§ 4.27 p.m.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, with leave of the House I should like to make a statement concerning the inquiry into the practice and procedure of administrative tribunals which it was announced in the gracious Speech of June last that the. Government intended to set up. I wish to inform the House that I have to-day appointed a Committee with the following terms of reference—
To consider and make recommendations on:Your Lordships will be glad to hear that Sir Oliver Franks has agreed to be Chairman of the Committee and that three Members of your Lordships' House are members of it—the noble Lord, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the noble Marquess, the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the noble Lord, Lord Silkin. 'The names of the other members of the Committee are Mr. Roderic Bowen, Member of Parliament for Cardigan, Mr. J. C. Burman, 143 Dame Florence Hancock, Mr. Douglas Johnston, Member of Parliament for Paisley, Sir Geoffrey Stuart King, Major John Morrison, Member of Parliament for Salisbury, Miss K. M. Oswald, Lord Justice Parker, Mr. H. Wentworth Pritchard, the Honourable Charles Russell, Mr. Alan Symons and Professor Kenneth Wheare. The Secretary of the Committee is Mr. J. Littlewood of Her Majesty's Treasury.
- (a) The constitution and working of tribunals other than the ordinary courts of law, constituted under any Act of Parliament by a Minister of the Crown or for the purposes of a Minister's functions.
- (b) The working of such administrative procedures as include the holding of an inquiry or hearing by or on behalf of a Minister on an appeal or as the result of objections or representations, and in particular the procedure for the compulsory purchase of land."