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18 FINANCE AND SERVICES

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The Committee was nominated on 25 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 5 meetings.

Members
Bell, Sir Stuart (Chairman)
Adams, Mrs Irene
Ainsworth, Mr Bob
Conway, Derek
Fabricant, Michael (discharged 2.2.04)
Key, Mr Robert (added 2.2.04)
Lepper, Mr David
McAvoy, Mr Thomas
McLoughlin, Mr Patrick
Roe, Dame Marion
Stunell, Mr Andrew
Turner, Mr Dennis

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
5
0
4
3
0
2
3
2
4
2
5
4

61.8 %
1
1
9.1 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Robert Rogers (until 30.9.04), Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1A); Mr David Natzler (from 1.10.04), Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1A)
Second Clerk: Ms Shona McGlashan (until 26.8.04), Senior Clerk (Band A2); Mr Tom Goldsmith (from 27.8.04), Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Secretary: Miss Michelle Owens, Grade 2 (Band C)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

None.

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

None.

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

None.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Sessions 2002-03 and 2003-04 were published on 25.11.04 as HC 1303, Session 2002-03 and HC 1302, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Oral Evidence

None.

19 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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The Committee was nominated on 19 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 37 meetings. This included 4 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees, (listed as concurrent meetings (CM) in the attendance table below).

Members
Anderson, Donald (Chairman)
Chidgey, Mr David
Hamilton, Mr Fabian
Illsley, Mr Eric
Mackay, Mr Andrew (added 22.3.04)
Mackinlay, Andrew
Maples, Mr John
Olner, Mr Bill
Ottaway, Richard (discharged 22.3.04)
Pope, Mr Greg
Stanley, Sir John
Stuart, Ms Gisela

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
34 (including 2 CM)
24
25 (including 2 CM)
26
19 (including 1 CM)
30
29 (including 1 CM)
31 (including 1 CM)
11
26
35 (including 4 CM)
22

82.9 %^A1
1
9.1 %

^A Not including concurrent meetings.

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Steve Priestley, Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1)
Second Clerks: Mr Geoffrey Farrar (until 2.11.04), Senior Clerk (Band A2); Sarah Ioannou (from 4.10.04), Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Committee Specialists: Ms Elizabeth Sellwood (until 16.12.03) (Band B1); Ann Snow (Band B1); Mr Kit Dawnay (from 1.12.03) (Band B1)
Media Officer: Adele Brown (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Ms Jane Appleton (until 5.12.03), Senior Executive Officer (Band B1); Kevin Candy (from 11.12.03), Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Mrs Julia Kalogerides, Grade 2 (Band C)
Senior Office Clerk: Mr Andrew Boyd (until 4.1.04) (Band D1); Mr Chintan Makwana (from 8.3.04) (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Dr Sibylle Bauer^*, Dr Wyn Bowen, Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold CB, Dr Paul Cornish^* and Professor Jack Spence.

*Specialist Adviser to the Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees in their joint inquiry into Strategic Export Controls.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
Other Ministers
Members of House of Lords
Number of appearances by officials or representatives of:
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments:
BBC World Service
British Council
European Commission
Appearances by other witnesses

6
3
2

23

4
3
1
31

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
1-3.12.03	Iraq	Anderson, Pope, Stanley	1	Inquiry into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	£13,451.53
19-20.1.04	Dublin	Anderson, Chidgey, Hamilton, Illsley, Mackinlay, Maples, Olner, Ottaway, Pope, Stanley, Stuart	2	Irish Presidency of the European Union	£9,142.70
8-12.2.04	Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa	Anderson, Chidgey, Hamilton, Illsley, Olner, Ottaway, Pope, Stanley	2	Inquiry into South Africa	£35,414.42
24.2.04	Iraq	Mackinlay, Stuart	1	Inquiry into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	£9,958.18
21-25.3.04	New York and Washington DC	Anderson, Chidgey, Hamilton, Illsley, Maples, Olner, Stanley	2	Inquiry into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	£26,168.67
28-29.3.04	Dublin^A	Anderson	1	Chairpersons of Foreign Affairs Committees' Conference	£1,570.26
28-29.4.04	Brussels and Paris	Hamilton	1	Inquiry into Strategic Export Controls by the Quadripartite Committee	£1,686.44
14.5.04	Islamabad and Peshawar, Pakistan; Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan	Anderson, Chidgey, Hamilton, Illsley, Mackay, Maples, Pope, Stanley, Stuart	2	Inquiry into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	£27,597.88 (estimated outturn)
14-16.6.04	Moscow	Anderson, Chidgey, Hamilton, Illsley, Mackay, Mackinlay, Maples, Olner, Pope, Stanley, Stuart	2	Inquiries into Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism, and Developments in the European Union	£22,404.49
7.9.04	The Hague	Anderson, Hamilton, Mackinlay, Olner, Stanley, Stuart	2	Dutch Presidency of the European Union	£5,050.64 (estimated outturn)
29.9.04	The Hague^A	Anderson	1	Chairpersons of Foreign Affairs Committees' Conference	£1,253.28
7-11.11.04	Vienna, Austria; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro; Pristina, Kosovo; and Skopje, Macedonia	Anderson, Chidgey, Mackinlay, Stanley, Stuart	1	Inquiry into the Western Balkans	£11,173.91 (estimated outturn)
8-11.11.04	Nicosia and Kyrenia, Cyprus	Hamilton, Mackay, Maples, Olner, Pope	1	Inquiry into Cyprus	£8,818.14 (estimated outturn)

^A Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
8.12.03	Foreign and Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street	Anderson, Chidgey, Hamilton, Maples, Olner, Stanley	2	Visit to the FCO Response Centre	Nil
8.6.04	BBC World Service, Bush House	Anderson, Mackay, Mackinlay, Maples, Olner, Stanley	2	Inquiry into FCO Annual Report	£55.78

