§ Ordered,
§ That the Committee of Privileges do consist of seventeen members.
§ Ordered,
§ That Mr. Boyd-Carpentér, Mr. Wiliam Deedes, Mr. Hugh Fraser, Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker, Mr. Douglas Houghton, Sir Elwyn Jones, Mr. Charles Pannell, Mr. Fred Peart, Mr. J. Enoch Powell, Sir Peter Rawlinson, Mr Sandys, Mr. G. R. Strauss, Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, Sir Robin Turton, Sir Derek Walker-Smith. Mr. William Whitelaw, and Mr. Harold Wilson be members of the Committee.
§ Ordered,
§ That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records.
§ Ordered,
§ That six be the Quorum of the Committee.
§ Ordered,
§ That the matters of the complaints—
- (1) made on 14th July, 1971, relating to a matter reported in the Sun newspaper of that day and referred to the Committee of Privileges on 19th July in the last Session of Parliament, and
- (2) made on 21st October, namely, the publication of an article in the Daily Mail newspaper of that day and referred to the Committee of Privileges on 22nd October in the last Session of Parliament,