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Ordered,
That there shall be a Select Committee to consider United Kingdom assistance for overseas development, and to report thereon.
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Ordered,
That the Committee have power to appoint persons with expert knowledge for the purpose
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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 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.
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Ordered,
That Three be the Quorum of the Committee.
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Ordered,
That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House until the end of this Parliament.
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Ordered,
That Sir Bernard Braine, Mr. George Cunningham, Mr. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler, Sir Geoffrey de Freitas, Mr. Michael Grylls, Mr. James Johnson, Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones, Mr. Michael Marshall and Mr. Kevin McNamara be members of the Select Committee on Overseas Development.
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Ordered,
That the Members of the Select Committee on Overseas Development nominated this day shall continue to be members of the Committee for the remainder of this Parliament.
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Ordered,
That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.—[Mr. Walter Harrison.]