The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs
Committee is appointed under Standing Order No 152 to examine
the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of
the Environment, Transport and the Regions and associated public
bodies.
The Committee consists of 17 Members. It has
a quorum of five. Unless the House otherwise orders, all members
nominated to the Committee continue to be members of it for the
remainder of the Parliament.
The Committee has power:
(a) to send for persons, papers and records,
to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn
from place to place, and to report from time to time;
(b) to appoint specialist advisers either to
supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate
matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference;
(c) to communicate to any other committee appointed
under the same Standing Order (or to the Committee of Public Accounts,
the Deregulation Committee or the Environmental Audit Committee)
its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common
interest;
(d) to meet concurrently with any other such
committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or
considering draft reports.
The Committee has power to appoint two sub-committees
and to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken
before them and their minutes of proceedings. The sub-committees
have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding
any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place and
to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under the same
Standing Order or any sub-committee thereof for the purposes of
deliberating or taking evidence.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 14 July 1997 has been:
Mr Andrew F Bennett
Mr Thomas Brake
Christine Butler
Mr John Cummings
Mr Stephen Day (discharged 17/11/97)
Mr Brian Donohoe
Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody
Mrs Louise Ellman
Mr Howard Flight (discharged 20/07/98)
Mr Clifford Forsythe
Mrs Teresa Gorman (appointed 30/11/98)
Mr James Gray
Mr Philip Hammond (appointed 17/11/97)(discharged 22/06/98)
Mrs Eleanor Laing (appointed 22/06/98)
Mr Bill O'Brien
Mr Bill Olner
Mr Eric Pickles (discharged 30/11/97)
Mr John Randall (appointed 20/07/98)
Mr George Stevenson
Mr Graham Stringer
Mr Alan Whitehead
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