HC Deb 07 December 1956 vol 561 cc1645-6

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

To consist of thirty-six Members:

Mr. Burke, Miss Burton, Mr. Norman Cole, Mr. Gresham Cooke, Sir Henry D'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Eric Errington, Mr. George, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Green, Mr. Hamilton, Mrs. Hill, Mr. Hobson, Mr. Holt, Sir Ian Horobin, Mr. Cledwyn Hughes, Commander Maitland, Mr. MacColl, Mr. Malcolm MacPherson, Major Sir Frank Markham, Mr. Mulley, Mr. Godfrey Nicholson, Sir Ian Orr-Ewing, Mr. Osborne, Brigadier Prior-Palmer, Mr. Proctor, Mr. Randall, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, Mr. Joseph Slater,

Mr. William Shepherd, Mr. Sparks, Sir Spencer Summers, Mr. Tomney, Mr. Vaughan-Morgan, Captain Waterhouse, Mr. Paul Williams, and Mr. Willis:

Seven to be the Quorum:

Minutes of the Evidence taken before Sub-Committees D. E and F appointed by the Select Committee on Estimates in the last Session of Parliament, which were laid before the House on 5th November, be 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 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 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 the Minutes of the Evidence taken before Sub-Committees and reported by them to the Committee.—[Mr. Wills.]