B SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE,
WORK, PUBLICATIONS ETC
18 HUMAN RIGHTS (JOINT COMMITTEE)
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The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 6 Commons Members and held 34 meetings.
Members
Dismore, Mr Andrew (Chairman)
Carswell, Mr Douglas
Creagh, Mary (discharged 22.1.07)
Griffith, Nia
Harris, Dr Evan
Shepherd, Mr Richard
Tami, Mark (added 22.1.07)
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
33
10
0
27
31
5
12
57.8 %
1
1
16.7 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Nick Walker (until 15.4.07),
Deputy Principal Clerk (SC Band 1); Dr Mark Egan (from 16.4.07),
Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Legal Adviser: Murray Hunt, (joint appointment with the House
of Lords) (SC Band 2)
Inquiry Manager: Judy Goodall (until 15.4.07), (Band A2)
Committee Specialists: Ms Angela Patrick (from 4.12.06), (Band
B1); Joanne Sawyer (from 19.2.07), (Band B1)
Committee Assistants: Miss Jackie Recardo, Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2); James Clarke (until 7.5.07), Senior Office Clerk (Band
D1) (from 1.2.07 until 31.3.07), Chief Office Clerk (Band C) (from
1.4.07); Robert Long (from 8.5.07 until 30.9.07), Senior Office
Clerk (Band D1) (until 31.7.07), Chief Office Clerk (Band C) (from
1.8.07)
Secretary: Suzanne Moezzi, Grade 2 (Band C)
Senior Office Clerk: Jacqueline Baker (from 1.10.07), (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Frances Butler, Dr Heaven Crawley, Professor Phil
Fennell, Professor Geoff Gilbert, Professor Francesca Klug, Colm
O'Cinneide, Dr Tomoya Obokata, Camilla Parker, Professor Linda
Ward and Sue Willman.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Other Ministers | 5
|
Member of the House of Lords
| 1 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Department for Constitutional Affairs
| 1 |
Department of Health |
7 |
Home Office | 7
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| |
Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
| 3 |
Children's Commissioner for England
| 2 |
Crown Prosecution Service
| 1 |
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales
| 1 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 59 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
13-16.3.07 | Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden
| Dismore | 2
| Inquiry into The Human Rights of Older Persons in Healthcare
| £4,754.64 |
A
Travel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
10-12.12.06 | Strasbourg, France and Geneva, SwitzerlandA
| | 1
| Inquiry into Human Rights Issues
| £1,455.62 |
A Lords Members took part in this visit.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
24.1.07 | Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Bedfordshire
| Dismore, Griffith | 2
| Inquiry into The Treatment of Asylum Seekers
| £180 |
22.5.07 | Barnet Primary Care Trust, London
| Dismore | 2A
| Inquiry into The Human Rights of Older Persons in Healthcare
| £176.84 |
17.10.07 | Lewisham College and Keyring, London
| Dismore | 1A
| Inquiry into The Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
| £105.75 |
24.10.07 | Home Farm Trust, Evesham
| Dismore | 1A
| Inquiry into The Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
| £157.20 |
A
Includes 1 specialist adviser
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: The Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism
| 247 | 22.1.07
| 38 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Second Report: Legislative Scrutiny: First Progress Report
| 263 | 30.1.07
| 111 | £15.50
| Not applicable |
Third Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Second Progress Report
| 287 | 2.2.07
| 72 | £14.50
| Cm 7068, published 4.4.07
|
Fourth Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Mental Health Bill
| 288 | 4.2.07
| 86 | £14.50
| Not applicable |
Fifth Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Third Progress Report
| 303 | 12.2.07
| 78 | £14.50
| Not applicable |
Sixth Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Sexual Orientation Regulations
| 350 | 28.2.07
| 27 | £8.00
| Not applicable |
Seventh Report: Deaths in Custody: Further Developments
| 364 | 7.3.07
| 62 | £13.50
| Not applicable |
Eighth Report: Counter-terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9) Order 2007
| 365 | 4.3.07
| 28 | £8.50
| Received 1.5.07: published as Fourteenth Report, Session 2006-07
|
Ninth Report: The Meaning of Public Authority under the Human Rights Act
| 410 | 28.3.07
| 123 | £15.50
| Awaited |
Tenth Report: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers
| 60-I | 30.3.07
| 126 | £15.50
| Received 14.6.07: published as Seventeenth Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers
| 60-II | 30.3.07
| 491 | £35.00
| Not applicable |
Eleventh Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Fourth Progress Report
| 424 | 30.3.07
| 36 | £10.00
| Not applicable |
Twelfth Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Fifth Progress Report
| 490 | 25.4.07
| 26 | £8.00
| Not applicable |
Thirteenth Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Sixth Progress Report
| 538 | 21.5.07
| 40 | £10.50
| Not applicable |
Fourteenth Report: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of this Session: Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: Draft Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (Continuance in force of sections 1 to 9 order 2007)
| 539 | 21.5.07
| 12 | £5.00
| Not applicable |
Fifteenth Report: Legislative Scrutiny: Seventh Progress Report
| 555 | 30.5.07
| 52 | £12.00
| Not applicable |
Sixteenth Report: Monitoring the Government's Response to Court Judgments Finding Breaches of Human Rights
| 728 | 28.6.07
| 150 | £17.50
| Not applicable |
Seventeenth Report: Government Response to the Committee's Tenth Report of this Session: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers
| 790 | 5.7.07
| 46 | £11.00
| Not applicable |
Eighteenth Report: The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare
| 378-I | 14.8.07
| 105 | £15.50
| Received 22.10.07 |
Oral and Written Evidence: The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare
| 378-II | 14.8.07
| 240 | £21.50
| Not applicable |
Nineteenth Report: Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights: 28 days, intercept and post-charge questioning
| 394 | 30.7.07
| 158 | £17.50
| Cm 7215, published 20.9.07
|
Twentieth Report: Highly Skilled Migrants: Changes to the Immigration Rules
| 993 | 9.8.07
| 28 | £8.50
| Awaited |
Twenty-First Report: Human Trafficking: Update
| 1056 | 18.10.07
| 22 | £6.50
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: Human Rights Policy
| 556-i | 10.10.07
| 16 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
| 659-i | 25.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
| 659-ii | 9.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
| 659-iii | 22.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Counter-terrorism policy and human rights
| 994-i | 20.9.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Use of Restraint in Secure Training Centres
| 1057-i | 10.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
Home Department Response to the Committee's Twenty-Sixth
Report: Human Trafficking, published as Cm 6996 (19.12.06).
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/jchr
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
22.1.07 | One, on the appointment of Frances Butler as Specialist Adviser on the older persons in healthcare inquiry
|
Debates
The following Reports were debated in Westminster
Hall:
Twenty-Fourth Report, Session 2005-06, Counter-Terrorism
Policy and Human Rights: Prosecution and Pre-Charge Detention,
HC 1576, 7.12.06
Twenty-Sixth Report, Session 2005-06, Human Trafficking,
HC 1127, 24.5.07
The following Reports were tagged on the Order Paper
as being relevant to debates in the House:
Sixteenth Report, Session 2005-06, Proposal for
a Draft Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order 2006, HC 1022,
Approval Motion for the Draft Marriage Act 1949 (Remedial) Order
2006, 25.1.07
Second Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
First Progress Report, HC 263, Remaining Stages of the Fraud
(Trials without a Jury) Bill, 25.1.07
Thirty-Second Report, Session 2005-06, The Human
Rights Act: the DCA and Home Office Reviews, HC 1716, Adjournment
debate on Human Rights: values, rights and responsibilities, 19.2.07
Third Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Second Progress Report, HC 287, Remaining Stages of the Offender
Management Bill, 28.2.07
Second Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
First Progress Report, HC 263 and Fifth Report, Session 2006-07,
Legislative Scrutiny: Third Progress Report, HC 303, Second
Reading of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill, 5.3.07
Second Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
First Progress Report, HC 263, Second Reading of the Consumers,
Estate Agents and Redress Bill [Lords], 19.3.07
Fourth Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Mental Health Bill, HC 288, Second Reading of the Mental Health
Bill [Lords], 16.4.07
Fifth Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Third Progress Report, HC 303, Lords Amendments, Justice and
Security (Northern Ireland) Bill, 10.5.07
Third Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Second Progress Report, HC 287, Second Reading of the Concessionary
Bus Travel Bill, 14.5.07
Second Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
First Progress Report, HC 263, Lords Amendments to the Corporate
Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill, 16.5.07
Eleventh Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative
Scrutiny: Fourth Progress Report, HC 424 and Thirteenth Report,
Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny: Sixth Progress Report,
HC 538, Report Stage of the Local Government and Public Involvement
in Health Bill, 22.5.07
Third Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Second Progress Report, HC 287, Second Reading of the Legal
Services Bill [Lords], 4.6.07
Fourth Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Mental Health Bill, HC 288 and Fifteenth Report, Session 2006-07,
Legislative Scrutiny: Seventh Progress Report, HC 555,
Second Reading of the Mental Health Bill [Lords], 12.6.07
Ninth Report, Session 2006-07, The Meaning of
Public Authority under the Human Rights Act, HC 410, Second
Reading of the Human Rights Act 1998 (Meaning of Public Authority)
Bill, 15.6.07
Fourth Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Mental Health Bill, HC 288, Consideration of the Mental Health
Bill [Lords], 18.6.07
Twelfth Report, Session 2006-07, Legislative Scrutiny:
Fifth Progress Report, HC 490, Consideration of the Serious
Crime Bill [Lords], 22.10.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 20 of the Committee's
34 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly
or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Counter-terrorism policy and human rights
| 4 |
Human Rights Policy |
1 |
The Human Rights of Adults with Learning Disabilities
| 3 |
The Human Rights of Older People in Healthcare
| 5 |
The Treatment of Asylum Seekers
| 6 |
The Use of Restraint in Secure Training Centres
| 1 |
Total | 20
|
19 International Development
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The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 11 Members and held 37 meetings. These included
5 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the
Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees (abbreviated
to 'QCM' in the attendance table below) and 1 concurrent meeting
with the Communities and Local Government Committee (abbreviated
to 'CLGCM' in the attendance table below).
Members
Bruce, Malcolm (Chairman)
Barrett, John (discharged 16.4.07)
Battle, John
Bayley, Hugh
Bercow, John
Burden, Richard
Davies, Mr Quentin
Duddridge, James
McKechin, Ann
Ruddock, Joan
Singh, Mr Marsha
Smith, Sir Robert (added 16.4.07)
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
36 (including 4 QCM and 1 CLGCM)
12 (including 2 QCM and 1 CLGCM)
22 (including 1 CLGCM)
15
21 (including 2 QCM)
29 (including 4 QCM)
15 (including 1 CLGCM)
27 (including 1 QCM)
31 (including 1 CLGCM)
19
19
14
59.5 %A
1
1
9.1 %
|
A Not including concurrent meetings.
