§ Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [9th November]:
§ That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the practice of moving amendments on going into Committee of Supply upon the Navy, Army, Air and Civil Estimates; the practice relating to Money Resolutions; the extension of the Standing Orders relating to public money to expenditure from Funds partly, but not wholly, financed from the Exchequer, being expenditure not directly involving a charge upon the Consolidated Fund or upon money provided by Parliament; the numbers required to form a Quorum of, and for the Closure in, a Standing Committee; and the constitution of the Scottish Standing Committee, and to report whether any changes are desirable in the Standing Orders, practice or procedure of the House in these matters or in matters connected therewith.—[Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith.]
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Committee to consist of Sixteen Members;
§ Major Sir William Anstruther-Gray, Lieutenant-Commander Baldock, Mr. Bellenger, Sir Herbert Butcher, Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, Sir Thomas Dugdale, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Eric Fletcher, Sir Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, Mr. Glenvil Hall, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Mr. Mitchison, Mr. Pickthorn, Mr. Kenneth Thompson, Mr. Wade, and Mr. Woodburn:
§ Power to send for persons, papers and records; to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House; and to report from time to time:
§ Five to be the Quorum.—[Mr. E. Wakefield.]