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
Twelfth Report of Session 2002-03: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2003	859^A	4.12.03	172	£20.00	Cm 6107, published 4.2.04
First Report: Foreign Affairs Committee Annual Report 2003	220	22.1.04	30	£8.50	Not applicable
Second Report: Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	81	2.2.04	191	£22.00	Cm 6162, published 29.3.04
Third Report: Iran	80	19.3.04	62	£13.50	Cm 6198, published 21.5.04
Fourth Report: Human Rights Annual Report 2003	389	6.5.04	191	£20.00	Cm 6275, published 6.7.04
Fifth Report: South Africa	117	18.5.04	221	£23.00	Cm 6283, published 15.7.04
Sixth Report: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2002, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny	390	18.5.04	196	£22.00	Cm 6357, published 22.10.04
Seventh Report: Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	441-I	29.7.04	174	£20.00	Cm 6340, published 29.9.04
Oral and Written Evidence: Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism	441-II	29.7.04	197	£20.50	Not applicable
Eighth Report: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2003-04	745	23.9.04	232	£22.00	Cm 6415, published 23.11.04
First Special Report: Implications for the Work of the House and its Committees of the Government's Lack of Co-operation with the Foreign Affairs Committee's Inquiry into The Decision to go to War in Iraq	440	18.3.04	9	£4.50	Not applicable
Written Evidence: The Biological Weapons Green Paper	113	18.12.03	2	£3.00	Not applicable
Written Evidence: Private Military Companies	115	18.12.03	2	£3.00	Not applicable
Written Evidence: Turkey	116	18.12.03	3	£3.00	Not applicable
Written Evidence: Overseas Territories	114	9.3.04	10	£4.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Decision to go to War in Iraq	1025-i, ii^A	16.3.04	35	£8.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Developments in the European Union	1233-i^A/ 129-i	27.5.04	47	£10.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Developments in the European Union	631-i	20.7.04	18	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Strategic Export Controls	390-II	17.11.04	20	£5.50	Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Western Balkans	1121-i	18.10.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Western Balkans	1121-ii	1.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Western Balkans	1121-iii	1.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Cyprus	1172-i	2.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Cyprus	1172-ii	10.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Cyprus	1172-iii	22.11.04			Not applicable

^A HC No. refers to Session 2002-03

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

Reply to the Committee's Ninth Report: The Decision to go to War in Iraq, published as Cm 6062 (27.11.03).

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 27.5.04 as HC 1304, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1303, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

Date	Subject
15.1.04	Two, on amendments to the Chairman's draft Report on Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism
27.1.04	One, on a Motion to publish a press notice with a Report
2.3.04	Two, on Motions to write to the Foreign Secretary
9.3.04	Two, on Motions to write to witnesses of the Decision to go to War in Iraq inquiry
20.7.04	One, on a Motion to instruct the Clerks to prepare a paper in relation to the Butler Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction

Debates

The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Second Report, Session 2003-04, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism, HC 81 and the Government's Response, Cm 6162, 20.5.04

Seventh Report, Session 2003-04, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism, HC 441 and the Government's Response, Cm 6340, 4.11.04

The following Report was tagged on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

Eighth Report, Session 2002-03, Zimbabwe, HC 339 and the Government's Response, Cm 5869, 1.7.04

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 23 of the Committee's 37 meetings.[5] On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Cyprus	4
Developments in the European Union	2
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2003-04	2
Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism^A	7
Human Rights Annual Report 2003^A	1
Iran	1
South Africa^A	3
Strategic Export Controls^{A, B}	1
Western Balkans	3
Total	24

^A The Committee took oral evidence on this Inquiry in Session 2002-03; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (2003-04)).

^B Jointly with Defence, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees.

20 HEALTH

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The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 35 meetings.

Members
Hinchliffe, Mr David (Chairman)
Amess, Mr David
Austin, John
Bradley, Mr Keith
Burns, Mr Simon
Burstow, Mr Paul (discharged 7.9.04)
Calton, Mrs Patsy (added 7.9.04)
Dowd, Jim
Jones, Mr Jon Owen
McDonagh, Siobhain
Naysmith, Dr Doug
Taylor, Dr Richard

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
32
29
29
29
27
20
6
20
19
13
32
30

74.3 %
1
1
9.1 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Dr John Benger, Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1)
Second Clerk: Mr Keith Neary, Assistant Clerk (Band A3)
Committee Specialist: Laura Hilder (Band B1)
Committee Assistants: Mr Frank McShane, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2); Mr Darren Hackett (from 17.5.04), Chief Office Clerk (Band C)
Secretary: Mrs Anna Browning, Grade 3 (Band D1) (until 31.3.04), Grade 2 (Band C) (from 1.4.04)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

John Abraham, Professor Michael Adler, Professor Nick Bosanquet, Mr Sean Boyle, Professor Joe Collier, Dr Pamela Ewan, Professor Kenneth Fox, Professor Gerard Hastings, Ms Melanie Henwood, Professor Charles Medawar, Dr Harriet Middleton Scorer, Dr Anne Naysmith, Professor John Pasi, Dr Anton Pozniak, Mr Jon Sussex and Mr Chris Vellenoweth.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
Other Ministers
Members of the House of Commons
Members of the House of Lords (of whom 1 was a Minister)
Number of appearances by officials from, or representative of:
Department of Health
Other departments, comprising:
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Education and Skills
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments, comprising:
Food Standards Agency
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Commission for Health Improvement (CHI)
National Care Standard Commission
General Social Care Council
Special Health Authorities:
NHS Direct
NHS Trusts, comprising:
Addenbrookes Hospital
East Anglia Ambulance Trust
Grampian University Hospitals
Primary Care Trusts, comprising:
Greater Derby
Leeds North West
West Hull
Appearances by other witnesses

10
10
1
1

31

1
1
2

3
1
1
1
1

2

2
2
1

1
3
2
74

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
9-13.2.04	Finland and Denmark	Hinchliffe, Amess, Austin, Bradley, Burns, Burstow, Jones, Naysmith, Taylor	2	Inquiries into Obesity; Elder Abuse; and Palliative Care	£15,461.58
16-23.10.04	Australia	Hinchliffe, Amess, Austin, Bradley, Burns, Calton, Dowd, Jones, Taylor	2	Inquiry into The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry	£49,768.88

Visits to European Institutions

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
8-9.12.03	Brussels	Hinchliffe, Amess, Bradley, Burstow, Jones, Naysmith, Taylor	3	Inquiry into Obesity	£2,619.01

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
17-18.5.04	Edinburgh	Hinchliffe, Amess, Austin, Naysmith, Taylor	2	Inquiry into Palliative Care	£2,807.55
12-13.7.04	Cardiff	Hinchliffe, Amess, Austin, Dowd, Jones	3	Inquiry into The Provision of Allergy Services	£2,293.72