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mrs Carol Oxborough, Deputy
Principal Clerk (SC Band 1)
Second Clerk: Matthew Hedges, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Specialists: Dr Anna Dickson, (Band B1); Chloe Challender,
(Band B1)
Media Officer: Alex Paterson, (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Katie Phelan (until 15.4.07), Higher Executive
Officer (Band B2); Ian Hook (from 16.4.07), Higher Executive Officer
(Band B2)
Secretary: Jenny Steele, Grade 2 (Band C)
Senior Office Clerk: Louise Glen (until 31.12.06), (shared) (Band
D1); James Bowman (from 5.3.07), (shared) (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Dr Sibylle Bauer*, Belinda Calaguas, Dr Paul Cornish*,
Dr Andrew Cotton, Professor Wendy Graham, Regina Keith, Ms Joanna
Kidd* and Simon Maxwell.
*Specialist Adviser to the Defence, Foreign Affairs,
International Development and Trade and Industry Committees in
their joint inquiry into Strategic Export Controls.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Ministers | 3
|
Other Ministers | 8
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Department for International Development
| 18 |
Other departments, comprising:
| |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
| 5 |
Executive Agencies, comprising:
| |
HM Revenue and Customs |
2 |
Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office
| 2 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 77 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
1-8.2.07 | Ethiopia
| Bruce, Barrett, Battle, Bayley, Bercow, Burden, Davies, Duddridge, McKechin, Ruddock, Singh
| 2 | Inquiry into Water and Sanitation
| £32,840.43 |
13-19.3.07 | Cape Town, South Africa
| Bayley, Davies | 1
| Seventh Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank
| £7,144.01 |
18-19.3.07 | Berlin, GermanyA
| Bruce | 1
| Conference of the Chairpersons of the Committees on Economic Cooperation and Development
| £2,098.36 |
8-18.5.07 | Vietnam and Thailand
| Bruce, Battle, Bayley, Bercow, Burden, McKechin, Singh
| 2 | Inquiries into Vietnam: DFID's Country Programme and DFID Assistance to Burmese Internally Displaced People and Refugees on the Thai Burma border
| £39,867.29 |
13-14.6.07 | Sweden A
| Bruce, Burden | 1
| Invitation by Swedish Parliament
| £2,785.80 |
7-8.10.07 | Lisbon, PortugalA
| Bruce | 1
| Chairmen of Foreign Affairs and Development Committees Conference
| £2,483.00
(estimated outturn)
|
24-30.10.07 | Afghanistan
| Bruce, Bayley, Burden, Duddridge, McKechin, Singh, Smith
| 2 | Development Assistance in Insecure Environments: Afghanistan
| £35,000
(estimated outturn)
|
A
Travel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
22-23.1.07 | Brussels, Belgium
| Bruce, Bayley, Burden, Davies, Duddridge, McKechin, Ruddock, Singh
| 4 | Inquiry into EU Development and Trade Policy: an update
| £6,073.25 |
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
28.6.07 | Edinburgh and East Kilbride, Scotland
| Bruce, Battle, Bayley, Duddridge, McKechin, Smith
| 2 | To visit MSP, NGOs and DFID Headquarters
| £4,220.53 |
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Department for International Development Departmental Report 2006
| 71 | 30.11.06
| 78 | £14.50
| Received 26.2.07: published as Third Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Second Report: HIV/AIDS: Marginalised groups and emerging epidemics
| 46-I | 1.12.06
| 21 | £6.00
| Received 26.2.07: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: HIV/AIDS: Marginalised groups and emerging epidemics
| 46-II | 19.12.06
| 68 | £3.50
| Not applicable |
Third Report: Work of the Committee in 2005-06
| 228 | 24.1.07
| 28 | £8.50
| Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
| 114-I | 31.1.07
| 72 | £72.00
| Received 29.3.07: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
| 114-II | 31.1.07
| 208 | £20.50
| Not applicable |
Fifth Report: EU Development and Trade Policies: An update
| 271 | 14.3.07
| 40 | £11.00
| Received 12.6.07: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Sixth Report: Sanitation and Water
| 126 | 25.4.07
| 79 | £14.50
| Received 10.7.07: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Sanitation and Water
| 126-II | 26.4.07
| 346 | £25.50
| Not applicable |
Seventh Report: Fair Trade and Development
| 356-I | 14.6.07
| 47 | £12.00
| Received 18.10.07: published as Eighth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Fair Trade and Development
| 356-II | 14.6.07
| 193 | £22.00
| Not applicable |
Eighth Report: Department for International Development's Programme in Vietnam
| 732 | 24.7.07
| 68 | £13.50
| Received 18.10.07: published as Ninth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Ninth Report: Prospects for Sustainable Peace in Uganda
| 853 | 24.7.07
| 70 | £14.50
| Received 18.10.07: published as Tenth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Tenth Report: DFID Assistance to Burmese Internally Displaced People and Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border
| 645-I | 25.7.07
| 58 | £11.50
| Received 23.10.07: published as Eleventh Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: DFID Assistance to Burmese Internally Displaced People and Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border
| 645-II | 25.7.07
| 155 | £16.50
| Not applicable |
Eleventh Report: Strategic Export Controls: 2007 ReviewA
| 117 | 7.8.07
| 323 | £25.00
| Awaited |
First Special Report: Conflict and Development: Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Reconstruction: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2005-06
| 172 | 19.12.06
| 18 | £0.00
| Not applicable |
A First Joint Report with the Defence, Foreign Affairs
and Trade and Industry Committees
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
Second Special Report: Humanitarian response to natural disasters: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06
| 229 | 22.1.07
| 16 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Third Special Report: DFID Departmental Report: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2006-07
| 328 | 26.2.07
| 11 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: HIV/AIDS: Marginalised groups and emerging epidemics: Government Response to the Committee's Second Report of Session 2006-07
| 329 | 26.2.07
| 7 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2006-07
| 430 | 29.3.07
| 15 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Sixth Special Report: EU Development and Trade Policies: An update: Government Response to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2006-07
| 622 | 12.6.07
| 6 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Seventh Special Report: Sanitation and Water: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2006-07
| 854 | 10.7.07
| 19 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Eighth Special Report: Fair Trade and Development: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2006-07
| 1047 | 18.10.07
| 10 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Ninth Special Report: DFID's Programme in Vietnam: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2006-07
| 1062 | 18.10.07
| 10 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Tenth Special Report: Prospects for sustainable peace in Uganda: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2006-07
| 1063 | 18.10.07
| 5 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Eleventh Special Report: Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2006-07, DFID Assistance to Burmese IDPs and Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border
| 1070 | 23.10.07
| 19 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: The Autumn Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF
| 1622B | 20.12.06
| 95 | £14.50
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: DFID Annual Report 2007
| 936-i | 23.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Maternal Health
| 1075-i | 22.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Cross-departmental Working on Development and Trade
| 1076-i | 22.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Cross-departmental Working on Development and Trade
| 1076-ii | 23.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Development Assistance in Insecure Environments: Afghanistan
| 1097-i | 26.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
B
HC No. refers to Session 2005-06
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Maternal Health
| | 11.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Development Assistance in Insecure Environments: Afghanistan
| | 11.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Cross-departmental Working on Development and Trade
| | 11.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
Reply to the Committee's Sixth Report: Conflict
and Development: Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Reconstruction,
received 19.12.06 and published as the Committee's First Special
Report, Session 2006-07.
Reply to the Committee's Seventh Report: Humanitarian
Response to Natural Disasters, received 22.1.07 and published
as the Committee's Second Special Report, Session 2006-07.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/indcom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Reports were debated in Westminster
Hall:
Fifth Report, Session 2005-06, Strategic Export
Controls: Annual Report for 2004, Quarterly Reports for 2005,
Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny, HC 873, 22.2.07
Sixth Report, Session 2005-06, Conflict and Development:
Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Reconstruction, HC 923-I,
22.3.07
Fourth Report, Session 2006-07, Development Assistance
and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, HC 114-I, 5.7.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 26 of the Committee's
37 meetings.[5]
On 2 occasions evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Cross-departmental Working on Development and Trade
| 2 |
Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories A
| 2 |
A
The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 2005-06;
figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (2005-06))
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Development Assistance in Insecure Environments: Afghanistan
| 1 |
DFID Assistance to Burmese Internally Displaced People and Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border
| 3 |
DFID Departmental Report 2007
| 1 |
EU Development and Trade Policies: An update
| 1 |
Fair Trade and Development
| 4 |
HIV/AIDS: Marginalised groups and emerging epidemics
| 1 |
Maternal Health | 1
|
Prospects for sustainable peace in Uganda
| 1 |
Sanitation and Water |
5 |
Strategic Export Controls: 2007 ReviewB
| 3 |
Vietnam: DFID's Country Programme
| 2 |
Total | 27
|
B Jointly
with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees
20 Liaison
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The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 31 Members and held 11 meetings.
Members
Williams, Mr Alan (Chairman)
Arbuthnot, Mr James
Barron, Mr Kevin
Beith, Mr Alan
Bell, Sir Stuart
Bruce, Malcolm
Connarty, Michael
Cormack, Sir Patrick
Denham, Mr John (discharged 25.7.07)
Dismore, Mr Andrew
Doran, Mr Frank
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
Francis, Dr Hywel
Gapes, Mike
Jack, Mr Michael
Knight, Mr Greg
Leigh, Mr Edward
Luff, Peter
McFall, John
McKenna, Rosemary
Maclean, David
Miller, Andrew
Rooney, Mr Terry
Sarwar, Mr Mohammad
Sheerman, Mr Barry
Starkey, Dr Phyllis
Vaz, Keith (added 25.7.07)
Whittingdale, Mr John
Willis, Mr Phil
Wright, Dr Tony
Yeo, Mr Tim
Young, Sir George
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
10
6
4
9
2
7
7
5
6
10
4
8
7
7
7
4
3
8
8
3
0
8
4
3
6
9
0
6
8
9
4
10
56.3 %
1
1
3.2 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Helen Irwin, Clerk of Committees
(SC Band 3)
Second Clerk: Robert Wilson, Principal Clerk of Select Committees
(SC Band 2)
Committee Assistant: Catherine Close, Senior Executive Officer
(Band B1) (until 21.1.07), Kevin Candy (from 22.1.07), Senior
Executive Officer (Band B1)
Secretary: Anwen Rees (until 21.1.07), Chief Office Clerk (Band
C), Catherine Close, (from 22.1.07) Grade 2 (Band C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following category of witness:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Prime Minister | 2
|
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Annual Report for 2005-06
| 406 | 17.4.07
| 85 | £14.50
| Received 22.6.07: published as First Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
First Special Report: Annual Report for 2005-06: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2006-07
| 920 | 16.7.07
| 7 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: The Prime Minister - Tuesday 6 February 2007
| 300-i | 26.3.07
| 29 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: The Prime Minister - Monday 18 June 2007
| 300-ii | 9.7.07
| 16 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/liaisoncom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 2 of the Committee's 11
meetings. On no occasion was evidence taken partly or wholly in
private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Evidence from the Prime Minister
| 2 |
Total | 2
|
20A Liaison Sub-Committee
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The Committee was nominated on 20 October 2005.
