The Foreign Affairs Committee is appointed under
Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and associated
public bodies.
The Committee consists of 12 Members. It has
a quorum of three. 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 European Scrutiny
Committee, the Committee of Public Accounts, the Deregulation
Committee or to 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 or with the European Scrutiny Committee
or any Sub-Committee thereof for the purposes of deliberating
or taking evidence.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 17 July 1997 has been as follows:
Mr Donald Anderson, Swansea East (Chairman)
| Ms Diane Abbott, Hackney North and Stoke
| Mr Andrew Mackinlay, Thurrock
|
| Newington
| Mr Ernie Ross, Dundee West
|
| Rt Hon Mrs Virginia Bottomley, South West
| Mr Ted Rowlands, Merthyr Tydfil
|
| Surrey (discharged 25.1.99)
| and Rhymney
|
| Rt Hon Sir Peter Emery, East Devon
| Rt Hon Sir John Stanley, Tonbridge
|
| Mr Norman A Godman, Greenock
| and Malling
|
| and Inverclyde
| Mr David Wilshire, Spelthorne
|
| Mr David Heath, Somerton and Frome
| Mr Shaun Woodward, Witney
|
| Mr Eric Illsley, Barnsley Central
| (added 25.1.99)
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