HC Deb 18 November 1981 vol 13 c396

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to give further consideration to the desirability and possible method of conducting reviews of Members' salaries by an independent body once during the first Session of each Parliament and of adjusting such salaries during the periods between such reviews by reference to increases in the remuneration of a designated group of outside occupations, and to make recommendations to the House.

Ordered, That Mr. Joe Ashton, Mr. Hugh D. Brown, Sir Walter Clegg, Mr. George Cunningham, Mr. Joe Dean, Mr. Paul Dean, Mr. Marcus Fox, Mr. James Lamond, Mr. Michael Shaw. Mr. Martin Stevens, Mr. Mike Thomas, Mr. Peter Thomas, Mr. Stan Thorne, Sir William van Straubenzee and Mr. Mark Wolfson be members of the Committee.

Ordered, That Five be the quorum of the Committee.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, and to report from time to time.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to appoint persons with technical knowledge either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference.—[Mr. Boscawen.]