It had 9 Members and held 2 meetings.
Members
Williams, Mr Alan (Chairman)
Beith, Mr Alan
Denham, Mr John (discharged 12.7.07)
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
Jack, Mr Michael
McFall, John (added 12.7.07)
Sheerman, Mr Barry
Wright, Dr Tony
Young, Sir George
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
2
1
2
1
0
0
0
2
2
62.5 %
1
1
11.1 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Sub-Committee: Helen Irwin, Clerk of
Committees (SC Band 3)
Second Clerk: Robert Wilson, Principal Clerk of Select Committees
(SC Band 2)
Committee Assistant: Catherine Close, Senior Executive Officer
(Band B1) (until 21.1.07), Kevin Candy (from 22.1.07), Senior
Executive Officer (Band B1)
Secretary: Anwen Rees (until 21.1.07), Chief Office Clerk (Band
C), Catherine Close, (from 22.1.07) Grade 2 (Band C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
None.
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
None.
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
Not applicable.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Sub-Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Sub-Committee. They are
available on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/liaisoncom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Oral Evidence
None.
21 Modernisation of
the House of Commons
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/modcom
The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 15 Members and held 16 meetings.
Members
Harman, Ms Harriet (Chairman from 10.10.07) (added 25.7.07)
Bryant, Chris (added 25.7.07)
Burstow, Mr Paul (discharged 25.10.07)
Butler, Ms Dawn
Coffey, Ann
Davies, Philip (added 12.3.07)
Howarth, Mr George
Hughes, Simon (added 25.10.07)
Knight, Mr Greg
Lazarowicz, Mark
May, Mrs Theresa
Sanders, Mr Adrian
Shepherd, Mr Richard
Soulsby, Sir Peter (added 7.2.07)
Straw, Mr Jack (Chairman until 25.7.07) (discharged 25.7.07)
Stringer, Graham (discharged 7.12.06)
Tipping, Paddy (discharged 25.7.07)
Vaizey, Mr Edward (discharged 12.3.07)
Waltho, Lynda (discharged 7.2.07)
Winterton, Sir Nicholas
Wright, Mr Iain (added 7.12.06)
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
1
2
8
10
11
9
7
0
9
15
12
14
12
10
13
0
9
0
1
14
11
70.0 %
6
6
40.0 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Helen Irwin, Clerk of Committees
(SC Band 3)
Second Clerk: Gordon Clarke, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Assistant: Ms Susan Morrison, Chief Office Clerk (Band
C)
Secretary: Ms Jane Cooper, Grade 2 (Band C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Members of Parliament |
12 |
Member of the House of Lords
| 1 |
Officers of the House of Commons
| 3 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Hansard Society | 1
|
Media | 3
|
Appearances by other witnesses
| 5 |
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Revitalising the Chamber: the role of the back bench Member
| 337 | 20.6.07
| 204 | £22.00
| Cm 7231, published 18.10.07
|
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/modcom.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
13.6.07 | Seventeen, on consideration of the draft Report on Revitalising the Chamber: the role of the back bench Member
|
10.10.07 | One, on a Motion to appoint a Chairman
|
Debates
The following Report was debated in the House:
First Report, Session 2006-07, Revitalising the
Chamber: the role of the back bench Member, HC 337, 25.10.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 6 of the Committee's 16
meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly
or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Revitalising the Chamber: the role of the back bench Member (incorporating Strengthening the role of the backbencher and making better use of non-legislative time)
| 6 |
Total | 6
|
22 Northern Ireland
Affairs
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/niacom
The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 13 Members and held 28 meetings.
Members
Cormack, Sir Patrick (Chairman)
Anderson, Mr David
Battle, John
Campbell, Mr Gregory
Cooper, Rosie
Fraser, Mr Christopher
Grogan, Mr John
Hepburn, Mr Stephen
Hermon, Lady
McDonnell, Dr Alasdair
Murphy, Mr Denis
Pound, Stephen
Wilson, Sammy
Overall Attendance:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
27
22
18
19
12
19
11
13
20
22
21
22
25
69.0 %
0.0 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: James Rhys (until 31.10.07),
Deputy Principal Clerk (SC Band 1)
Inquiry Manager: Judy Goodall (from 16.4.07), (Band A2)
Committee Specialist: Dr Aileen O'Neill (until 28.2.07), (Band
B1)
Media Officer: Laura Kibby, (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Paul Derrett (until 22.8.07), Higher Executive
Officer (Band B2); Duma Langton (from 1.10.07), Higher Executive
Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Jennifer Kelly (until 30.9.07), Grade 2 (Band C); Rebecca
Crew (from 1.10.07), Grade 2 (Band C) / Annabel Goddard (from
1.10.07), Grade 2 (Band C) / Ms Karen Watling (from 1.10.07),
Grade 2 (Band C), (shared)
Senior Office Clerk: Jim Lawford, (shared) (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Minister | 1
|
Ministers other than Cabinet Ministers
| 4 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Northern Ireland Office
| 5 |
Other departments, comprising:
| |
Home Office | 1
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| |
Community Relations Council
| 1 |
Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland
| 1 |
Life Sentence Review Commissioners
| 1 |
Northern Ireland Tourist Board
| 3 |
Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
| 2 |
Probation Board for Northern Ireland
| 2 |
Executive Agencies, comprising:
| |
Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 2 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 33 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
22-23.1.07 | Dublin, Republic of Ireland
| Cormack, Anderson, Fraser, Hepburn, McDonnell, Murphy, Pound
| 2 | Inquiry into Tourism in Northern Ireland and its Economic Impact and Benefits
| £6,291.34 |
16-17.10.07 | Dublin, Republic of Ireland
| Cormack, Anderson, Hepburn, McDonnell, Murphy, Pound
| 3A | Inquiry into the Northern Ireland Prison Service
| £4,111.34 (estimated outturn)
|
A
Includes 1 specialist adviser
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
3-4.12.06 | Belfast and Bangor
| Cormack, Anderson, Battle, Campbell, Fraser, Hermon, McDonnell, Murphy, Wilson
| 4A | Inquiry into Community Restorative Justice
| £8,837.63 |
23-24.4.07 | Belfast and Limavady
| Cormack, Anderson, Battle, Cooper, Hepburn, Hermon
| 4B | Inquiry into the Northern Ireland Prison Service
| £3,356.02 |
10-11.7.07 | Belfast
| Cormack, Anderson, Battle, Campbell, Fraser, Hepburn, Hermon, McDonnell, Murphy, Wilson
| 4B | Inquiry into the Northern Ireland Prison Service
| £6,548.81 |
A
Includes a shorthand writer
B
Includes 1 specialist adviser
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
14-16.10.07 | Belfast
| Cormack, Anderson, Campbell, Hepburn, Hermon, McDonnell, Murphy, Pound, Wilson
| 5C | Inquiry into the Northern Ireland Prison Service
| £3,333.70 |
C
Includes 1 specialist adviser and 1 shorthand writer
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Draft Protocol for Community-based Restorative Justice Schemes
| 87 | 25.1.07
| 147 | £17.50
| Received 30.4.07: published as First Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Second Report: Work of the Committee in 2006
| 294 | 7.2.07
| 47 | £2.00
| Not applicable |
Third Report: Tourism in Northern Ireland and its Economic Impact and Benefits
| 119 | 15.3.07
| 212 | £22.00
| Received 23.5.07: published as Second Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
First Special Report: Draft Protocol for Community-based Restorative Justice Schemes: Government Response to the Committee's First Report of Session 2006-07
| 475 | 30.4.07
| 9 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Tourism in Northern Ireland and its Economic Impact and Benefits: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2006-07
| 545 | 23.5.07
| 12 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: The Assets Recovery Agency
| 417 | 17.5.07
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Political Developments in Northern Ireland
| 476 | 15.8.07
| 18 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-i | 15.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-ii | 22.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-iii | 12.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-iv | 20.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-v | 2.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-vi | 12.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-vii | 15.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-viii | 24.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 520-ix | 30.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/niacom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:
Third Report, Session 2005-06, Organised Crime
in Northern Ireland, HC 886, 30.11.06
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 19 of the Committee's
28 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly
or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Community Restorative Justice
| 4 |
Political Developments in Northern Ireland
| 1 |
The Assets Recovery Agency
| 1 |
The Northern Ireland Prison Service
| 9 |
Tourism in Northern Ireland and its Economic Impact and Benefits
| 4 |
Total | 19
|
23 Procedure
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/proccom
The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 13 Members and held 10 meetings.
Members
Knight, Mr Greg (Chairman)
Barlow, Ms Celia
Chope, Mr Christopher
Clark, Ms Katy
Gale, Mr Roger (added 11.6.07)
Gauke, Mr David (discharged 11.6.07)
Gwynne, Andrew
Hemming, John
Illsley, Mr Eric
James, Mrs Siân
McKenna, Rosemary
Riordan, Mrs Linda
Smith, Sir Robert
Wilson, Mr Rob
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
10
8
6
1
3
3
4
9
0
2
9
2
10
5
55.4 %
1
1
7.7 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mark Hutton, Deputy Principal
Clerk (SC Band 1)
Second Clerk: Keith Neary, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (until 30.9.07),
Senior Clerk (Band A2) (from 1.10.07)
Committee Assistant: Ms Susan Morrison, Chief Office Clerk (Band
C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Minister | 1
|
Members of Parliament |
6 |
Officers of the House of Commons
| 2 |
Appearance by other witness
| 1 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
29-30.11.06 | Berlin, Germany
| Knight, Barlow, Gwynne, McKenna, Smith
| 2 | Inquiry into Public Petitions
| £6,974.23 |
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
7.3.07 | No. 10 Downing Street
| Knight, Barlow, Chope, Hemming, Smith, Wilson
| 2 | Inquiry into Public Petitions
| Nil |
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Public Petitions and Early Day Motions
| 513 | 22.5.07
| 92 | £14.50
| Cm 7193, published 26.7.07
|
Second Report: Corrections to the Official Report
| 541 | 5.6.07
| 15 | £6.50
| Government Motion to Approve agreed to 19.6.07
|
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Written Parliamentary Questions
| | 22.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Corrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Written Parliamentary Questions
| 336-i | 17.4.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Corrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Written Parliamentary Questions
| 366-ii | 20.4.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/proccom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Report was debated in the House:
First Report, Session 2006-07, Public Petitions
and Early Day Motions, HC 513, 25.10.07
The following Report was approved in the House:
Second Report, Session 2006-07, Corrections to
the Official Report, HC 541, 19.6.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 4 of the Committee's 10
meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly
or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Early Day MotionsA
| 1 |
Public Petitions | 1
|
Written Parliamentary Questions
| 2 |
Total | 4
|
A
The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 2005-06;
figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (2005-06))
24 Public Accounts
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/pac
The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 16 Members and held 53 meetings.
