Adjourned till Tuesday 30 January at 3.30 p.m.


 
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