HC Deb 23 February 1927 vol 202 cc1827-8

Ordered, "That a Select Committee be appointed to examine such of the Estimates presented to this House as may seem fit to the Committee, and to suggest the form in which the Estimates shall be presented for examination, and to report what, if any, economies, consistent with the policy implied in those Estimates, may be effected therein."

Ordered, That the Committee do consist of Twenty-eight Members.

Mr. Ammon, Major Astor, Mr. Walter Baker, Mr. Bennett, Captain Bourne, Mr. Brocklebank, Mr. Charleton, Brigadier-General Charteris, Captain Craig, Mr. Dalton, Mr. Ernest Evans, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, Mr. Hannon, Lieut.-Colonel Vivian Henderson, Captain Loder, Sir John Marriott, Mr. Geoffrey Pete, Sir Philip Pilditch, Mr. Potts, Mr. Ramsden, Lieut.-Colonel Spender-Clay, Mr. Townend, Colonel Vaughan-Morgan, Mr. Wiggins, Mr. Thomas Williams, Sir Fredric Wise, Commander Charles Williams, and Colonel Woodcock nominated Members of the Committee.

Ordered, That Seven be the quorum of the Committee.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records, and to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House.

Ordered, That the Committee have power, if they so determine, to appoint one or more Sub-Committees, and in that event to apportion the subjects referred to the Committee between the Sub-Committees, any of which shall have the full powers of the undivided Committee; and that Four be the quorum of any of the Sub-Committees.

Ordered, That the Committee do report any evidence taken by the Committee or by any of the Sub-Committees to the House.—[Mr. F. C. Thomson.]

Mr. SPEAKER

As there is business appointed for 8.15, I shall suspend the sitting until that time.

Sitting suspended at Twenty-one minutes after Six o'Clock.