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 John Bercow (added 15.6.98 and discharged
5.7.99)
Mr Roger Berry
Mr John Butterfill
Mr Christopher Chope (added 5.7.99)
Mr Jim Cunningham
Mr Lindsay Hoyle (added 19.2.98)
Mr Alan Johnson (discharged 19.2.98)
Mr Bob Laxton
Gillian Merron (discharged 9.11.98)
Mr Alasdair Morgan
Linda Perham (added 22.6.98)
Mr David Prior (discharged 15.6.98)
Mrs Helen Southworth (added 9.11.98)
Joan Walley (discharged 22.6.98)
Mr Martin O'Neill was elected Chairman on 16 July
1997.
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