B. SELECT COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE, WORK,
PUBLICATIONS ETC
17. Home Affairs
The Committee was nominated on 16 July 1997.
It had 11 Members and held 41meetings.
|
| Members | Meetings attended
|
|
| Corbett, Mr Robin (Chairman) | 41
|
| Cawsey, Mr Ian (added, 6.12.99) | 29
|
| Dean, Mrs Janet | 31
|
| Fabricant, Mr Michael | 21
|
| Howarth, Mr Gerald | 35
|
| Linton, Mr Martin | 39
|
| Malins, Mr Humfrey | 24
|
| Mullin, Mr Chris (discharged, 6.12.99) |
0 |
| Russell, Bob | 28
|
| Singh, Mr Marsha | 25
|
| Stinchcombe, Mr Paul | 30
|
| Winnick, Mr David | 38
|
|
| Overall attendance: | 75.6 %
|
| Number of Members added: | 1
|
| Number of Members discharged: | 1
|
| Turnover of membership during the Session: |
9 % |
|
Staff
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Andrew Kennon, Deputy Principal
Clerk (Senior Structure Band 2).
Second Clerk: Mr Martyn Atkins, Assistant Clerk (Band A3).
Committee Assistant: Mr Steve Barrett, Senior Executive Officer
(Band B1).
Secretary: Liz Booth, Secretary (Band D1)
Specialist Adviser during the Session
Mr Angus McIntosh QPM.
Witnesses
| Oral evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
| |
| Number of appearances by:
| |
| Cabinet Ministers
| 2 |
| Other Ministers
| 6 |
| Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of
| |
| Home Office
| 13 |
| Lord Chancellor's Department
| 3 |
| Crown Prosecution Service
| 1 |
| executive agencies
| 6 |
| comprising: Prison Service Agency
| 5 |
| Public Trust Office
| 1 |
| public bodies and non-Ministerial departments
| 2 |
| comprising: Criminal Cases Review Commission
| 2 |
| Appearances by other witnesses
| 80 |
Overseas Visits
| Date | Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
| 18-19.1.00 | Utrecht
| 9 |
2 | Inquiry into Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder
| £6,500(estimated outturn)
|
| 22-24.3.00 | Rome
| 1* |
1 | Inquiry into Border Controls
| £1,554.68
|
| 2-6.7.00 | Hungary, Germany and Spain
| 7 |
2 | Inquiry into Border Controls
| £16,950(estimated outturn)
|
| 2-3.11.00 | Rome
| 1* |
0 | Italian Parliament seminar on Organised Crime
| £794.99
|
* Travel in a representative capacity
Visits to European Institutions
| Date | Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
| 29-30.11.99 | European Parliament, Brussels
| 1* |
1 | Seminar on EU Freedom, Security and Justice Policy
| £989.32
|
| 21-22.11.00 | European Commission and European Parliament, Brussels
| 6 |
3 | EU Justice and Home Affairs issues and Inquiry into Border Controls
| £4,200(estimated outturn)
|
*Travel in a representative capacity
UK Visits
| Date |
Destination
| Members
| Staff |
Purpose |
Cost |
| 1.2.00 | Northamptonshire Police Headquarters
| 6 |
2 | Inquiry into Controls over Firearms
| £397.20
|
| 1.3.00 | Blantyre House Prison, Kent
| 4 |
1 | Briefing on resettlement
| £196.09
|
| 11.5.00 | HM Customs & Excise Headquarters, London SE1
| 4 |
4A
| Inquiry into Border Controls
| £26.79
|
| 23.5.00 | Security Service Headquarters, London SW1
| 8 |
2 | Briefing
| £0.00
|
| 23-24.5.00 | Calais and Dover
| 7 |
3 | Inquiry into Border Controls
| £2,810.20
|
| 6.6.00 | Harwich and Felixstowe
| 6 |
3 | Inquiry into Border Controls
| £504.09
|
| 18.7.00 | Heathrow Airport
| 6 |
3A
| Inquiry into Border Controls
| £397.00
|
| 16-17.10.00 | Blantyre House Prison, Kent
| 8 |
7B
| Inquiry into Blantyre House Prison
| £1,421.32
|
| 7.11.00 | National Criminal Intelligence Service, London SE11
| 6 |
4A
| Inquiry into Border Controls
| £95.99
|
| 16.11.00 | Joint Entry Clearance Unit, London SE1
| 5 |
3A
| Inquiry into Border Controls
| £55.83
|
A Includes 1 specialist
adviser
B Includes 2 shorthand writers
Reports and Minutes of Evidence
| Title | HC No. (1999-2000)
| Date of publication
| No. of pages
| Sale price
