HC Deb 11 November 1959 vol 613 cc525-6

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. Bidgood, Mrs. Joyce Butler, Mr. Robert Carr, Mr. Gresham Cooke, Mr. Beresford Craddock, Mr. Harold Davies, Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Mr. Robert Edwards, Sir Eric Errington, Mr. Glover, Colonel Glyn, Mr. Goodhart, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Hornby, Mr. Kershaw, Commander Maitland, Major Sir Frank Markham, Mr. Roy Mason, Mr. McCann, Mr. MacColl, Mr. Mellish, Mr. Mulley, Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Mr. Norman Pannell, Mr. Peel, Mr. Randall, Mr. Joseph Slater, Mr. Speir, Sir Spencer Summers, Mr. Leslie Thomas, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Turton, Mr. Wilkins, and Mr. Woof:

Seven to be the Quorum:

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 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 the Minutes of the Evidence taken before Sub-Committees and reported by them to the Committee.—[Mr. Legh.]