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Ordered,
That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the Green Paper on proposals for a Wealth Tax (Command Paper No. 5704) and to report thereon.
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Ordered,
That the Committee do consist of Twenty-one Members.
And the Committee was nominated of Mr. Guy Barnett, Mr. Jeremy Bray, Mr. Ray Carter, Mr. William Clark, Mr. Robert Cooke, Mr. Tarn Dalyell, Mr. Denzil Davies, Mr. Gow, Sir John Hall, Mr. Paul Hawkins, Mr. John Horam, Mr. Douglas Jay, Mr. Maurice Macmillan, Mr. Robert McCrindle, Mrs. Millie Miller, Mr. John Nott, Mr. John Pardoe, Dr. Colin Phipps, Mr. John Roper, Mr. Timothy Sainsbury, and Mr. Brian Walden.
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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 report from time to time; and to report Minutes of Evidence from time to time.
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Ordered,
That Five be the Quorum of the Committee.
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Ordered,
That the Committee have power to appoint persons with expert knowledge, either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference.— [Mr. Walter Harrison.]