HC Deb 12 November 1953 vol 520 cc1247-8

Select Committee 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:

Committee to consist of thirty-six Members:

Mr. Albu, Mr. Blackburn, Sir Alfred Bossom, Mr. Dryden Brook, Miss Burton, Mr. Norman Cole, Viscountess Davidson, Sir Patrick Donner, Sir Fergus Graham, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Holt. Mr. Horobin, Mr. H. Hynd, M. A. J. Irvine, Mr. T. W. Jones, Mr. MacColl, Mr. Malcolm MacPherson, Sir Frank Markham, Mr. Mulley, Mr. Godfrey Nicholson, Mr. Nigel Nicolson, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Ian Orr-Ewing, Mr. Peyton, Sir Leslie Plummer, Mr. J. T. Price, Mr. William Ross, Mr. William Shepherd, Mr. G. P. Stevens, Mr. Storey, Mr. Summers, Mr. Tomney, Miss Ward, Captain Waterhouse, Mr. Ian Winterbottom and Mr. Yates:

Seven to be the Quorum:

Minutes of Evidence taken before Sub-Committee C of the Select Committee on Estimates in the last Session of Parliament on 23rd March and subsequent dates referred to the Committee:

Power 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:

Power to appoint Sub-Committees and to refer to such Sub-Committees any of the matters referred to the Committee:

Three to be the Quorum of every such Sub-Committee:

Every such Sub-Committee to have power to send for persons, papers and records; to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House; and to adjourn from place to place:

Power to report from time to time Minutes of Evidence taken before Sub-Committees.—[Mr. Wills.]