HC Deb 16 July 2001 vol 372 cc88-9

Ordered,

That a Select Committee of fifteen Members be appointed to consider how the practices and procedures of the House should be modernised, and to make recommendations thereon;

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; to report from time to time and to appoint specialist advisers;

That Mrs. Angela Browning, Ann Coffey, Mr. Robin Cook, Mrs. Lorna Fitzsimons, Barbara Follett, Helen Jackson, Julie Morgan, Mr. Peter Pike, Joan Ruddock, Mr. Martin Salter, Mr. Richard Shepherd, Mr. Andrew Stunell, Mr. Paul Tyler and Mr. Nicholas Winterton be members of the Committee;

That this Order be a Standing Order of the House until the end of the present Parliament.—[Mr. Robin Cook.]

Ordered,