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
First Report: The Work of the Health Committee 2003	239	28.1.04	11	£5.00	Not required
Second Report: Elder Abuse	111-I	20.4.04	61	£13.50	Cm 6270, published 24.6.04
Oral and Written Evidence: Elder Abuse	111-II	20.4.04	206	£20.50	Not applicable
Third Report: Obesity	23-I	27.5.04	146	£17.50	Awaited
Oral and Written Evidence: Obesity	23-II	27.5.04	461	£33.00	Not applicable
Written Evidence: Obesity	23-III	14.6.04	235	£21.50	Not applicable
Fourth Report: Palliative Care	454-I	22.7.04	50	£12.00	Cm 6327, published 16.9.04
Oral and Written Evidence: Palliative Care	454-II	26.7.04	311	£23.50	Not applicable
Fifth Report: GP Out-of-Hours Services	697-I	6.8.04	42	£11.00	Cm 6352, published 14.10.04
Oral and Written Evidence: GP Out-of-Hours Services	697-II	6.8.04	155	£16.50	Not applicable
Sixth Report: The Provision of Allergy Services	696-I	2.11.04	70	£13.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Provision of Allergy Services	696-II	2.11.04	206	£20.50	Awaited
Oral and Written Evidence: The Responsibilities of the Lord Warner	397-i	24.3.04	20	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Responsibilities of the Minister of State for Health	608-i	30.7.04	30	£7.00	Not applicable
Memoranda: Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Services 2003	1108^A	5.1.04	232	£21.50	Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry	1030-i	15.9.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: The Influence of The Pharmaceutical Industry	1030-ii	20.10.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry	1030-iii	17.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Public expenditure 2004	1114-i	29.10.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Public expenditure 2004	1114-ii	2.12.04			Not applicable

^A HC No. refers to Session 2002-03

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

None.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 5.3.04 as HC 1305, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1304, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

The following Reports were debated in Westminster Hall:

Third Report, Session 2002-03, Sexual Health, HC 69-I, 15.1.04

Second Report, Session 2003-04, Elder Abuse, HC 111-I, 1.7.04

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 24 of the Committee's 35 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Elder Abuse^A	2
GP Out-of-Hours Services	2
Obesity^A	7
Palliative Care	4
Public Expenditure 2004	2
Responsibilities of The Lord Warner Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health	1
The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry	3
The Provision of Allergy Services	2
The Responsibilities of the Minister of State for Health	1
Total	24

^A The Committee took oral evidence on this Inquiry in Session 2002-03; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1(2003-04)).

21 HOME AFFAIRS

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The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 39 meetings. These included 1 meeting held concurrently with the Defence Committee (abbreviated to `CM' in the attendance table below).

Members
Denham, Mr John (Chairman)
Anderson, Janet
Cameron, Mr David (added 26.1.04, discharged 11.10.04)
Clappison, Mr James
Curtis-Thomas, Mrs Claire
Dean, Mrs Janet
Green, Mr Damian (added 11.10.04)
Prosser, Mr Gwyn
Russell, Bob
Singh, Mr Marsha
Taylor, Mr John
Widdecombe, Miss Ann (discharged 26.1.04)
Winnick, David

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
36
17 (including 1 CM)
6 (including 1 CM)
31
20
32 (including 1 CM)
5
37 (including 1 CM)
30
23 (including 1 CM)
29 (including 1 CM)
5
36 (including 1 CM)

71.8 %^A2
2
18.2 %

^A Not including concurrent meeting.

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Dr Robin James, Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1)
Second Clerk: Mr Mark Etherton, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Adviser (Sentencing Guidelines): Kate Akester (from 19.4.04) (Band A2)
Committee Specialists: Mr Alexander Horne (shared) (until 14.12.03) (Band B1); Jane Gordon (until 15.10.04) (Band B1); Dr Ben Morris (from 2.2.04) (Band B1)
Media Officer: Adele Brown (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistants: Mr Ian Thomson, Senior Executive Officer (Band B1); Mrs Carolyn Bowes (until 25.1.04), Chief Office Clerk (Band C)
Secretary: Mrs Melanie Barklem (until 23.8.04), Grade 2 (Band C); Rowena Macdonald (from 6.9.04), Grade 2 (Band C)
Senior Office Clerk: Mr John-Paul Flaherty (from 15.3.04) (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor Brian Collins, Mr Robert Cummines, Mr Robert Duncan and Professor Angela Sasse.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
Ministers other than Cabinet Ministers
Members of the House of Lords
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Home Office
Other departments comprising:
Cabinet Office
Department for Work and Pensions
Office for National Statistics
Executive agencies comprising:
HM Prison Service
Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
Commission for Racial Equality
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Office of the Information Commissioner
Sentencing Guidelines Council
Appearances by other witnesses

4
8
2

17

2
1
2

5

2
4
4
2
53

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
9-14.5.04	Stockholm and Berlin	Denham, Clappison, Curtis-Thomas, Dean, Prosser, Russell, Singh	2	Inquiries into Identity Cards and The Rehabilitation of Prisoners	£19,296.46

Visits to European Institutions

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
21.9.04	Brussels^A	Denham	0	Meeting of European Parliament Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and representatives of corresponding committees of National Parliaments	£367.00 (estimated outturn)

^A Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
20.1.04	HM Prisons Elmley, Swaleside and Standford Hill	Denham, Clappison, Dean	4^A	Inquiry into The Rehabilitation of Prisoners	£468.44
5.2.04	HMYOI Aylesbury and HM Prisons Grendon and Springhill	Denham, Clappison, Dean, Prosser, Winnick	4^A	Inquiry into The Rehabilitation of Prisoners	£418.15
29.4.04	HM Prison Brockhill and The Asha Centre	Denham, Dean, Prosser	4^A	Inquiry into The Rehabilitation of Prisoners	£581.70
6.5.04	UK Passport Service Headquarters, London	Denham, Clappison, Dean, Prosser, Russell, Singh	3^A	Inquiry into Identity Cards	£7.00
20.5.04	HM Prison Coldingley	Denham, Dean, Prosser, Singh, Winnick	5^A	Inquiry into The Rehabilitation of Prisoners	£273.45
22.6.04	HM Prison Belmarsh	Clappison, Curtis-Thomas, Dean, Prosser, Singh, Winnick	4	To observe the conditions of detainees held under anti-terrorism powers	£240.00

