§ Select Committee appointed to consider Scottish Affairs:
§ Committee to consist of Sixteen Members:
§ Mr. John Brewis, Mr. Donald Dewar, Mr. Alex Eadie, Mrs. Winifred Ewing, Sir John Gilmour, Mr. William Hannan, Mr. Adam Hunter, Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison, Mr. Russell Johnston, Mr. George Lawson, Mr. John P. Mackintosh, Mr. Robert Maclennan, Mr. John Robertson, Mr. Thomas Steele, Mr. Esmond Wright and Mr. George Younger:
§ 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 and to admit strangers during the examination of witnesses unless they otherwise order; to report from time to time, and to report Minutes of Evidence from time to time.
§ Eight to be the Quorum;
§ Committee to have power to appoint persons with expert 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.
§ Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs in the last 1141 Session of Parliament together with Memoranda to be referred to the Committee.
§ Committee to have power to appoint two Sub-Committees each consisting of not more than six Members 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;
§ Committee to have power to report from time to time the Minutes of Evidence taken before such Sub-Committees and reported by them to the Committee:
§ Three to be the Quorum of every such Sub-Committee.—[Mr. Harper.]