Mr. Deputy-SpeakerSelect Committee appointed to consider the Procedure in the Public Business of the House; and to report what alterations, if any, are desirable for the more efficient despatch of such Business:
Committee to consist of sixteen Members:
Mr.Peter Bessell, Mr.Arthur Blenkinsop, Mr.Channon, Mr. Donald Chapman, Mr. Michael English, Mr. Michael Foot, Mr. A. J. Irvine, Mr. Carol Johnson, Mr. James Johnson, Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, Dame Edith Pitt, Sir Martin Redmayne, Sir William Robson Brown, Mr.Julian Snow, Mr.Thomas Steele, and Mr. Turton.
Third Report of the Select Committee on Procedure in the last Session of the last Parliament referred to the Committee:
Power to send for persons, papers and records:
Power to report from time to time:
Instruction to the Committee to report first on:
Five to be the Quorum.—[Mr. Bowden.]
- (a) the expediency of appointing a Committee to which Bills other than Bills relating exclusively to Scotland or Wales could be referred for Second Reading with the aim of reducing the time required for proceedings on such Bills in the House;
- (b) the times of sittings of the House;
- (c) the expediency of providing that Private Members' Motions under Standing Order No. 13 (Motions for leave to bring in Bills and nomination of Select Committees at commencement of public Business) should be set down for consideration after Ten o'clock, instead of as provided in the Standing Order, with the aim of reducing the congestion of Business after Questions: