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Ordered,
That a Select Committee be appointed to consider what alterations, if any, are desirable for the more efficient despatch of the Public Business of the House in relation to European subordinate legislation, &c., recommended by any Committee on that subject for further consideration by the House; to consider the possibility of restricting the length of speeches; to consider what changes may be necessary in Standing Orders to empower Mr. Speaker to call more than one Amendment for Division at the end of any debate on a Motion; and to consider how the number of late Sittings of the House might be reduced; and to report on those matters.
The Committee was nominated of Miss Betty Harvie Anderson, Mr. John Biffen, Mr. Ronald Brown, Mr. Walter Clegg, Mr. A. P. Costain, Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg, Mr. Harry Gourlay, Mr. Sydney Irving, Mrs. Lena Jeger, Dr. Edmund Marshall, Mr. John Mendelsohn, Dr. Phipps, Mr. J. Enoch Powell, Mr. Cyril Smith, and Mr. Nigel Spearing.
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Ordered,
That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records; and to report from time to time:
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Ordered,
That Four be the Quorum of the Committee. —[Mr. Walter Harrison.]