^A Includes 2 specialist advisers

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
First Report: Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill	109	16.12.03	75	£14.50	Cm 6132, published 23.2.04
Second Report: Asylum Applications	218-I	26.1.04	132	£17.50	Cm 6166, published 25.3.04
Oral and Written Evidence: Asylum Applications	218-II	26.1.04	265	£22.50	Not applicable
Third Report: The Work of the Home Affairs Committee in 2003	345	19.2.04	10	£5.00	Not required
Fourth Report: Identity Cards	130-I	30.7.04	99	£15.50	Cm 6359, published 27.10.04
Oral and Written Evidence: Identity Cards	130-II	30.7.04	317	£23.80	Not applicable
Fifth Report: Draft Sentencing Guidelines 1 and 2	1207	4.11.04	32	£10.00	Awaited
Oral and Written Evidence: The Work of the Home Office	1088-i^A	28.1.04	21	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Work of the Parole Board	1231-i^A	19.2.04	22	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission	289-i	3.6.04	35	£8.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Impact of EU Enlargement on Migration to the UK	435-i	28.6.04	24	£7.00	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Homeland Security^B	417-i	8.7.04	19	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral Evidence: Sentencing Guidelines	844-i	17.9.04	10	£4.00	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Anti-Terrorism Powers	886-i	19.11.04	37	£8.50	Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Rehabilitation of Prisoners	66-i	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Rehabilitation of Prisoners	66-ii	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Rehabilitation of Prisoners	66-iii	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Police Reform	1038-i	18.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Police Reform	1038-ii	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Police Reform	1038-iii	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Police Reform	1038-iv	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Rehabilitation of Prisoners	1245-i^A	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Rehabilitation of Prisoners	1245-ii^A	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Rehabilitation of Prisoners	1245-iii^A	16.11.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Home Office Departmental Report: Work of the Department in 2003-04	951-i	18.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: The Work of the Home Office	1222-i	5.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Terrorism and Community Relations	1250-i	15.11.04			Not applicable

^A HC No. refers to Session 2002-03.

^BJoint publication with the Defence Committee.

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

None.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 27.5.04 as HC 1306, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1305, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

Date	Subject
13.1.04	Nineteen, on consideration of the Chairman's draft Report on Asylum Applications.
13.7.04	Three, on consideration of the Chairman's draft Report on Identity Cards.
20.7.04	Three, on further consideration of the Chairman's draft Report on Identity Cards.

Debates

The following Report was tagged on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

First Report, Session 2003-04, Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill, HC 109, Debate on Second Reading of the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill, 17.12.03

The following Report was debated in Westminster Hall:

Second Report, Session 2003-04, Asylum Applications, HC 218, and the Government Response, Cm 6166, 8.7.04

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 25 of the Committee's 39 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Anti-Terrorism Powers	1
Home Office Departmental Report: Work of the Department in 2003-04^A	1
Homeland Security^B	1
Identity Cards	9
Impact of EU Enlargement on Migration to the UK	1
Police Reform^A	4
Rehabilitation of Prisoners^A C	3
Sentencing Guidelines	1
Terrorism and Community Relations^A	2
The Work of the Criminal Cases Review Commission	1
The Work of the Home Office	1
Total	25

^A The Committee did not complete this Inquiry in Session 2003-04.

^B Joint evidence session with the Defence Committee.

^C The Committee took oral evidence on this Inquiry in Session 2002-03; figures appear in the Return for that Session (HC 1 (2003-04)).

22 HUMAN RIGHTS (JOINT COMMITTEE)

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The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 6 Commons Members and held 30 meetings.

Members
Corston, Jean (Chairman)
Chidgey, Mr David
McNamara, Mr Kevin
Shepherd, Mr Richard
Stinchcombe, Mr Paul
Woodward, Mr Shaun

Overall Attendance:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
30
14
14
12
26
14

61.1 %
0.0 %

Commons Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Paul Evans (until 30.9.04), Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1); Mr Nick Walker (from 1.10.04), Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1)
Legal Adviser: Professor David Feldman (until 31.3.04) (joint appointment with the House of Lords) (SCS Band 2); Mr Murray Hunt (from 1.4.04) (joint appointment with the House of Lords) (SCS Band 2)
Committee Specialist: Róisín Pillay (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Duma Langton, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Ms Pam Morris, Grade 3 (Band D1) (until 31.3.04), Grade 2 (Band C) (from 1.4.04)
Senior Office Clerk: Mr Tes Stranger (from 19.4.04) (shared) (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Frances Butler, Professor David Feldman, Professor Kevin Gournay and Joe Levenson.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Members of the House of Lords
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Minister
Other Ministers
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Home Office
Public bodies and non-Ministerial departments comprising:
Children's Commissioner for Wales
Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland
Crown Prosecution Service
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales
Independent Police Complaints Commission
Mental Health Act Commission
Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People
Prisons and Probation Ombudsman for England and Wales
Police Complaints Authority
Appearances by other witnesses

3

1
3

5

1
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
2
12

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
17-19.3.04	Strasbourg	Corston, Chidgey, Shepherd	3	European Court of Human Rights	£6,016.73
6-11.6.04	South Africa	Corston, McNamara, Stinchcombe, Woodward	2	UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights / Commission for Equality and Human Rights	£18,537.58
13-14.10.04	Dublin	Corston, Chidgey, McNamara, Stinchcombe	3	Inquiry into Human Rights Commission	£4,347.24
16-17.11.04	Geneva^A		1	UN Convention Against Torture	£407.00

^A Travel in a representative capacity

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
6.5.04	HMP Winchester	Corston, Chidgey, Woodward	2^A	Deaths in custody	£411.11
13.5.04	Feltham YOI	McNamara, Stinchcombe	2^A	Deaths in custody	£223.39
20.5.04	HMP Pentonville & HMP Holloway	Corston, Stinchcombe	2^A	Deaths in custody	£254.61
16.9.04	Broadmoor	Corston, Chidgey	3^A	Deaths in custody	£373.65
21.10.04	Caswell clinic, Bridgend	Corston, Chidgey	3^A	Deaths in custody	£984.00

