The Health Committee is appointed under Standing
Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, ittee consists of 11
Members. It has a quorum of three. Unless the House otherwise
orders, all Members nominated to a committee appointed under this
order shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder
of the Parliament.
The Committee has power;
1. 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;
2. 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;
3. to communicate to any other committee appointed
under the same Standing Order (and to the European Scrutiny Committee,
to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation Committee
and to the Environmental Audit Committee) its evidence and any
other documents relating to matters of common interest; and
4. to meet concurrently with any other such committee
or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof
for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or (in the
case of any other such committee), considering draft reports.
The membership of the Committee since its nomination
on 14 July 1997 has been as follows:
Mr David Amess (added
20 July 1998)
Mr John Austin
Dr Peter Brand
Mr Peter Brooke (discharged 21 July 1997)
Julia Drown
Mr John Gunnell
Mr David Hinchliffe
Ann Keen (discharged 1February 1999)
Mr Andrew Lansley (discharged 20 July 1998)
Mr Ivan Lewis (added 1 February 1999)
Dr Howard Stoate
Mr Robert Syms
Mr Robert Walter (added 21 July 1997)
Audrey Wise
Mr David Hinchliffe was elected Chairman on 17 July
1997.
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