HC Deb 30 April 1918 vol 105 cc1506-7

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider and report what articles and places ought respectively to be classed as articles of luxury and places of luxury for the purpose of the provisions of any Act of the present Session which may impose a duty on payments made in respect of the purchase or supply of articles of luxury or on payments made in respect of goods sold or supplied, accommodation supplied, or services rendered, at any place of luxury:

Mr. Acland, Sir John Harmood-Banner, Mr. Brookes, Mr. Butcher, Mr. Davison Dalziel, Sir Henry Dalziel, Mr. Timothy Davies, Sir Edward Goulding, Mr. Hinds, Mr. Kennedy Jones, Mr. Kiley, Mr. Partington, and Mr. Tyson Wilson nominated members of the Select Committee.

Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Committee, in preparing the list of articles of luxury, to divide it into two parts, the one of which shall contain those articles which are intrinsically articles of luxury and the other of which shall contain those articles which ought to be treated as articles of luxury if sold at or above any specified price.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to appoint from outside its own body such additional persons as it may think fit to serve on any Sub-committees which it may appoint, with a view to the preparation of lists of articles of luxury of any particular classes, or lists of places of luxury of any particular classes or in any particular localities.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.

Ordered, That five be the quorum.—[Lord Edmund Talbot.]