The Trade and Industry Committee is appointed under
Standing Order No 152 to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Department of Trade and Industry and associated
public bodies.
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
(and to the Committee of Public Accounts, Deregulation Committee,
Environmental Audit Committee and European Scrutiny Committee)
its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common
interest; and
(d) to meet concurrently
with any other such committee or 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 9 July 1997 has been as follows:
Mr Martin O'Neill (Chairman)
| Mr Tony Baldry | Mr Bob Laxton
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| Mr John Bercow (added 15.6.98)
| Gillian Merron (discharged 9.11.98)
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| Mr Roger Berry | Mr Alasdair Morgan
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| Mr John Butterfill |
Linda Perham (added 22.6.98)
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| Mr Jim Cunningham | Mr David Prior (discharged 15.6.98)
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| Mr Lindsay Hoyle (added 19.2.98)
| Mrs Helen Southworth (added 9.11.98)
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| Mr Alan Johnson (discharged 19.2.98)
| Joan Walley (discharged 22.6.98 )
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Mr Martin O'Neill was elected Chairman on 16 July
1997.
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