HC Deb 23 June 1955 vol 542 cc1637-8

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:

To consist of thirty-six Members:

Mr. Blackburn, Sir Alfred Bossom, Miss Burton, Mr. Norman Cole, Viscountess Davidson, Sir Eric Errington, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Holt, Sir Ian Horobin, Mr. H. Hynd, Mr. T.W. Jones, Mr. MacColl, Mr. Malcolm MacPherson, Commander Maitland, Major Sir Frank Markham, Mr. Mulley, Mr. Godfrey Nicholson, Mr. Nigel Nicolson, Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Ian Orr-Ewing, Sir Leslie Plummer, Brigadier Prior-Palmer, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, Mr. William Shepherd, Mr. Joseph Slater, Mr. Sparks, Mr. Geoffrey Stevens, Mr. Summers, Mr. Tomney, Mr. Vaughan-Morgan, Dame Irene Ward, Captain Waterhouse, Mr. Paul Williams, and Mr. Willis:

Seven to be the Quorum:

Minutes of Evidence taken before Sub-Committees B, C, D, E, and F, of the Select Committee on Estimates in the last Session of the last Parliament 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 SubCommittees.—[Colonel J. H. Harrison.]