^A Includes 1 specialist adviser

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
First Report: Deaths in Custody: Interim Report	134	26.1.04	142	£17.50	Not applicable
Second Report: The Government's Response to the Committee's Ninth Report of Session 2002-03 on the Case for a Children's Commissioner for England	135	5.1.04	17	£6.50	Not applicable
Third Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Progress Report	252	26.1.04	34	£10.00	Not applicable
Fourth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Second Progress Report	303	10.2.04	57	£12.00	Not applicable
Fifth Report: Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill	304	10.2.04	54	£12.00	Not applicable
Sixth Report: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001: Statutory Review and Continuance of Part 4	381	24.2.04	33	£10.00	Not applicable
Seventh Report: The Meaning of "Public Authority" under the Human Rights Act	382	3.3.04	140	£16.50	Awaited
Eighth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Third Progress Report	427	15.3.04	67	£13.50	Not applicable
Ninth Report: Naval Discipline Act 1957 (Remedial) Order 2004	477	29.3.04	19	£6.50	Not applicable
Tenth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Fourth Progress Report	503	6.4.04	42	£11.00	Not applicable
Eleventh Report: Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Structure, Functions and Powers	536	5.5.04	157	£20.00	Cm 6295, published 21.7.04
Twelfth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Fifth Progress Report	603	20.5.04	84	£14.50	Not applicable
Thirteenth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Sixth Progress Report	640	4.6.04	124	£15.50	Not applicable
Fourteenth Report: Asylum & Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill: New Clauses	828	5.7.04	28	£8.50	Not applicable
Fifteenth Report: Civil Partnership Bill	885	15.7.04	35	£11.00	Not applicable
Sixteenth Report: Commission for Equality and Human Rights: The Government's White Paper	998	4.8.04	60	£13.00	Awaited
Seventeenth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Seventh Progress Report	999	4.8.04	85	£14.50	Not applicable
Eighteenth Report: Review of Counter-terrorism Powers	713	4.8.04	100	£15.50	Awaited
Nineteenth Report: Children Bill	537	21.9.04	118	£15.50	Awaited
Oral and Written Evidence: Children Bill	537-i	20.5.04	14	£4.00	Not applicable
Twentieth Report: Scrutiny of Bills: Eighth Progress Report	1187	1.11.04	67	£13.50	Not applicable
Twenty-First Report: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	1188	2.11.04	196	£22.00	Awaited
Twenty-Second Report: The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Specification of Particularly Serious Crimes) Order 2004	1212	3.11.04	26	£8.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Human Rights Policy	106-i	3.3.04	17	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Prosecution Policy	619-i	4.8.04	12	£4.00	Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Deaths in Custody	209-i	15.1.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Deaths in Custody	209-ii	29.1.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Deaths in Custody	209-iii	12.2.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Deaths in Custody	209-iv	4.3.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Deaths in Custody	209-v	18.3.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Deaths in Custody	209-vi	19.7.04			Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

Reply to the Committee's Ninth Report: The Case for a Children's Commissioner for England, received 2.12.03 and published as Second Report, Session 2003-04.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 will be published as HL Paper 4, Session 2003-04 and HC 1307, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HL Paper 25, Session 2004-05 and HC 1306, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

Date	Subject
2.2.04	One, on an amendment to the Chairman's draft Report on Scrutiny of Bills: Second Progress Report
23.2.04	Two, on amendments to the Chairman's draft Report on Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001: Statutory Review and Continuance of Part 4
29.3.04	One, on an amendment to the Chairman's draft Report on Scrutiny of Bills: Fourth Progress Report
12.5.04	Seven, on amendments to the Chairman's draft Report on Scrutiny of Bills: Fifth Progress Report
7.7.04	Twenty-four, on amendments to the Chairman's draft Report on the Civil Partnership Bill
8.9.04	Fourteen, on amendments to the Chairman's draft Report on the Children Bill

Debates

The following Reports and Oral and Written Evidence were tagged on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

Sixth Report, Session 2003-04, Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001: Statutory Review and Continuance of Part 4, HC 381, Newton Committee Report Debate, 25.2.04

Sixth Report, Session 2002-03, The Case for a Human Rights Commission, HC 489 and Oral and Written Evidence, Session 2003-04, Human Rights Policy, HC 106-I, International Women's Day Debate: "Women, Equality and Human Rights", 4.3.04

Eighth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Third Progress Report, HC 427 and Tenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Fourth Progress Report, HC 503, Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill: Consideration of Lords Amendments, 19.4.04

Eighth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Third Progress Report, HC 427 and Tenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Fourth Progress Report, HC 503, Housing Bill: Remaining stages, 11.5.04

Nineteenth Report, Session 2002-03, Draft Gender Recognition Bill, HC 1276, Fourth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Second Progress Report, HC 303 and Twelfth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Fifth Progress Report, HC 603, Remaining stages of the Gender Recognition Bill [Lords], 25.5.04

Third Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Progress Report, HC 252 and Fourth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Second Progress Report, HC 303, Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords], 14.6.04

Third Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Progress Report, HC 252, Fifth Report, Session 2003-04, Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill, HC 304, Thirteenth Report, Session 2003-04, Scrutiny of Bills: Sixth Progress Report, HC 640 and Fourteenth Report, Session 2003-04, Asylum & Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill: New Clauses, HC 828, Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill: Consideration of Lords Amendments, 12.7.04

Fifteenth Report, Session 2003-04, Civil Partnership Bill, HC 885, Second Reading of the Civil Partnership Bill [Lords], 12.10.04

Nineteenth Report, Session 2003-04, Children Bill, HC 537, Remaining stages of the Children Bill [Lords], 2.11.04

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 11 of the Committee's 30 meetings.[6] On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001: Statutory Review and Continuance of Part 4	2
Children Bill	3
Commission for Equality and Human Rights: Structure, Functions and Powers	1
Deaths in Custody	7
Meaning of 'Public Authority' under the Human Rights Act	1
Total	14

23 INFORMATION

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The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 9 Members and held 9 meetings.

Members
Key, Mr Robert (Chairman from 12.1.04) (added 8.12.03)
Allan, Mr Richard
Gerrard, Mr Neil
Jack, Mr Michael (Chairman until 8.12.03) (discharged 8.12.03)
Luff, Mr Peter
McKechin, Ann
Mann, John
Moran, Margaret
Prosser, Mr Gwyn
Sheridan, Jim

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
8
8
7
0
8
4
6
0
3
0

54.3 %
1
1
11.1 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Gordon Clarke, Senior Clerk (Band A2)
Secretary: Miss Dawn Summers, Grade 3 (Band D1) (until 31.3.04), Grade 2 (Band C) (from 1.4.04)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

None.

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
26-28.10.04	Stockholm^A	Key, Allan, Mann	1	Seventh European Conference of Members of National Parliaments on Information and Communications Technology	£3,136.44

^A Travel in a representative capacity

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

None.

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

None.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 15.6.04 as HC 1308, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1307, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Oral Evidence

None.

24 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 11 Members and held 39 meetings. These included 5 "Quadripartite" meetings held concurrently with the Defence, Foreign Affairs, and Trade and Industry Committees (listed as concurrent meetings (CM) in the attendance table below).

Members
Baldry, Tony (Chairman)
Barrett, John
Battle, Mr John
Bayley, Hugh
Bercow, Mr John (added 8.11.04)
Clwyd, Ann
Colman, Mr Tony
Davies, Mr Quentin
Khabra, Mr Piara S.
McCafferty, Chris
Robathan, Mr Andrew (added 8.12.03, discharged 8.11.04)
Walter, Mr Robert (discharged 8.12.03)
Worthington, Tony

Overall Attendance:Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
32 (including 1 CM)
23 (including 3 CM)
29 (including 4 CM)
21
1
13 (including 2 CM)
28 (including 3 CM)
28 (including 4 CM)
13 (including 1 CM)
7
20
1
25

59.6 %^A2
2
18.2 %

^A Not including concurrent meetings.