Members
Leigh, Mr Edward (Chairman)
Bacon, Mr Richard
Brooke, Annette
Browning, Angela (added 16.7.07)
Bryant, Chris (added 4.6.07)
Clark, Greg (discharged 16.7.07)
Curry, Mr David
Davidson, Mr Ian
Dunne, Mr Philip
Goodman, Helen (discharged 4.6.07)
Healey, John
Khan, Mr Sadiq (discharged 4.6.07)
Lucas, Ian (added 4.6.07)
McCarthy-Fry, Sarah (discharged 26.3.07)
Mitchell, Mr Austin
Pugh, Dr John
Touhig, Mr Don
Ussher, Kitty (discharged 15.1.07)
Williams, Mr Alan
Wright, Mr Iain (added 15.1.07)
Wyatt, Derek (added 26.3.07)
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
46
39
13
4
2
0
18
27
33
19
0
26
6
0
43
27
30
0
36
21
11
47.2 %
5
5
31.3 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mark Etherton, Senior Clerk
(Band A2)
Media Officer: Luke Robinson (until 31.3.07), (shared) (Band B1);
Alex Paterson (from 1.4.07), (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistants: Christine Randall (until 31.12.06), Higher
Executive Officer (Band B2); Philip Jones (from 1.1.07), Higher
Executive Officer (Band B2); Ms Emma Sawyer, Chief Office Clerk
(Band C)
Secretary: Ms Pam Morris, Grade 2 (Band C); Oliver Denton (until
23.12.06), (temporary); Mrs Anna Browning (from 8.1.07 until 26.7.07),
(temporary)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Cabinet Office | 1
|
Department of Health |
7 |
Department of Trade and Industry
| 2 |
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
| 1 |
Department for Communities and Local Government
| 2 |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
| 1 |
Department for Education and Skills
| 3 |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
| 3 |
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
| 1 |
Department for International Development
| 2 |
Department for Transport
| 4 |
Department for Work and Pensions
| 3 |
HM Treasury | 52
|
Home Office | 1
|
Ministry of Defence |
3 |
Executive Agencies, comprising:
| 10 |
Defence Estates | 1
|
Disability and Carers Service
| 1 |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
| 2 |
Driving Standards Agency
| 1 |
Highways Agency | 1
|
Identity and Passport Service
| 1 |
Jobcentre Plus | 1
|
OGCbuying.solutions |
1 |
Pension Service | 1
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| 80 |
Assets Recovery Agency |
1 |
BBC | 2
|
Environment Agency |
1 |
Heritage Lottery Fund |
1 |
Higher Education Funding Council for England
| 1 |
HM Revenue and Customs |
5 |
Housing Corporation |
1 |
Learning and Skills Council
| 1 |
Legal Services Commission
| 1 |
National Audit Office |
52 |
Natural England | 1
|
Northern Ireland Audit Office
| 1 |
Office of Government Commerce
| 4 |
Office of Rail Regulation
| 1 |
Ofwat | 1
|
Olympic Delivery Authority
| 1 |
Science and Technology Facilities Council
| 1 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 5 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
21-22.1.07 | Paris, FranceA
| Leigh |
| 200th anniversary of French NAO
| £383.00 |
20-24.5.07 | Copenhagen, Denmark and Stockholm, Sweden
| Leigh, Dunne, Mitchell, Pugh
| 2 | Visit overseas audit institutions
| £6,738.08 |
11-13.7.07 | Lisbon, PortugalA
| Leigh |
| To discuss matters of EU scrutiny
| £921.80 |
A
Travel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
20-21.11.06 | Brussels, BelgiumA
| Touhig |
| Attend Workshop of the EU Committee on Budgetary Control
| £499.77 |
A
Travel in a representative capacity
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
29.11.06 | Rubicon Housing Complex, GreenwichA
| Leigh | 1
| Inquiry into Low Cost Home Ownership
| £61.54 |
6.3.07 | City of London Academy
| Leigh, Bacon, Khan, Mitchell, Touhig
| 2 | Inquiry into the Academies Programme
| £96.90 |
9.5.07 | Diamond Synchrotron facility, Harwell
| Leigh, Dunne | 1
| Inquiry into Big Science
| £381.88 |
5.6.07 | Thames Gateway
| Leigh, Curry, Davidson, Pugh, Touhig, Wyatt
| 2 | Inquiry into the Thames Gateway: Laying the Foundations
| £163.10 |
19.6.07 | River Lee, Waltham Forest
| Leigh, Bacon | 1
| Inquiry into Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England
| £564.00 |
A
Travel in a representative capacity
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Tsunami: Provision of Support for humanitarian assistance
| 25 | 23.11.06
| 35 | £10.00
| Cm 7018, published 8.2.07
|
Second Report: Improving literacy and numeracy in schools (Northern Ireland)
| 108 | 8.12.06
| 37 | £10.00
| Cm 7035, published 13.2.07
|
Third Report: Collections management in the national museums and galleries of Northern Ireland
| 109 | 13.12.06
| 30 | £10.00
| Cm 7035, published 13.2.07
|
Fourth Report: Gas distribution networks: Ofgem's role in their sale, restructuring and future regulation
| 110 | 11.1.07
| 39 | £10.00
| Cm 7019, published 8.3.07
|
Fifth Report: Postcomm and quality mail services
| 111 | 12.12.06
| 39 | £10.00
| Cm 7018, published 8.2.07
|
Sixth Report: Gaining and retaining a job: the Department for Work and Pensions' support for disabled people
| 112 | 16.1.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Cm 7019, published 8.3.07
|
Seventh Report: Department for Work and Pensions: Using leaflets to communicate with the public about services and entitlements
| 133 | 23.1.07
| 33 | £10.00
| Cm 7020, published 29.3.07
|
Eighth Report: Tackling child obesity - first steps
| 157 | 25.1.07
| 47 | £12.00
| Cm 7020, published 29.3.07
|
Ninth Report: The Paddington Health Campus scheme
| 244 | 30.1.07
| 51 | £12.00
| Cm 7076, published 26.4.07
|
Tenth Report: Fines Collection
| 245 | 31.1.07
| 32 | £10.00
| Cm 7020, published 29.3.07
|
Eleventh Report: Supporting Small Business
| 262 | 6.2.07
| 31 | £10.00
| Cm 7076, published 26.4.07
|
Twelfth Report: Excess Votes 2005-06
| 346 | 1.3.07
| 13 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Thirteenth Report: Smarter Food Procurement in the Public Sector
| 357 | 6.3.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Fourteenth Report: Ministry of Defence: Delivering digital tactical communications through the Bowman CIP Programme
| 358 | 8.3.07
| 42 | £11.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Fifteenth Report: The termination of the PFI contract for the National Physical Laboratory
| 359 | 13.3.07
| 29 | £11.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Sixteenth Report: The provision of out-of-hours care in England
| 360 | 14.3.07
| 46 | £11.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Seventeenth Report: Financial management in the NHS
| 361 | 20.3.07
| 52 | £12.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Eighteenth Report: DFID: Working with Non-Governmental and other Civil Society Organisations to promote development
| 64 | 22.3.07
| 34 | £10.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Nineteenth Report: A Foot on the Ladder: Low Cost Home Ownership Assistance
| 134 | 27.3.07
| 46 | £12.00
| Cm 7077, published 26.4.07
|
Twentieth Report: The National Programme for IT in the NHS
| 361 | 11.4.07
| 177 | £20.00
| Cm 7152, published 25.7.07
|
Twenty-First Report: Progress in Combat Identification
| 486 | 1.5.07
| 30 | £8.50
| Cm 7151, published 5.7.07
|
Twenty-Second Report: Tax Credits
| 487 | 3.5.07
| 44 | £10.50
| Cm 7151, published 5.7.07
|
Twenty-Third Report: The office accommodation of Department of Culture, Media and Sport and its sponsored bodies
| 488 | 8.5.07
| 71 | £14.50
| Cm 7152, published 25.7.07
|
Twenty-Fourth Report: Ofwat: Meeting the demand for water
| 286 | 10.5.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Cm 7151, published 5.7.07
|
Twenty-Fifth Report: Update on PFI debt refinancing and the PFI equity market
| 158 | 15.5.07
| 71 | £14.50
| Cm 7152, published 25.7.07
|
Twenty-Sixth Report: Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements
| 169 | 17.5.07
| 38 | £11.00
| Cm 7152, published 25.7.07
|
Twenty-Seventh Report: Delivering successful IT-enabled business change
| 113 | 5.6.07
| 39 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Twenty-Eighth Report: ASPIRE - The re-competition of outsourced IT services
| 179 | 12.6.07
| 43 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Twenty-Ninth Report: Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in NHS acute and foundation trusts
| 142 | 7.6.07
| 39 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirtieth Report: The Modernisation of the West Coast Main Line
| 189 | 14.6.07
| 47 | £12.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-First Report: Central government's use of consultants
| 309 | 19.6.07
| 44 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Second Report: Right of access to open countryside
| 91 | 21.6.07
| 45 | £10.50
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Third Report: Assessing the value for money of OGCbuying.solutions
| 275 | 26.6.07
| 34 | £10.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Fourth Report: Recruitment and retention in the armed forces
| 43 | 3.7.07
| 36 | £10.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Fifth Report: BBC outsourcing: the contract between the BBC and Siemens Business Services
| 118 | 28.6.07
| 41 | £11.00
| BBC Trustees' Response, received 12.10.07: published as First Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Thirty-Sixth Report: Reserve Forces
| 729 | 12.7.07
| 40 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Seventh Report: Child Support Agency: implementation of the child support reforms
| 812 | 5.7.07
| 46 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Eighth Report: Sure Start Children's Centres
| 261 | 17.7.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Thirty-Ninth Report: Preparations for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games - risk assessment and management
| 377 | 10.7.07
| 48 | £12.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Fortieth Report: Dr Foster Intelligence: a joint venture between the Information Centre and Dr Foster LLP
| 368 | 18.7.07
| 40 | £10.50
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Forty-First Report: Improving procurement in further education colleges in England
| 477 | 4.10.07
| 28 | £8.50
| Awaited |
Forty-Second Report: The Shareholder Executive and public sector businesses
| 409 | 20.9.07
| 38 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Forty-Third Report: The restructuring of British Energy
| 892 | 19.7.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Forty-Fourth Report: Tackling anti-social behaviour
| 246 | 24.7.07
| 50 | £12.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Forty-Fifth Report: VAT Missing Trader Fraud
| 250 | 26.7.07
| 40 | £11.00
| Cm 7216, published 11.10.07
|
Forty-Sixth Report: Major Projects Report 2006
| 295 | 11.9.07
| 45 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Forty-Seventh Report: Improving quality and safety - Progress in implementing clinical governance in primary care: Lessons for the new Primary Care Trusts
| 302 | 13.9.07
| 36 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Forty-Eighth Report: The Efficiency Programme: A second review of progress
| 349 | 11.10.07
| 38 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Forty-Ninth Report: Introduction of ePassports
| 362 | 10.10.07
| 44 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Fiftieth Report: Assets Recovery Agency
| 391 | 12.10.07
| 49 | £12.00
| Awaited |
Fifty-First Report: Legal Aid and mediation for people involved in family breakdown
| 396 | 16.10.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Fifty-Second Report: The Academies Programme
| 402 | 18.10.07
