HC Deb 23 November 1967 vol 754 c1605

Select Committee appointed to consider Science and Technology and to report thereon from time to time:

Mr. Tam Dalyell, Dr. Ernest Davies, Mr. David Ginsburg, Mr. Stephen Hastings, Mr. Robert L. Howarth, Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, Mr. Eric Lubbock, Mr. Eric Moonman, Mr. Airey Neave, Sir Ian Orr-Ewing, Dr. David Owen, Mr. Arthur Palmer, Mr. Brian Parkyn and Mr. David Price:

Power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to admit strangers during the examination of witnesses unless they otherwise order, and to report Minutes of Evidence from time to time:

Four to be the Quorum:

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 have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report to the Committee from time to time, and to admit strangers during the examination of witnesses unless they otherwise order:

Three to be the Quorum of every such Sub-Committee:

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

During the present Session power to appoint persons with technical or scientific knowledge for the purpose of particular inquiries, either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference.—[Mr. Varley.]