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr Alistair Doherty, Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1)
Second Clerk: Sarah Hartwell-Naguib, (until 1.10.04), Assistant Clerk (Band A3); Hannah Weston (from 4.10.04), Assistant Clerk (Band A3)
Committee Specialists: Dr Alan Hudson (Band B1); Dr Anna Dickson (from 1.10.04) (Band B1)
Media Officer: Adele Brown (shared) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Katie Phelan, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Mrs Wanda Wilson (until 2.4.04), Grade 3 (Band D1); Jennifer Steele (from 19.4.04), (temporary) (until 18.7.04), Grade 2 (Band C) (from 19.7.04)
Senior Office Clerk: Mr Philip Jones (from 8.3.04) (shared) (Band D1)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Dr Sibylle Bauer*, Professor Richard Black, Professor Stuart Corbridge, Dr Paul Cornish*, Mr Youssef Hajjar, Mr Larry Hollingworth, Professor Jonathan G Kydd, Dr Jens Lerche, Mr Edward Luce, Mr Simon Maxwell (on behalf of the Overseas Development Institute), Dr Karma Nabulsi and Dr Ramya Subrahmanian.

*Specialist Adviser to the Defence, Foreign Affairs, International Development and Trade and Industry Committees in their joint inquiry into Strategic Export Controls.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Cabinet Ministers
Other Ministers
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Department for International Development
Other departments comprising:
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Ministry of Defence
HM Treasury
Appearances by other witnesses

4
2

16

3
1
1
79

Overseas Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
17-27.1.04	East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia)	Baldry, Barrett, Battle, Bayley, Colman, Davies, Khabra, Robathan, Worthington	2	Inquiry into Migration and Development and oversight of DFID country programmes	£34,261.17
14-16.2.04	Paris^A	Worthington	1	5th Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network of the World Bank	£1,050.35
Cancelled	Madagascar			Inquiry into Migration and Development and oversight of DFID funded projects	£288.45
21-22.4.04	Stockholm^A	Baldry, Battle	1	To meet the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to discuss Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories	£540.79
28-29.4.04	Brussels and Paris	Colman		Inquiry into Strategic Export Controls by the Quadripartite Committee	£1,049.91
23-25.5.04	Dublin^A	Bayley	1	Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairmen (Development Cooperation)	£974.60
13-17.6.04	Sao Paulo, Brazil^A	Bayley		UNCTAD XI Ministerial Conference	£4,555.57 (estimated outturn)
21-24.9.04	Cape Town, South Africa^A	Worthington		AWEPA Conference on Children Orphaned by AIDS in Africa	£2,880.72
17-30.10.04	India^B	Baldry, Barrett, Battle, Bayley, Colman, Khabra, Robathan, Worthington	2	Inquiry into DFID's bilateral programme of assistance to India	£48,000 (estimated outturn)

^A Travel in a representative capacity

^B This represents 2 concurrent visits, with one visit beginning on Wednesday 20 October

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
First Report: Trade and Development at the WTO: Learning the lessons of Cancún to revive a genuine development round	92-I	11.12.03	55	£12.00	Received 10.2.04: published as Second Special Report, Session 2003-04
Oral and Written Evidence: Trade and Development at the WTO: Learning the lessons of Cancún to revive a genuine development round	92-II	11.12.03	89	£14.50	Not applicable
Second Report: Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories	230-I	5.2.04	86	£14.50	Received 16.3.04: published as Third Special Report, Session 2003-04
Oral and Written Evidence: Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories	230-II	5.2.04	289	£22.50	Not applicable
Third Report: Annual Report 2003	312	24.2.04	16	£6.50	Not required
Fourth Report: Kenya: DFID's Country Assistance Plan 2004-07 and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals	494	12.5.04	93	£15.50	Received 2.7.04: published as Fourth Special Report, Session 2003-04
Fifth Report: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2002, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny^A	390-I	18.5.04	196	£22.00	Cm 6357, published 20.10.04
Written Evidence: Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2002, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny^A	390-II	17.11.04	20	£5.50	Not applicable
Sixth Report: Migration and Development: How to make migration work for poverty reduction	79-I	8.7.04	102	£15.50	Awaited
Oral and Written Evidence: Migration and Development: How to make migration work for poverty reduction	79-II	8.7.04	286	£22.50	Not applicable
Seventh Report: DFID's Agriculture Policy	602	15.9.04	103	£15.50	Received 15.11.04: published as Fifth Special Report, Session 2003-04
Eighth Report: Department for International Development: Departmental Report 2004	749	25.11.04	116	£15.50	Awaited
First Special Report: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2002-03: Department for International Development: Departmental Report 2003	231	3.2.04	16	£6.00	Not applicable
Second Special Report: Government Response to the Committee's First Report: Trade and Development at the WTO: Learning the lessons of Cancún to revive a genuine development round	452	24.3.04	21	£5.50	Not applicable
Third Special Report: Government Response to the Committee's Second Report: Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories	487	30.3.04	19	£6.00	Not applicable
Fourth Special Report: Kenya: DFID's Country Assistance Plan 2004-07 and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals: Government Response to the Committee's Fourth Report	857	15.7.04	3	£3.00	Not applicable
Fifth Special Report: DFID's Agriculture Policy: Government Response to the Committee's Seventh Report	1273	25.11.04	8	£4.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Iraq^B	1116-i	18.12.03	18	£5.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Autumn Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF^B	1266	12.2.04	100	£14.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Orphans and children made vulnerable by AIDS	573	1.7.04	102	£14.50	Not applicable
Oral Evidence: Iraq: The role of humanitarian agencies in post-conflict situations	918-i	14.10.04	13	£4.00	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan	1058-i	18.11.04	12	£4.00	Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: DFID's bilateral programme of assistance to India	692-i	9.9.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: DFID's bilateral programme of assistance to India	692-ii	9.9.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Policy Coherence for Development and the Commission for Africa	1124-i	9.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: DFID's bilateral programme of assistance to India	692-iii	21.9.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Autumn Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank	1251-i	16.11.04			Not applicable

^A Joint publication with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees

^B HC No. refers to Session 2002-03

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

Reply to the Committee's Eighth Report: Department for International Development: Departmental Report 2003, received 12.1.04 and published as the Committee's First Special Report, Session 2003-04.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 19.4.04 as HC 1309, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1308, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

The following Report and Special Report were debated in Westminster Hall:

Second Report, Session 2003-04, Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, HC 230-I, and the Government Response, HC 487, 29.4.04

The following Reports, Special Reports and Oral Evidence were tagged on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in the House:

