Science and Technology: Select Committee (Hansard, 28 October 1996)

§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Boston of Faversham)

My Lords, I beg to move the first Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider science and technology and that, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the Select Committee:

L. Craig of Radley,
L. Dainton,
L. Dixon-Smith,
L. Flowers,
L. Gregson,
L. Haskel,
B. Hogg,
L. Kirkwood,
L. Phillips of Ellesmere,
L. Porter of Luddenham,
L. Redesdale,
E. Selborne (Chairman),
L. Soulsby of Swaffham Prior,
L. Tombs,
L. Winston;

That the committee have power to appoint sub-committees and that the committee have power to appoint the chairmen of sub-committees;

That the committee have power to co-opt any Lord for the purposes of serving on the committee or any sub-committee;

That the committee have leave to report from time to time;

That the committee and any sub-committee have power to adjourn from place to place;

That the committee and any sub-committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;

That the minutes of evidence taken before the committee or any sub-committee from time to time shall, if the committee thinks fit, be printed and delivered out;

That the minutes of evidence taken before the Science and Technology Committee or any sub-committee in the last Session of Parliament be referred to the committee; and

112 That the committee do meet on Wednesday 13th November at three o'clock.—(The Chairman of Committees.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.