§ Resolution of the House [28th March] relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee, and so much of the Lords Message [10th April] as signifies their concurrence in the said Resolution, read.
§ Select Committee appointed to join with a Committee to be appointed by the Lords to consider whether any, and if so what, changes should be made in the rights of Peers of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain or of the United Kingdom, and of Peeresses in their own right, to sit in either House of Parliament, or to vote at Parliamentary elections, and whether, and if so under what conditions, a Peer should be enabled to surrender a peerage permanently or for his lifetime or for any less period having 648 regard to the effects and consequences thereof:
§ Mr. F. M. Bennett, Mr. Edward du Cann, Mrs. Evelyn Emmet, Mr. Gordon Walker, Mr. Leslie Hale, Mr. Gilbert Longden, Mr. Mitchison, Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe, Mr. Charles Pannell, Sir Kenneth Pickthorn, and Mr. Donald Wade:
§ Power to send for persons, papers and records, and to report from time to time:
§ Five to be the Quorum.—[Mr. Hughes-Young.]
§ Message to the Lords to acquaint them with such of the Orders as are necessary to be communicated to their Lordships, and to request them to appoint an equal number of Lords to join with the Committee appointed by this House.