Formal Minutes
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Members present:
Mr Tim Yeo, in the Chair
| Dan Byles
Barry Gardiner
Ian Lavery
Dr Phillip Lee
Christopher Pincher
| | John Robertson
Laura Sandys
Sir Robert Smith
Dr Alan Whitehead
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The following declarations of interest relating to the inquiry
were made:
7 September 2010, 15 September, 26 October, 2
November and 14 December 2010
Sir Robert Smith declared the following interests:
Shareholder Shell Transport and Trading; vice-chair of the all-party
group on the offshore oil and gas industry; and attendance at
the First International Offshore Oil and Gas Conference: The Future
of Offshore Exploration and Development after Macondo in New Orleans
8-9th December. Travel accommodation and hospitality were provided
by the organisers the Institute for Energy Law of the Centre for
American and International Law, Plano, Texas.
15 September 2010
Gemma Doyle declared the following interest: a family
member was employed by BP.
Draft Report (UK Deepwater Drilling—Implications
of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill), proposed by the Chair, brought
up and read.
Ordered, That the draft
Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 138 read and agreed to.
Annex and Summary agreed to.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Second Report of the Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the Chair
make the Report to the House.
Ordered, That embargoed
copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the
provisions of Standing Order No. 134.
Written evidence was ordered to be reported to the
House for printing with the Report (in addition to that ordered
to be reported for publishing on 7 September, 15 September, 12
October and 19 October.
Written evidence was ordered to be reported to the
House for placing in the Library and Parliamentary Archives.
[Adjourned till Wednesday 15 December at 3.00 pm
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