| Government reply
|
| First Report: Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder
| 42 |
14.3.00 |
121 | £14.70
| Received 12.5.00: published as Third Special Report, Session 1999-2000
|
| Second Report: Controls over Firearms
| 95-I |
13.4.00 |
75 | £11.50
| Cm 4864, published 4.10.00
|
| Minutes of Evidence and Appendices: Controls over Firearms
| 95-II |
13.4.00 |
311 | £22.40
| Not applicable
|
| Third Report: The Double Jeopardy Rule
| 190 |
8.6.00 |
84 | £12.50
| Not required
|
| Fourth Report: Blantyre House Prison
| 904 |
16.11.00 |
131 | £15.90
| Received 15.1.01: published as First Special Report, HC 139, Session 2000-01 on 17.1.01
|
| First Special Report: Government Reply to the Fourth Report, Session 1998-99 (Police Training and Recruitment)
| 77 |
7.12.99 |
20 | £4.75
| Not applicable
|
| Second Special Report: Government Reply to the Fifth Report, Session 1998-99 (Drugs and Prisons)
| 271 |
3.3.00 |
14 | £4.00
| Not applicable
|
| Third Special Report: Government Reply to the First Report, (Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder)
| 505 |
18.5.00 |
7 | £2.25
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: EU Justice and Home Affairs Issues
| 402-1 |
20.6.00 |
26 | £6.20
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission
| 429-i |
19.7.00 |
24 | £6.20
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: The Future of the Public Trust Office
| 445-i |
20.7.00 |
49 | £9.70
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Crown Prosecution Service
| 476-i |
19.7.00 |
36 | £8.00
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: Drugs and Prisons: Follow Up
| 506-i |
5.10.00 |
30 | £7.00
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: Report of the Independent Inquiry into The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, Drugs and the Law
| 561-i |
20.7.00 |
14 | £4.00
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: Home Office Annual Report 1999-2000
| 708-i |
24.8.00 |
45 | £8.80
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: Lord Chancellor's Department Annual Report 1999-2000
| 856-i |
1.11.00 |
37 | £8.00
| Not applicable
|
| Minutes of Evidence: The Work of the Home Office
| 994-i |
Not yet published
|
|
| Not applicable
|
Government replies to Reports for Session 1998-99
Reply to the Committee's Second Report: Freemasonry in
Public Life, published as Cm 4813 (18.7.00).
Reply to the Committee's Third Report: Accountability of the
Security Service, published as Cm 4588 (28.1.00).
Minutes of Proceedings
The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1998-99
were published on 27.1.00 as HC 905, Session 1998-99. The Minutes
of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 1999-2000 will be
published as HC 783, Session 1999-2000.
Divisions
None.
Debates
The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:
Third Report, Session 1999-2000, The Double Jeopardy Rule,
26.10.00.
The following Reports were referred to on the Order Paper as being
relevant to debates in the House:
Fourth Report, Session 1997-98, Electoral Law and Administration,
on Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, 30.11.99.
Third Report, Session 1998-99, Accountability of the Security
Service, on a Government Motion for the Adjournment of the
House (Security and Intelligence Agencies), 22.6.00.
Oral Evidence
Oral evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 41 meetings.
On 2 of these occasions evidence was taken partly in private.
| Inquiry | No. of oral evidence sessions
|
| Managing Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder
| 2 |
| Controls over Firearms |
3 |
| The Double Jeopardy Rule
| 2 |
| Blantyre House Prison |
3 |
| Border Controls* | 4
|
| Miscellaneous | 9
|
| Total | 23
|
*The Committee did not complete this inquiry in Session
1999-2000
|
