HC Deb 07 November 1974 vol 880 c1380

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider the arrangements to be made pursuant to the Resolutions of the House of 22nd May in the last Parliament relative to the declaration of Members' interests and the registration thereof, and, in particular:

  1. (a) what classes of pecuniary interest or other benefit are to be disclosed;
  2. (b) how the register should be compiled and maintained and what arrangements should be made for public access thereto;
  3. (c) how the resolutions relating to declaration and registration should be enforced;
  4. (d) what classes of person (if any) other than Members ought to be required to register;
and to make recommendations upon these and any other matters which are relevant to the implementation of the said Resolutions.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records; to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House; to report from time to time; and to report from time to time the Minutes of the Evidence taken before them and Memoranda submitted to them.

Ordered, That the Committee do consist of Fourteen Members. And the Committee was nominated of Mr. Cant, Mr. Nicholas Edwards, Mr. Hall-Davis, Sir Michael Havers, Mr. Sydney Irving, Mr. Colin Jackson, Mr. Simon Mahon, Mr. Angus Maude, Mr. Arthur Palmer. Mr. James Prior, Mr. Nigel Spearing, and Mr. Frederick Willey.

Ordered, That Five be the Quorum of the Committee.

Ordered, That the Committee shall report to the House, within the shortest reasonable period, their recommendations, especially with regard to paragraphs (a),(b) and (c).

Ordered, That the Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Members' Interests (Declaration) in the last Parliament and reported by them to the House on 29th July be referred to the Committee. [Mr. Walter Harrison.]

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