| 44 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Fifty-Third Report: Helping newly registered businesses meet their tax obligations
| 489 | 25.10.07
| 37 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Fifty-Fourth Report: Heritage Lottery Fund
| 502 | 23.10.07
| 58 | £13.50
| Awaited |
Fifty-Fifth Report: The delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England
| 893 | 6.9.07
| 63 | £13.50
| Awaited |
Fifty-Sixth Report: Jobcentre Plus: Delivering effective services through personal advisers
| 312 | 9.10.07
| 29 | £8.50
| Awaited |
Fifty-Seventh Report: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Reducing reliance on landfill
| 212 | 30.10.07
| 55 | £12.00
| Awaited |
Fifty-Eighth Report: Estimating and monitoring the costs of building roads in England
| 426 | 8.11.07
| 42 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Fifty-Ninth Report: Pay modernisation: A new contract for NHS Consultants in England
| 506 | 22.11.07
| 38 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Sixtieth Report: Big Science: Public investment in large scientific facilities
| 521 | 13.11.07
| 34 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Sixty-First Report: Managing the Defence Estate
| 537 | 29.11.07
| 29 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Sixty-Second Report: Thames Gateway: Laying the foundations
| 693 | 15.11.07
| 39 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Sixty-Third Report: HMT: Tendering and benchmarking in PFI
| 754 | 27.11.07
| 34 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Sixty-Fourth Report: The management of staff sickness in the DfT and its agencies
| 791 | 20.11.07
| 41 | £11.00
| Awaited |
Sixty-Fifth Report: HMRC: Filing of VAT and Company Tax Returns
| 548 | 4.12.07
| 31 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Sixty-Sixth Report: The BBC's management of risk
| 643 | 6.12.07
| 32 | £10.00
| Awaited |
First Special Report: BBC outsourcing: the contract between the BBC and Siemens Business Services: The response of the BBC Trustees to the Committee's Thirty-fifth report of Session 2006-07
| 1067 | 19.10.07
| 7 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: National Audit Office Supply Estimate 2007-08
| 347-i | 22.6.07
| 7 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Northern Ireland Audit Office Supply Estimate 2007-08
| 348-i | 22.6.07
| 1 | £2.00
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: DFID: Tackling rural poverty
| 599-i | 4.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Prescribing costs in primary care
| 670-i | 11.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Building for the Future: Sustainable Construction and Refurbishment on the Government Estate
| 740-i | 18.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England
| 813-i | 27.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: HM Revenue & Customs: Tax Credits and PAYE
| 1061-i | 10.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Improving services and support for people with dementia
| 1068-i | 15.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Vehicle Excise Duty
| 1082-i | 17.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Coal Health Compensation Schemes
| 1094-i | 22.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Helping people from workless households into work
| 1105-i | 24.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Staying the Course: The Retention of Students in Higher Education
| 1074-i | 29.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
Reply to the Committee's Fifty-Eighth Report: Enhancing
urban green spaces, published as Cm 6981 (14.12.06).
Reply to the Committee's Fifty-Ninth Report: Improving
poorly performing schools, published as Cm 6981 (14.12.06).
Reply to the Committee's Sixty-First Report: Crown
Prosecution Service: Effective use of magistrates' courts hearings,
published as Cm 6981 (14.12.06).
Reply to the Committee's Sixty-Second Report: The
electronic monitoring of offenders, published as Cm 6981 (14.12.06).
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/pac.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Reports and Special Report were debated
in the House:
Thirty-Fifth Report, Session 2005-06, The refinancing
of the Norfolk and Norwich PFI Hospital, HC 694, Forty-Third
Report, Session 2005-06, Delivery chain analysis for bus services
in England, HC 851, Forty-Fourth Report, Session 2005-06,
National Offender Management Service: dealing with increased
numbers in custody, HC 788, Forty-Fifth Report, Session 2005-06,
Employers' perspectives on improving skills for employment,
HC 862, Forty-Sixth Report, Session 2005-06, Governance issues
in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment's former
Local Enterprise Development Unit, HC 918, Forty-Seventh Report,
Session 2005-06, NHS Local Improvement Finance Trusts,
HC 562, Forty-Eighth Report, Session 2005-06, HM Customs and
Excise: Standard Report 2004-05, HC 874, Forty-Ninth Report,
Session 2005-06, Corporation Tax: companies managed by HM Revenue
and Customs' Area Offices, HC 967, Fiftieth Report, Session
2005-06, Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 2005,
HC 889, Fifty-First Report, Session 2005-06, A safer place
for patients: learning to improve patient safety, HC 831,
Fifty-Second Report, Session 2005-06, Reducing brain damage:
faster access to better stroke care, HC 911, Fifty-Third Report,
Session 2005-06, Department for Work and Pensions: Delivering
effective services through contact centres, HC 1034, Fifty-Fourth
Report, Session 2005-06, UK Sport: Supporting elite athletes,
HC 898, Fifty-Fifth Report, Session 2005-06, Progress in improving
government efficiency, HC 978, Fifty-Sixth Report, Session
2005-06, Serving time: prisoner diet and exercise, HC 1063,
Fifty-Seventh Report, Session 2005-06, The closure of MG Rover,
HC 1003, Fifty-Eighth Report, Session 2005-06, Enhancing urban
green spaces, HC 1073, Fifty-Ninth Report, Session 2005-06,
Improving poorly performing schools, HC 956, Sixtieth Report,
Session 2005-06, Home Office Resource Accounts 2004-05 and
follow-up on Returning failed asylum seekers, HC 1079, Sixty-First
Report, Session 2005-06, Crown Prosecution Service: Effective
use of magistrates' courts hearings, HC 982, Sixty-Second
Report, Session 2005-06, The electronic monitoring of offenders,
HC 997, Sixty-Third Report, Session 2005-06, Delivering high
quality public services for all, HC 1530, First Report, Session
2006-07, Tsunami: Provision of Support for humanitarian assistance,
HC 25, Second Report, Session 2006-07, Improving literacy and
numeracy in schools (Northern Ireland), HC 108, Third Report,
Session 2006-07, Collections management in the national museums
and galleries of Northern Ireland, HC 109, Fourth Report,
Session 2006-07, Gas distribution networks: Ofgem's role in
their sale, restructuring and future regulation, HC 110, Fifth
Report, Session 2006-07, Postcomm and quality mail services,
HC 111, Sixth Report, Session 2006-07, Gaining and retaining
a job: the Department for Work and Pensions' support for disabled
people, HC 112, Seventh Report, Session 2006-07, Department
for Work and Pensions: Using leaflets to communicate with the
public about services and entitlements, HC 133, Eighth Report,
Session 2006-07, Tackling child obesity - first steps,
HC 157 and Tenth Report, Session 2006-07, Fines Collection,
HC 245, 19.4.07
Ninth Report, Session 2006-07, The Paddington
Health Campus scheme, HC 244, Eleventh Report, Session 2006-07,
Supporting Small Business, HC 262, Thirteenth Report, Session
2006-07, Smarter Food Procurement in the Public Sector,
HC 357, Fourteenth Report, Session 2006-07, Ministry of Defence:
Delivering digital tactical communications through the Bowman
CIP Programme, HC 358, Fifteenth Report, Session 2006-07,
The termination of the PFI contract for the National Physical
Laboratory, HC 359, Sixteenth Report, Session 2006-07,
The provision of out-of-hours care in England, HC 360,
Seventeenth Report, Session 2006-07, Financial management in
the NHS, HC 361, Eighteenth Report, Session 2006-07, DFID:
Working with Non-Governmental and other Civil Society Organisations
to promote development, HC 64, Nineteenth Report, Session
2006-07, A Foot on the Ladder: Low Cost Home Ownership Assistance,
HC 134, Twentieth Report, Session 2006-07, The National Programme
for IT in the NHS, HC 361, Twenty-First Report, Session 2006-07,
Progress in Combat Identification, HC 486, Twenty-Second
Report, Session 2006-07, Tax Credits, HC 487, Twenty-Third
Report, Session 2006-07, The office accommodation of Department
of Culture, Media and Sport and its sponsored bodies, HC 488,
Twenty-Fourth Report, Session 2006-07, Ofwat: Meeting the demand
for water, HC 286, Twenty-Fifth Report, Session 2006-07, Update
on PFI debt refinancing and the PFI equity market, HC 158,
Twenty-Sixth Report, Session 2006-07, Progress in tackling
pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements, HC
169, Twenty-Seventh Report, Session 2006-07, Delivering successful
IT-enabled business change, HC 113, Twenty-Eighth Report,
Session 2006-07, ASPIRE - The re-competition of outsourced
IT services, HC 179, Twenty-Ninth Report, Session 2006-07,
Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in NHS acute and
foundation trusts, HC 142, Thirtieth Report, Session 2006-07,
The Modernisation of the West Coast Main Line, HC 189,
Thirty-First Report, Session 2006-07, Central government's
use of consultants, HC 309, Thirty-Second Report, Session
2006-07, Right of access to open countryside, HC 91, Thirty-Third
Report, Session 2006-07, Assessing the value for money of OGCbuying.solutions,
HC 275, Thirty-Fourth Report, Session 2006-07, Recruitment
and retention in the armed forces, HC 43, Thirty-Fifth Report,
Session 2006-07, BBC outsourcing: the contract between the
BBC and Siemens Business Services, HC 118, Thirty-Sixth Report,
Session 2006-07, Reserve Forces, HC 729, Thirty-Seventh
Report, Session 2006-07, Child Support Agency: implementation
of the child support reforms, HC 812, Thirty-Eighth Report,
Session 2006-07, Sure Start Children's Centres, HC 261,
Thirty-Ninth Report, Session 2006-07, Preparations for the
London Olympic and Paralympic Games - risk assessment and management,
HC 377, Fortieth Report, Session 2006-07, Dr Foster Intelligence:
a joint venture between the Information Centre and Dr Foster LLP,
HC 368, Forty-Third Report, Session 2006-07, The restructuring
of British Energy, HC 892, Forty-Fourth Report, Session
2006-07, Tackling anti-social behaviour, HC 246, Forty-Fifth
Report, Session 2006-07, VAT Missing Trader Fraud, HC 250
and First Special Report, Session 2006-07, BBC outsourcing:
the contract between the BBC and Siemens Business Services: The
response of the BBC Trustees to the Committee's Thirty-fifth report
of Session 2006-07, HC 1067, 23.10.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 52 of the Committee's
53 meetings.[6]
On 3 occasions evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
A Foot on the Ladder: Low Cost Home Ownership
| 1 |
Assets Recovery Agency |
1 |
BBC outsourcing: The contract between the BBC and Siemens Business Services for the provision of technology services
| 1 |
Big Science: Public investment in large scientific facilities
| 1 |
Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England
| 1 |
Building for the Future: Sustainable Construction and Refurbishment on the Government Estate
| 1 |
Central government's use of consultants
| 1 |
