HC Deb 25 November 1970 vol 807 c574

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider Science and Technology and to report thereon from time to time.

Ordered, That Mr. Bob Brown, Dr. John Cunningham, Mr. David Ginsberg, Mr. Ted Leadbitter, Sir Harry Legge-Bourke, Mr. Ian Lloyd, Mr. Airey Neave, Mr. John Osborn, Mr. Arthur Palmer, Mr. Keith Stainton, Mr. Gavin Strang, Dr. Tom Stuttaford. Mr. Tebbit and Mr. Kenneth Warren 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, to admit strangers during the examination of witnesses unless they otherwise order, and to report Minutes of Evidence from time to time.

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.

Ordered, That the Committee have 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. Fortescuel]