HC Deb 17 May 1966 vol 728 cc1269-70

Select Committee appointed to advise Mr. Speaker on the control of the accommodation and services in that part of the Palace of Westminster and its precincts occupied by or on behalf of the House of Commons and to report thereon to this House:—

Committee to consist of Seventeen Members:

Mr. Herbert W. Bowden, Mrs. Braddock, Mr. Channon, Mr. Donald Chapman, Sir Myer Galpern, Mr. William Hamling, Mr. Michael Jopling, Mr. Harold Lever, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, Sir Frank Pearson, Mr. Edward Short, Mr. Sydney Silverman, Mr. David Steel, Dr. Shirley Summerskill, Dame Joan Vickers, Mr. William Whitelaw, and Sir Gerald Wills:

Five to be the Quorum:

Second Special Report from the Select Committee on Publications and Debates Reports in Session 1964–65 of the last Parliament referred to the Committee:

Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Library Sub-Committee appointed by the Select Committee on House of Commons (Services) in the last Session of the last Parliament, with Appendices, and reported to the House on 7h March referred to the Committee:

Power to send for persons, papers and records; to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House; and to report from time to time:

Power to appoint Sub-Committees and to refer to such Sub-Committees any of the matters referred to the Committee:

Every such Sub-Committee to include not more than Five Members nominated by the House, after the Committee shall have made recommendations thereon:

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 report to the Committee from time to time:

Power to report from time to time the Minutes of Evidence taken before Sub-Committees and reported by them to the Committee:

Any Sub-Committee which may be appointed to deal with the organisation of, and the provision of Services in, the Library to have the assistance of the Librarian.—[Mr. Lawson.]