HC Deb 21 November 1974 vol 881 cc1658-9

Ordered, That there shall be a Select Committee to consider Science and Technology and to report thereon from time to time:

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, and to report from time to time the Minutes of the Evidence take before them and any Memoranda submitted to them. That Five be the Quorum of the Committee.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to appoint Sub-committees and to refer to such Subcommittees any of the matters referred to the Committees.

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, and to report to the Committee from time to time.

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 the Evidence taken before such Sub-committees and any Memoranda submitted to them.

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.

Ordered, That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House until the end of this Parliament.—[Mr. Walter Harrison.]