The Home Affairs Committee is appointed under Standing
Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy
of the Home Office and associated public bodies; the policy, administration
and expenditure of the Lord Chancellor's Department (including
the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts
and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases
and appointments); and the administration and expenditure of the
Attorney-General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department,
the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but
excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within
government by Law Officers).
The Committee consists of 11 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 Committee of Public Accounts,
the Deregulation Committee, the Environmental Audit Committee
and the European Scrutiny Committee) its evidence and any other
documents relating to matters of common interest;
(d) to meet concurrently with any other committee
appointed under Standing Order No. 152 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 Committee has the power to appoint one sub-committee
and to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken
before it. The sub-committee has power to send for persons, papers
and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House,
and to adjourn from place to place. It has a quorum of three.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 16 July 1997 is shown below. Members of the Committee during
the course of this inquiry are marked with asterisks.
*Mr Chris Mullin
(elected Chairman 17 July 1997)
| Mr Richard Allan | Ms Beverley Hughes
|
| (discharged 8 June 1998)
| (discharged 9 November 1998)
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| *Mr Robin Corbett | *Miss Melanie Johnson
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| Mr Ross Cranston | (added 9 November 1998)
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| (discharged 9 November 1998)
| (discharged 1 February 1999)
|
| *Mrs Janet Dean* | Mr Martin Linton
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| (added 1 February 1999)
| *Mr Humfrey Malins |
| *Mr Nick Hawkins | *Bob Russell
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| (added 2 March 1998)
| (added 8 June 1998)
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| Mr Douglas Hogg | *Mr Marsha Singh
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| (discharged 2 March 1998)
| *Mr Paul Stinchcombe |
| *Mr Gerald Howarth |
(added 9 November 1998)
|
| *Mr David Winnick
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