Volume 1

The regulation of private and other independent healthcare : fifth report / Health Committee.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee.
Date:
1999
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Credit: The regulation of private and other independent healthcare : fifth report / Health Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Health Committee is appointed under Standing Order No. 152 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Health 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 a committee appointed under this order shall continue to be members of that committee 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 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 (d) to meet concurrently with any other such committee or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee therefore 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) Mr Simon Burns (added 5 July 1999) Julia Drown Mr John Gunnell Mr David Hinchliffe Ann Keen (discharged I] February 1999) Mr Andrew Lansley (discharged 20 July 1998) Mr Ivan Lewis (added ] February 1999) Dr Howard Stoate Mr Robert Syms Mr Robert Walter (added 2] July 1997, discharged 5 July 1999) Audrey Wise Mr David Hinchliffe was elected Chairman on 17 July 1997.