Coal Health Compensation Schemes
| 1 |
Delivering successful IT-enabled business change
| 1 |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Reducing reliance on landfill
| 1 |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: The right of access to open countryside
| 1 |
Department for International Development: Working with Non-Governmental and other Civil Society Organisations to promote development
| 1 |
Dr Foster Intelligence: a joint venture between the Information Centre and Dr Foster LLP
| 1 |
Estimating and monitoring the costs of building roads in England
| 1 |
Filing VAT and Company Tax Returns
| 1 |
Helping newly registered businesses meet their tax obligations
| 1 |
Helping people from workless households into work
| 1 |
Heritage Lottery Fund |
1 |
HM Revenue & Customs: ASPIRE - the re-competition of outsourced IT services
| 1 |
Identity and Passport Service: Introduction of ePassports
| 1 |
Improving procurement in further education colleges in England
| 1 |
Improving quality and safety: Progress in implementing clinical governance in primary care: Lessons for the New Primary Care Trusts
| 1 |
Improving services and support for people with dementia
| 1 |
Improving the PFI tendering process; Benchmarking and market testing the ongoing services component of PFI projects
| 1 |
Improving the use of temporary nursing staff in NHS acute and foundation trusts
| 1 |
Jobcentre Plus: Delivering effective services through personal advisers
| 1 |
Legal Aid and mediation for people involved in family breakdown
| 1 |
Managing the defence estate: quality and sustainability
| 1 |
Ministry of Defence: Major Projects Report 2006
| 1 |
National Audit Office Supply Estimate 2007-08
| 1 |
Northern Ireland Audit Office Supply Estimate 2007-08
| 1 |
Ofwat: Meeting the demand for water
| 1 |
OGCbuying.solutions |
1 |
Pay modernisation: A new contract for NHS consultants in England
| 1 |
Prescribing costs in primary care
| 1 |
Progress in tackling pensioner poverty: encouraging take-up of entitlements
| 1 |
Recruitment and retention in the armed forces
| 1 |
Staging the London Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012
| 1 |
Sure Start Children's Centres
| 1 |
Tackling anti-social behaviour
| 1 |
Tackling rural poverty in developing countries
| 1 |
Tax Credits and PAYE |
1 |
The Academies Programme
| 1 |
The BBC's management of risk
| 1 |
The delays in administering the 2005 Single Payment Scheme in England
| 1 |
The Efficiency Programme: A second review of progress
| 1 |
The management of staff sickness in the Department of Transport and its agencies
| 1 |
The Modernisation of the West Coast Main Line
| 1 |
The National Programme for IT in the NHS
| 1 |
The Retention of Students in Higher Education
| 1 |
The Shareholder Executive and public sector businesses
| 1 |
The Thames Gateway: Laying the Foundations
| 1 |
Update on PFI debt refinancing and the PFI equity market
| 1 |
VAT Missing Trader Fraud
| 1 |
Vehicle Excise Duty |
1 |
Total | 55
|
25 Public Administration
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The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 11 Members and held 33 meetings.
Members
Wright, Dr Tony (Chairman)
Burrowes, Mr David
Flynn, Paul
Heyes, David
Hopkins, Kelvin
Liddell-Grainger, Mr Ian
Morgan, Julie
Prentice, Mr Gordon
Rowen, Paul
Shapps, Grant (discharged 26.2.07)
Walker, Mr Charles (added 26.2.07)
Willott, Jenny
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
33
16
21
23
30
16
20
32
16
1
18
17
66.9 %
1
1
9.1 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Eve Samson, Deputy Principal
Clerk (SC Band 1)
Second Clerk: James Gerard, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Specialist: Lucinda Maer (until 4.6.07), (Band B1)
Media Officer: Jessica Bridges-Palmer, (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Philip Jones (until 31.12.06), Higher Executive
Officer (Band B2); Anna Watkins (from 1.1.07 until 30.9.07), Higher
Executive Officer (Band B2); Louise Glen (from 1.10.07), Higher
Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Mrs Anna Browning (until 19.12.06), (temporary); Louise
Glen (from 1.1.07), Grade 2 (Band C) (until 30.9.07); Anne Woolhouse
(from 8.10.07), (temporary)
Senior Office Clerk: Louise Glen, (shared) (Band D1) (until 31.12.06);
James Bowman (from 5.3.07), (shared) (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Robert Hazell, Pauline Ngan, Christopher
Sallon QC and Barry Winetrobe.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Minister | 1
|
Other Minister | 1
|
Members of the House of Commons
| 3 |
Members of the House of Lords
| 5 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Cabinet Office | 5
|
Department for Education and Skills
| 1 |
Department for Work and Pensions
| 1 |
Ministry of Defence |
2 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| |
Audit Commission | 1
|
Charity Commission |
1 |
Commission for the Compact
| 1 |
Committee on Standards in Public Life
| 1 |
Crown Prosecution Service
| 1 |
Futurebuilders | 1
|
HM Revenue and Customs |
1 |
House of Lords Appointments Commission
| 1 |
Information Commission |
2 |
Metropolitan Police |
1 |
Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments
| 1 |
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
| 2 |
Executive Agencies, comprising:
| |
Disability and Carers Service
| 1 |
Identity and Passport Service
| 1 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 35 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
29.10-1.11.07 | Washington DC, USA
| Wright, Flynn, Heyes, Hopkins, Liddell-Grainger, Morgan, Prentice, Rowen
| 2 | Inquiry into Lobbying
| £32,596.00
(estimated outturn)
|
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
21.11.06 | National School for Government, Sunningdale
| Wright, Flynn, Heyes, Hopkins, Liddell-Grainger, Prentice, Rowen, Willott
| 3 | Inquiry into Skills for Government
| £352.20 |
16.1.07 | London - various (Identity and Passport Service, Inner London Crown Court and Clapham Common Jobcentre Plus)
| Wright, Flynn, Hopkins, Liddell-Grainger, Morgan, Prentice, Rowen, Willott
| 2A | Inquiries into Skills for Government and Putting People First
| Nil |
17.7.07 | Newham
| Wright, Flynn, Heyes, Hopkins, Morgan, Prentice
| 1A | Inquiry into Putting People First
| £240.00 |
A
Includes 1 specialist adviser
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: The Work of the Committee in 2005-06
| 258 | 29.1.07
| 18 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Second Report: Governing the Future
| 123-I | 6.3.07
| 47 | £12.00
| Cm 7145, published 26.6.07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Governing the Future
| 123-II | 6.3.07
| 129 | £17.50
| Not applicable |
Third Report: Politics and Administration: Ministers and Civil Servants
| 122-I | 26.3.07
| 53 | £12.00
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: Politics and Administration: Ministers and Civil Servants
| 122-II | 26.3.07
| 132 | £16.50
| Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Ethics and Standards: The Regulation of Conduct in Public Life
| 121-I | 29.4.07
| 79 | £14.50
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: Ethics and Standards: The Regulation of Conduct in Public Life
| 121-II | 29.4.07
| 149 | £16.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Ethics and Standards: The Regulation of Conduct in Public Life
| 121-i | 26.10.07
| 12 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Fifth Report: Pensions Bill: Government Undertakings relating to the Financial Assistance Scheme
| 523 | 11.5.07
| 27 | £8.00
| Received 10.7.07: published as Eighth Report, Session 2006-07
|
Sixth Report: The Business Appointment Rules
| 651 | 2.7.07
| 20 | £6.50
| Received 10.10.07: published as Third Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Seventh Report: Machinery of Government Changes
| 672 | 15.6.07
| 23 | £10.00
| Awaited |
Eighth Report: The Pensions Bill and the FAS: An Update - Including the Government Response to the Fifth Report of Session 2006-07
| 922 | 13.7.07
| 19 | £6.00
| Received 26.7.07: published as Second Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Ninth Report: Skills for Government
| 93-I | 6.8.07
| 58 | £13.50
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: Skills for Government
| 93-II | 6.8.07
| 115 | £14.50
| Not applicable |
First Special Report: The Governance of Britain
| 901 | 11.7.07
| 8 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: The Pensions Bill and the FAS: An Update: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2006-07
| 1048 | 17.10.07
| 8 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Third Special Report: The Business Appointment Rules: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2006-07
| 1087 | 24.10.07
| 5 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: The Ministerial Code: the case for independent investigation: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06
| 1088 | 25.10.07
| 5 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Government Communications
| 92-i | 30.4.07
| 18 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: The Work of the Cabinet Office
| 305-i-ii | 16.7.07
| 31 | £8.50
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Public Appointments: Confirmation Hearings
| 731-i | 26.10.07
| 14 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Centre of Government
| 958-i | 26.10.07
| 19 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Freedom of Information: Administrative Impact
| 984-i | 26.10.07
| 15 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-i | 15.2.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-ii | 15.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-iii-iv | 11.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-v | 24.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-vi | 10.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-vii | 31.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Public Services: Putting People First
| 251-viii | 9.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: A Debt of Honour
| 277-i | 15.2.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Third Sector Commissioning
| 540-i | 10.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Third Sector Commissioning
| 540-ii | 5.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Third Sector Commissioning
| 540-iii | 3.8.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Third Sector Commissioning
| 540-vi | 16.8.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Politics and Administration: Ministers and Civil Servants
| 660-viA |
22.11.06 |
| | Not applicable
|
Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Charities and Public Benefit
| 904-i | 13.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
A HC No. refers to Session 2005-06
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Propriety and Honours: Lessons Learned
| 1049-i | 18.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Propriety and Honours: Lessons Learned
| 1049-ii | 23.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Propriety and Honours: Lessons Learned
| 1049-iii | 25.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Work of the Ombudsman
| 1086-i | 26.10.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
Reply to the Committee's Seventh Report: The Ministerial
Code: the case for independent investigation, received 25.10.07
and published as the Committee's Fourth Special Report, Session
2006-07.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/pasc.