Seventh Report, Session 2002-03, Trade and Development at the WTO: Issues for Cancún, HC 400-I, and the Government Response, HC 1093, First Report, Session 2003-04, Trade and Development at the WTO: Learning the lessons of Cancún to revive a genuine development round, HC 92-I, and the Government Response, HC 452 (incorporating HC 353), Opposition Day Debate, Trade Justice for the Developing World, 3.3.04

Oral Evidence, Session 2003-04, Iraq: The role of humanitarian agencies in post-conflict situations, HC 918-i, Debate on Iraq, 20.7.04

The following Reports and Special Reports were tagged on the Order Paper as being relevant to a debate in a European Standing Committee:

Seventh Report, Session 2002-03, Trade and Development at the WTO: Issues for Cancún, HC 400-I and the Government Response, HC 1093, First Report, Session 2003-04, Trade and Development at the WTO: Learning the lessons of Cancún to revive a genuine development round, HC 92-I, and the Government Response, HC 452. European Standing Committee C Debate on European Union Document No. 15529/03, relating to the Doha Development Agreement, 5.5.04

Second Report, Session 2003-04, Development Assistance and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, HC 230-I, and the Government Response, HC 487. European Standing Committee B Debate on European Union Document No. 12441/03, relating to Co-operation with the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 11.5.04

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 26 of the Committee's 39 meetings. On 1 occasion evidence was taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Department for International Development: Departmental Report 2004	1
Development Assistance in Iraq^A	1
DFID's Agriculture Policy	2
DFID's bilateral programme of assistance to India^A	3
Iraq: The role of humanitarian agencies in post-conflict situations	1
Kenya: DFID's Country Assistance Plan 2004-07 and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals	1
Migration and Development: How to make migration work for poverty reduction	10
Orphans and children made vulnerable by AIDS	2
Policy Coherence for Development and the Commission for Africa^A	1
Strategic Export Controls: Annual Report for 2002, Licensing Policy and Parliamentary Scrutiny^B	2
The Autumn Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank	1
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan	1
Total	26

^A The Committee did not complete this Inquiry in Session 2003-04.

^B Jointly with the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Industry Committees.

25 LIAISON

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The Committee was nominated on 5 November 2001, 22 July 2002 and 7 January 2003.

It had 36 Members and held 12 meetings.

Members
Williams, Mr Alan (Chairman)
Adams, Mrs Irene
Ainsworth, Mr Peter
Allan, Mr Richard
Anderson, Donald
Baldry, Tony
Beith, Mr A.J.
Bell, Sir Stuart
Bennett, Andrew
Conway, Derek
Corston, Jean
Denham, Mr John
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
George, Mr Bruce
Gibson, Dr Ian
Hinchliffe, Mr David
Hood, Mr Jimmy
Jack, Mr Michael
Jones, Mr Martyn
Kaufman, Sir Gerald
Key, Mr Robert (added 12.1.04)
Kirkwood, Sir Archy
Leigh, Mr Edward
Lepper, Mr David
McFall, Mr John
McWilliam, Mr John
Mates, Mr Michael
O'Neill, Mr Martin
Pike, Mr Peter
Roe, Dame Marion
Sheerman, Mr Barry
Tredinnick, Mr David
Turner, Mr Dennis
Winterton, Sir Nicholas
Wright, Tony
Young, Sir George

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
10
4
5
6
8
1
9
2
9
7
3
7
9
6
10
7
7
8
5
6
8
10
10
7
7
0
3
5
10
4
9
2
7
11
7
12

56.0 %
1
0
0.0 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr George Cubie, Clerk of Committees (SCS Band 3)
Second Clerk: Mr Robert Wilson, Principal Clerk (SCS Band 2)
Committee Assistant: Ms Lis Partridge (from 19.1.04), Senior Executive Officer (Band B1)
Secretary: Mrs Catherine Close, Grade 2 (Band C)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Prime Minister
Other Ministers

2
1

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
First Report: Annual Report for 2003	446	22.3.04	68	£13.50	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Prime Minister - Tuesday 3 February 2004	310-i	19.3.04	28	£7.00	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: The Prime Minister - Tuesday 6 July 2004	310-ii	15.9.04	25	£7.00	Not applicable
Oral and Written Evidence: Evidence to Committees	1180-i	18.11.04	30	£8.50	Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

None.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 23.6.04 as HC 1310, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1309, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 3 of the Committee's 12 meetings. On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Evidence from the Prime Minister	2
Evidence to Committees	1
Total	3

25A Liaison Sub-Committee

The Committee was nominated on 31 January 2002.

It had 8 Members and held 2 meetings.

Members
Williams, Mr Alan (Chairman)
Allan, Mr Richard
Denham, Mr John (added 11.12.03)
Dunwoody, Mrs Gwyneth
Sheerman, Mr Barry
Winterton, Sir Nicholas
Wright, Tony
Young, Sir George

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
2
1
1
2
0
2
1
1

62.5 %
1
0
0.0 %

Staff

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

None.

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

None.

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

None.

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

Not applicable.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Sub-Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 23.6.04 as HC 1310, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Sub-Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1309, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

None.

Oral Evidence

None.

26 MODERNISATION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The Committee was nominated on 16 July 2001.

It had 15 Members and held 25 meetings.

Members
Hain, Mr Peter (Chairman)
Cameron, Mr David (discharged 9.12.03)
Coffey, Ann
Follett, Barbara
Heald, Mr Oliver (added 9.12.03)
Kidney, Mr David
Linton, Martin
McLoughlin, Mr Patrick (added 22.1.04)
Mitchell, Mr Andrew (discharged 22.1.04)
Picking, Anne
Pike, Mr Peter
Ruddock, Joan
Salter, Mr Martin
Shepherd, Mr Richard
Stunell, Mr Andrew
Tyler, Mr Paul
Winterton, Sir Nicholas

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
24
0
21
14
21
18
25
21
2
8
24
21
19
16
19
21
22

78.9 %
2
2
13.3 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Mr George Cubie, Clerk of Committees (SCS Band 3)
Second Clerk: Mr Tom Healey, Deputy Principal Clerk (SCS Band 1)
Committee Assistant: Ms Susan Morrison, Chief Office Clerk (Band C)
Secretary: Jane Cooper, Grade 3 (Band D1) (until 31.3.04), Grade 2 (Band C) (from 1.4.04)

Specialist Advisers during the Session

None.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
Number of appearances by:
Members of Parliament
Members of European Parliament
Officers of the House of Commons
Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
Scottish Parliament
London Assembly
Appearances by other witnesses

13
4
6

2
4
8

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

None.

