HC Deb 16 March 1984 vol 56 cc678-9

Ordered, That a select committee of not more than seventeen Members be appointed to consider—

  1. (i) procedure on public Bills in standing committees, with particular regard to the allocation of time therein,
  2. (ii) the application of time limits on speeches in the House;
and any matters of procedure in the conduct of public business, as it may determine.

That five be the quorum of the Committee.

That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report from time to time.

That these Orders be Standing Orders of the House until the end of the Parliament.—[Mr. Sainsbury.]