§ Ordered,
§ That a Select Committee be appointed to consider United Kingdom assistance for overseas development, and to report thereon.
§ The Committee was nominated of Sir Bernard Braine, Mr. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones, Mr. George Cunningham, Mr. Bryan Davies, Sir Geoffrey de Freitas, Mr. Michael Grylls, Mr. Michael Marshall and Mr. Kevin McNamara.
§ Ordered,
§ That the Committee 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.
1553§ Ordered,
§ That the Committee have powers to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time.
§ Ordered,
§ That Three be the Quorum of the Committee.
§ Ordered,
§ That the Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Overseas Development in the last Session of the last Parliament, together with the Memoranda laid before that Committee, 1554 be referred to the Committee.—[Mr. Walter Harrison.]