Divisions
Date | Subject
|
15.3.07 | One, on publication of letter received from Assistant Commissioner Yates
|
Debates
The following Report was the subject of an Estimates
Day debate:
Sixth Report, Session 2005-06, The Ombudsman in
Question: The Ombudsman's report on pensions and its constitutional
implications, HC 1081, 7.12.06
The following Corrected Oral Evidence published on
the Internet was tagged to the Order Paper as being relevant to
a debate in the House:
Corrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet,
Session 2006-07, Third Sector Commissioning, HC 540 i-iv,
Third Sector Review, 18.10.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 29 of the Committee's
33 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly
or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
A Debt of Honour | 1
|
Centre of Government |
1 |
Charities and Public Benefit
| 1 |
Ethics and Standards |
1 |
Freedom of Information |
1 |
Government Communications
| 1 |
Machinery of Government Changes
| 1 |
Propriety and Honours: Lessons Learned
| 3 |
Public Appointments: Confirmation Hearings
| 1 |
Public Services: Putting People First
| 8 |
Skills for Government |
3 |
The Work of the Cabinet Office
| 2 |
Third Sector Commissioning
| 4 |
Work of the Ombudsman 2006-07
| 1 |
Total | 29
|
26 Regulatory Reform
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/regrefcom
The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 14 Members and held 12 meetings.
Members
Miller, Andrew (Chairman)
Banks, Gordon
Burt, Lorely
Gray, Mr James
Hammond, Stephen
Hemming, John
Hodgson, Mrs Sharon
Jackson, Mr Stewart
Naysmith, Dr Doug
Reed, Mr Jamie
Seabeck, Alison
Slaughter, Mr Andy
Smith, Ms Angela C
Steen, Mr Anthony
Overall Attendance:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
11
10
7
0
0
6
0
1
12
0
8
5
11
0
42.3 %
0.0 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mick Hillyard, Senior Clerk
(Band A2)
Committee Specialist: Stuart Deacon (until 2.9.07), (Band B1)
Secretary/Committee Assistant: Liz Booth, Grade 2 (Band C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
None.
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
None.
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007
| 384 | 15.3.07
| 33 | £10.00
| Not applicable |
Second Report: Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Collaboration etc between Ombudsmen) Order 2007
| 383 | 15.3.07
| 25 | £8.50
| Not applicable |
Third Report: Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Order 2007
| 397 | 23.3.07
| 32 | £10.00
| Not applicable |
Fourth Report: Proposal for the Regulatory Reform (Deer) (England and Wales) Order 2007
| 411 | 2.4.07
| 52 | £12.00
| Not applicable |
Fifth Report: Draft Regulatory Reform (Collaboration etc. between Ombudsmen) Order 2007
| 611 | 7.6.07
| 6 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Sixth Report: Draft Regulatory Reform (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Order 2007
| 673 | 14.6.07
| 6 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Seventh Report: Draft Regulatory Reform (Game) Order 2007
| 674 | 14.6.07
| 7 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Eighth Report: Draft Regulatory Reform (Deer) (England and Wales) Order 2007
| 948 | 23.7.07
| 10 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
First Special Report: Scrutiny of Regulatory Reform Orders
| 160 | 15.12.06
| 24 | £8.00
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Revised Standing Orders
| 385 | 14.3.07
| 23 | £8.00
| Received 15.5.07: published as Third Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Committee's Second Special Report of Session 2006-07: Revised Standing Orders
| 610 | 7.6.07
| 7 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/regrefcom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Oral Evidence
None.
27 Science and Technology
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/s&tcom
The Committee was nominated on 19 July 2005.
It had 11 Members and held 42 meetings.
Members
Willis, Mr Phil (Chairman)
Afriyie, Adam
Devine, Mr Jim (discharged 19.2.07)
Dorries, Mrs Nadine (added 2.7.07)
Flello, Mr Robert
Gilroy, Linda (added 19.2.07)
Harris, Dr Evan
Iddon, Dr Brian
Mole, Chris (added 15.1.07)
Moran, Margaret (discharged 27.11.06)
Newmark, Mr Brooks (discharged 2.7.07)
Snelgrove, Anne (discharged 15.1.07)
Spink, Bob
Stringer, Graham (added 27.11.06)
Turner, Dr Desmond
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
42
19
0
8
6
19
36
38
32
0
14
0
23
24
39
64.9 %
4
4
36.4 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Dr Lynn Gardner, Deputy Principal
Clerk (SC Band 1)
Second Clerk: Celia Blacklock, Assistant Clerk (Band A3) (until
31.5.07), Senior Clerk (Band A2) (from 1.6.07); Edward Waller
(from 1.10.07), Assistant Clerk (Band A3)
Committee Specialists: Dr Anne Simpson (until 19.6.07) (Band B1);
Sarah Bunn (from 5.2.07 until 8.7.07) (Band B1); Christopher Tyler
(from 14.5.07) (Band B1); Joanna Dally (from 1.10.07) (Band B1)
Media Officer: Laura Kibby (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Ana Ferreira, Higher Executive Officer (Band
B2)
Secretary: Christine McGrane, Grade 2 (Band C)
Senior Office Clerk: Robert Long (until 7.5.07) (shared) (Band
D1); Jonathan Wright (from 4.6.07) (shared) (Band D1)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
Professor Dennis Anderson, Professor Roger Brownsword,
Professor Malcolm Chiswick, Professor Brian Collins, Professor
Adrian Cruise, Professor Michael Gossop, Professor Nicholas Jenkins,
Professor Ron Maughan, Professor Lawrence Mee, Professor Allan
Templeton and Dr Valerie Wilson.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Minister | 1
|
Other Ministers | 15
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Council for Science and Technology
| 2 |
Department for Education and Skills
| 1 |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
| 2 |
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
| 2 |
Department for Transport
| 1 |
Department of Health |
4 |
Department of Trade and Industry
| 1 |
Ministry of Defence |
1 |
Office of Science and Innovation
| 3 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| |
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
| 2 |
Arts and Humanities Research Council
| 1 |
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
| 1 |
Economic and Social Research Council
| 1 |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
| 2 |
Medical Research Council
| 6 |
Met Office | 1
|
Natural Environment Research Council
| 7 |
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
| 2 |
Royal Society | 3
|
Science and Technology Facilities Council
| 1 |
UK Hydrographic Office |
1 |
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of non-departmental public bodies:
| |
Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority
| 1 |
Natural England | 1
|
The British Council |
1 |
Appearances by other witnesses
| 94 |
Overseas Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
6.3.07 | Paris, France
| Willis, Iddon, Mole, Newmark, Spink, Turner
| 2A | Inquiry into Space Policy
| £3,772.43 |
20-24.5.07 | Boston and Washington, USA
| Willis, Gilroy, Iddon, Mole, Spink, Turner
| 2 | Inquiry into Investigating the oceans
| £30,882.73 |
21-22.6.07 | Lisbon, Portugal
| Willis, Mole, Newmark, Turner
| 2 | Inquiry into Investigating the oceans
| £6,497.64 |
26.7.07 | Geneva, Switzerland
| Willis, Iddon, Mole |
1 | Inquiry into Research Council Institutes
| £568.57 |
A
Includes 1 specialist adviser
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
5.12.06 | Loughborough University
| Willis, Afriyie, Harris
| 2 | Inquiry into Human enhancement technologies in sport inquiry
| £514.50 |
16.1.07 | National Institute for Medical Research, Mill HillA
| Willis, Turner |
| Inquiry into Research Council Institutes
| £193.88 |
30.1.07 | Leicester University and National Space Centre
| Willis, Afriyie, Mole, Spink, Turner
| 5B | Inquiry into Space Policy
| £1,143.50 |
A
Travel in a representative capacity
B
Includes 1 specialist adviser and 1 shorthand writer
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
20.2.07 | Stem Cell Laboratory, Kings College, London
| Willis, Harris, Mole, Spink, Stringer, Turner
| 3 | Inquiry into Government proposals for the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos
| |
27.3.07 | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
| Willis, Iddon, Mole, Spink, Turner
| 2 | Inquiries into Space Policy and Research Council Institutes
| £496.15 |
17.4.07 | Plymouth Marine Laboratory
| Willis, Gilroy, Iddon, Mole, Turner
| 2 | Inquiry into Investigating the oceans
| £989.90 |
7.6.07 | British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
| Willis, Iddon, Mole, Stringer, Turner
| 2 | Inquiry into Investigating the oceans
| £375.05 |
7.6.07 | Research Councils - CERN, GenevaA
| Spink |
| Inquiry into Research Council Institutes
| £212.46 |
12.7.07 | National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton
| Willis | 2C
| Inquiry into Investigating the oceans
| £329.35 |
A
Travel in a representative capacity
C
Includes 1 specialist adviser
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Work of the Committee in 2005-06
| 202 | 24.1.07
| 32 | £10.00
| Not applicable |
Second Report: Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport
| 67 | 21.2.07
| 108 | £20.00
| Department for Culture, Media and Sport Response, Cm 7088, published 23.4.07
|
Third Report: The Cooksey Review
| 204 | 15.3.07
| 59 | £12.00
| Received 18.7.07: published as Third Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Fourth Report: Research Council Institutes
| 68-I | 22.3.07
| 88 | £14.50
| Received 18.7.07: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Research Council Institutes
| 68-II | 22.3.07
| 197 | £20.50
| Not applicable |
Fifth Report: Government proposals for the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos
| 272-I | 5.4.07
| 74 | £14.50
| Department of Health Response, Cm 7139, published 18.6.07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: Government proposals for the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos
| 272-II | 5.4.07
| 169 | £18.50
| Not applicable |
Sixth Report: Office of Science and Innovation: Scrutiny Report 2005 and 2006
| 203 | 3.4.07
| 142 | £17.50
| Received 5.6.07: published as Second Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Seventh Report: 2007: A Space Policy
| 66-I | 17.7.07
| 157 | £17.50
| Received 26.9.07: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: 2007: A Space Policy
| 66-II | 17.7.07
| 408 | £34.30
| Not applicable |
Eighth Report: Chairman of the Medical Research Council: Introductory Hearing
| 746 | 31.7.07
| 31 | £10.00
| Received 20.9.07: published as Sixth Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Ninth Report: International Policies and Activities of the Research Councils