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
26.1.04	Birmingham	Hain, Kidney, Linton, Pike, Ruddock, Stunell, Tyler	3	Connecting Parliament with the Public	£1,373.99
23.2.04	Reading	Hain, Coffey, Heald, Kidney, Linton, Pike, Salter, Stunell, Tyler	3	Connecting Parliament with the Public	£711.84
8.3.04	Cardiff	Hain, Heald, Kidney, Linton, McLoughlin, Pike, Salter, Shepherd, Tyler	3	Connecting Parliament with the Public	£1,745.20

Reports and Oral and Written Evidence

Title	HC No. (2003-04)	Date of publication	No. of pages	Sale price	Government reply
First Report: Connecting Parliament with the Public	368	16.6.04	130	£17.50	House of Commons Commission response received 18.11.04: published as First Special Report, Session 2004-05
Memorandum: Scrutiny of European Matters in the House of Commons: Government Memorandum from the Leader of the House of Commons	508	1.4.04	9	£4.00	Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Scrutiny of European Business	565-i	16.8.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Scrutiny of European Business	565-ii	8.9.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Scrutiny of European Business	565-iii	30.9.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Scrutiny of European Business	565-iv	13.10.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Scrutiny of European Business	565-v	14.10.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Sitting Hours	892-i	30.9.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Sitting Hours	892-ii	14.10.04			Not applicable
Evidence published on the Internet: Sitting Hours	892-iii	5.11.04			Not applicable
Uncorrected Evidence published on the Internet: Sitting Hours	892-iv	15.11.04			Not applicable

Government replies to Reports for Session 2002-03

None.

Minutes of Proceedings

The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2002-03 were published on 15.12.03 as HC 1311, Session 2002-03. The Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee for Session 2003-04 will be published as HC 1310, Session 2003-04.

Divisions

None.

Debates

A recommendation from the following Report was debated, and agreed to, in the House:

First Report, Session 2003-04, Connecting Parliament with the Public, HC 368, 26.10.04.

Oral Evidence

Oral Evidence was taken at 11 of the Committee's 25 meetings. [7] On none of these occasions was evidence taken partly or wholly in private.

Inquiry	Number of oral evidence sessions
Connecting Parliament with the Public	3
Scrutiny of European Business[8]	5
Sitting Hours⁸	4
Total	12

27 NORTHERN IRELAND AFFAIRS

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The Committee was nominated on 19 July 2001.

It had 13 Members and held 25 meetings.

Members
Mates, Mr Michael (Chairman)
Bailey, Mr Adrian
Barnes, Mr Harry (discharged 15.3.04)
Beggs, Mr Roy
Campbell, Mr Gregory (added 4.5.04)
Clarke, Mr Tony
Hepburn, Mr Stephen (added 15.3.04)
Luke, Mr Iain
McGrady, Mr Eddie
Pound, Mr Stephen
Robinson, Mr Peter (discharged 4.5.04)
Smyth, The Reverend Martin
Swire, Mr Hugo
Tami, Mark
Tynan, Mr Bill

Overall Attendance:
Number of Members added:
Number of Members discharged:
Turnover of membership during the Session:

Meetings attended
24
20
9
20
9
23
6
15
13
19
2
23
15
15
17

70.8 %
2
2
15.4 %

Staff

Clerk of the Committee: Elizabeth Hunt, Senior Clerk (Band A2) (until 19.4.04); Dr John Patterson (from 19.4.04), Senior Clerk (Band A2)

Attached Clerk: Mr Hugh Farren (from 8.1.03)
Committee Specialist: Dr Aileen O'Neill (from 26.1.04) (Band B1)
Committee Assistant: Mr Tony Catinella, Higher Executive Officer (Band B2)
Secretary: Camilla Brace (until 8.10.04), Grade 3 (Band D1) (until 31.3.04), Grade 2 (Band C) (from 1.4.04); Janet Trevellyan (from 11.10.04) (temporary)
Senior Office Clerk: Mr Jim Lawford (from 2.4.04 until 19.9.04) (Band D1); Mrs Sharon Still (from 11.10.04) (shared) (Band D1)

The following staff of the suspended Northern Ireland Assembly assisted the Committee with its work:

Ms Roisin Kelly, Mr Tim Moore and Mr Peter Gillespie, Research and Library Services

Specialist Advisers during the Session

Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, Mr Keith Bryett PhD, Ms Sally Evans, Dr Neil Jarman, Professor Colin Knox, Ms Karen McElrath PhD, Mr Angus McIntosh and Mr Alistair Munro.

Witnesses

Oral Evidence was given during the Session by the following categories of witnesses:
    Number of appearances by:
        Ministers other than Cabinet Ministers
        Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
    Number of appearances by officials from, or representatives of:
        Northern Ireland Office
        Northern Ireland Executive
        Other departments comprising:
            H.M. Customs and Excise
    Public bodies comprising:
        Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
        Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
        Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
    Executive agencies comprising:
        Compensation Agency
        Forensic Science Agency of Northern Ireland
        Northern Ireland Prison Service
    Appearances by other witnesses

7
3

17
9

1

3
3
4

3
1
2
93

Overseas Visits

None.

Visits to European Institutions

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
14-16.3.04	Brussels	Mates, Bailey, Beggs, Clarke, Luke, McGrady, Pound, Smyth, Tami	2	In connection with a number of inquiries and related Northern Ireland issues	£8,849.01

UK Visits

Date	Destination	Members	Staff	Purpose	Cost
9-10.2.04	Belfast	Mates, Bailey, Barnes, Clarke, Luke, Pound, Smyth, Tami	4^A	Inquiry into the Parades Commission and Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998	£6,061.38
26.4.04	Belfast	Mates, Bailey, Beggs, Clarke, Hepburn, Luke, Pound, Smyth, Swire, Tami, Tynan	5^B	Inquiry into The Parades Commission and Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998	£6,311.16
14.6.04	Belfast	Mates, Bailey, Beggs, Clarke, Luke, McGrady, Smyth, Swire	4^C	Inquiry into 'Hate Crime' in Northern Ireland	£3,797.11
19.7.04	Warrington Peace Centre	Clarke, Tami, Tynan	3	Inquiry into 'Hate Crime' in Northern Ireland	£1,273.00
13-14.9.04	Belfast	Mates, Bailey, Beggs, Campbell, Clarke, McGrady, Pound, Smyth, Tami, Tynan	7^D	Inquiry into 'Hate Crime' in Northern Ireland	£6,374.44
25.10.04	Belfast	Mates, Bailey, Beggs, Campbell, Clarke, Hepburn, McGrady, Smyth, Tynan	8^E	Inquiry into 'Hate Crime' in Northern Ireland	£4,038.85 (estimated outturn)

^A Includes 1 shorthand writer
^B Includes 2 shorthand writers
^C Includes 1 specialist adviser
^D Includes 2 specialist advisers and 2 shortha