HC Deb 14 November 1969 vol 791 cc803-4

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the activities of the Department of Education and Science and the Scottish Education Department and to report from time to time:

Ordered, That Mr. Walter Alldritt, Mr. Ronald Bell, Mr. Donald Dewar, Mr. Richard Hornby, Mr. Gilbert Longden, Mr. Kenneth Marks, Mr. Richard Mitchell, Mr. Trevor Park, Mr. Christopher Price, Mr. Arnold Shaw, Mr. van Straubenzee, Mr. Frederick Willey, and Mr. Esmond Wright be Members of the Committee:

Ordered, That the Committee 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, and to report Minutes of Evidence from time to time:

Ordered, That the Committee have power to appoint persons with technical knowledge either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference:

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum:

Ordered, That the Committee have power to appoint Sub-Committees and to refer to such Sub-Committees any of the matters referred to the Committee:

Ordered, That every such Sub-Committee 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:

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of every such Sub-Committee:

Ordered, That the Committee have power to report from time to time the Minutes of Evidence taken before such Sub-Committees and reported by them to the Committee:

Ordered, That part of the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Education and Science on 1st and 10th July, 1969, in the last Session of Parliament, together with Memoranda, be referred to the Committee.—[Mr. Dobson.]