| 472-I | 31.7.07
| 61 | £13.50
| Received 25.9.07: published as Seventh Special Report, Session 2006-07
|
Oral and Written Evidence: International Policies and Activities of the Research Councils
| 472-II | 31.7.07
| 168 | £18.50
| Not applicable |
Tenth Report: Investigating the Oceans
| 470-I | 18.10.07
| 147 | £17.50
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: Investigating the Oceans
| 470-II | 18.10.07
| 274 | £22.50
| Not applicable |
Eleventh Report: The Funding of Science and Discovery Centres
| 903-I | 22.10.07
| 48 | £12.00
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: The Funding of Science and Discovery Centres
| 903-II | 22.10.07
| 216 | £22.00
| Not applicable |
Twelfth Report: Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967
| 1045-I | 31.10.07
| 88 | £14.50
| Awaited |
Oral and Written Evidence: Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967
| 1045-II | 31.10.07
| 253 | £21.50
| Not applicable |
Thirteenth Report: The Last ReportA
| 1108 | 7.11.07
| 66 | £13.50
| Awaited |
First Special Report: Scientific Advice, Risk and Evidence Based Policy Making: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2005-06
| 307 | 27.2.07
| 31 | £10.00
| Not applicable |
Second Special Report: Office of Science and Innovation: Scrutiny Report 2005 and 2006: Government Response to the Committee's Sixth Report of Session 2006-07
| 635 | 19.6.07
| 13 | £4.50
| Not applicable |
Third Special Report: The Cooksey Review: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2006-07
| 978 | 30.7.07
| 6 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Fourth Special Report: Research Council Institutes: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report of Session 2006-07
| 979 | 30.7.07
| 25 | £8.00
| Not applicable |
Fifth Special Report: 2007: A Space Policy: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report of Session 2006-07
| 1042 | 23.10.07
| 23 | £8.00
| Not applicable |
Sixth Special Report: Chairman of the Medical Research Council: Introductory Hearing: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2006-07
| 1043 | 24.10.07
| 4 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
A The Committee's last Report of Session 2006-07, although
published in Session 2007-08, was agreed in Session 2006-07.
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
Seventh Special Report: International Policies and Activities of the Research Councils: Government Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2006-07
| 1044 | 25.10.07
| 15 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Drug classification: making a hash of it?: follow-up
| 65-i | 20.3.07
| 27 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council: Introductory Hearing
| 310-i | 29.3.07
| 9 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council: Introductory Hearing
| 471-i | 20.6.07
| 7 | £4.00
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Improving Research Conduct and Preventing Scientific Fraud
| 747-i | 1.10.07
| 21 | £5.50
| Not applicable |
Oral Evidence: Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014: Annual Report 2007B
| 1079-i | 19.11.07
| 14 | £6.00
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Renewable Energy Technologies
| | 16.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
B This Oral Evidence, although published in Session
2007-08, was held in Session 2006-07 (23 October 2007).
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
Reply to the Committee's Seventh Report: Scientific
Advice, Risk and Evidence Based Policy Making, received 29.1.07
and published as the Committee's First Special Report, Session
2006-07.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/s&tcom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Report was the subject of an Estimates
Day debate:
Seventh Report, Session 2005-06, Scientific Advice,
Risk and Evidence Based Policy Making, HC 900-I, 9.7.07
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:
Fifth Report, Session 2005-06, Drug classification:
making a hash of it?, HC 1031, 14.6.07
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 32 of the Committee's
42 meetings.[7]
On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly
in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Council: Introductory Hearing
| 1 |
Cooksey Review | 1
|
Drug classification: making a hash of it?: follow-up
| 1 |
Funding of Science and Discovery Centres
| 1 |
Government proposals for the regulation of hybrid and chimera embryos
| 3 |
Human Enhancement Technologies in SportA
| 2 |
Improving Research Conduct and Preventing Scientific Fraud
| 1 |
International Policies and Activities of the Research Councils
| 3 |
Investigating the Oceans
| 6 |
Office of Science and Innovation 2007
| 1 |
Office of Science and Innovation Scrutiny Report 2006A
| 1 |
Research Council InstitutesA
| 3 |
Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014: Annual Report 2007
| 1 |
Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967
| 3 |
Space Policy | 7
|
The role of the Chairman of the Medical Research Council
| 1 |
Total | 36
|
A
The Committee took oral evidence on this inquiry in Session 2005-06;
figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (2005-06))
28 Scottish Affairs
For website access click on http://www.parliament.uk/scotaffcom
The Committee was nominated on 13 July 2005.
It had 11 Members and held 16 meetings.
Members
Sarwar, Mr Mohammad (Chairman)
Alexander, Danny
Clark, Ms Katy
Davidson, Mr Ian
Devine, Mr Jim
MacDougall, Mr John
McGovern, Mr Jim
MacNeil, Mr Angus
Mundell, David
Walker, Mr Charles
Wallace, Mr Ben
Overall Attendance:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
15
6
10
14
0
0
13
8
8
12
7
52.8 %
0.0 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mike Clark (until 15.4.07),
Senior Clerk (Band A2); Gordon Clarke (from 16.4.07), Senior Clerk
(Band A2)
Second Clerk: Sarah Hartwell-Naguib (from 11.6.07), Senior Clerk
(Band A2);
Media Officer: Laura Kibby, (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Mrs Diane Nelson (until 5.10.07), Higher
Executive Officer (Band B2); Duma Langton (from 1.10.07), Higher
Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Camilla Brace, Grade 2 (Band C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
Number of appearances by:
| |
Cabinet Minister | 1
|
Scottish Minister | 1
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of:
| |
Scotland Office | 1
|
Number of appearances by officials from or representatives of public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
| |
Energywatch | 1
|
Ofgem | 1
|
Appearances by other witnesses
| 26 |
Overseas Visits
None.
Visits to European Institutions
None.
UK Visits
Date | Destination
| Members | Staff
| Purpose | Cost
|
11-12.12.06 | Inverness
| Sarwar, Alexander, Davidson, McGovern, MacNeil, Mundell, Walker
| 4A | Inquiry into Poverty in Scotland
| £5,673.70 |
19-20.2.07 | Dundee
| Sarwar, Alexander, Clark, Davidson, McGovern, MacNeil, Mundell, Walker
| 4A | Inquiry into Poverty in Scotland
| £4,648.65 |
18-19.6.07 | Glasgow
| Sarwar, Clark, Davidson, McGovern, MacNeil
| 4A | Inquiry into Poverty in Scotland
| £3,609.11 |
A
Includes a shorthand writer
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
Title | HC No. (2006-07)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages |
Sale price | Government reply
|
First Report: Work of the Committee in 2006
| 308 | 22.2.07
| 14 | £6.50
| Not applicable |
Oral and Written Evidence: Scotland Office Annual Report 2007
| 943-i | 23.10.07
| 24 | £7.00
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-i | 17.12.06
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-ii | 22.1.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-iii | 12.2.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-iv | 26.2.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-v | 13.3.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-vi | 20.3.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-vii | 23.3.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-viii | 21.5.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-ix | 21.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Uncorrected Oral Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-x | 28.6.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Spring Supplementary Estimate 2007: Explanatory Memorandum by the Scotland Office
| 906 | 23.7.07
| 3 | £3.00
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Effects of tax increases on the oil industry
| | 10.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: The implications of the sale of BP's petrochemical business in Grangemouth: further evidence
| | 17.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Written Evidence published on the Internet: Poverty in Scotland
| 168-xi | 10.7.07
| |
| Not applicable |
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
The Formal Minutes of the Committee were published
electronically after each meeting of the Committee. They are available
on the Committee's website at http://www.parliament.uk/scotaffcom.
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Oral Evidence
Oral Evidence was taken at 11 of the Committee's
16 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly
or wholly in private.
Inquiry | Number of oral evidence sessions
|
Poverty in Scotland |
10 |
Scotland Office Annual Report 2007
| 1 |
Total | 11
|
29 Selection
The Committee was nominated on 13 June 2005.
It had 9 Members and held 31 meetings.
Members
McKenna, Rosemary (Chairman)
Ainsworth, Mr Bob (discharged 4.7.07)
Blackman, Liz (added 4.7.07)
Brown, Mr Nicholas (added 4.7.07)
Burns, Mr Simon (added 9.7.07)
Campbell, Mr Alan
Cunningham, Tony
Heppell, Mr John (discharged 4.7.07)
Randall, Mr John (discharged 9.7.07)
Robathan, Mr Andrew
Sanders, Mr Adrian
Young, Sir George
Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:
| Meetings attended
24
25
5
3
4
29
28
19
23
12
26
25
79.9 %
3
3
33.3 %
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Miss Sîan Jones, Senior
Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Assistant: Rob Bartram, Chief Office Clerk (Band C)
Specialist Advisers during the Session
None.
Witnesses
None.
Overseas Visits
Not applicable.
Visits to European Institutions
Not applicable.
UK Visits
Not applicable.
Reports and Oral and Written Evidence
None.
Government replies to Reports for Session 2005-06
None.
Formal Minutes
None.
Divisions
None.
Debates
None.
Oral Evidence
None.
5 On one occasion, the Committee's meeting comprised
two separate oral evidence sessions. Back
6
On one occasion the Committee's meeting comprised three separate
oral evidence sessions, and on one occasion the meeting comprised
two separate oral evidence sessions. Back
7
On four occasions the Committee's meeting comprised two separate
oral evidence sessions. Back
|