European Communities Committee: Select Committee

HL Deb 30 June 1987 vol 488 cc126-7

3.2 p.m.

The Chairman of Committees (Lord Aberdare)

My Lords, I beg to move the Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.

I should perhaps mention that the Committee of Selection agreed at a later date to add the name of a Member of the Liberal Party to this Committee to replace the noble Baroness, Lady Robson, who retires under the rotation rule.

Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider Community proposals whether in draft or otherwise, to obtain all necessary information about them, and to make reports on those which, in the opinion of the Committee, raise important questions of policy or principle, and on other questions to which the Committee consider that the special attention of the House should be drawn;

That, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the Lords following be named of the Committee:—

• Allen of Abbeydale, L.
• Attlee, E.
• Bancroft, L.
• Broxbourne, L.
• Carnegy of Lour, B.
• Cranbrook, E.
• De La Warr, E.
• Ewart-Biggs, B.
• Gallacher, L.
• Goff of Chieveley, L.
• Greenhill of Harrow, L.
• Kearton, L.
• Lucas of Chilworth, L.
• Middleton, L.
• Murray of Epping Forest, L.
• Nathan, L.
• Nicol, B.
• Rodney, L.
• Seebohm, L.
• Serota, B.(Chairman)
• Shannon, E.
• Walston, L.
• Wilson of Langside, L.
• Young, B.

That the Committee have power to appoint Sub-Committees and to refer to such Sub-Committees any of the matters within the terms of reference of the Committee; that the Committee have power to appoint the Chairmen of Sub-Committees, but that such Sub-Committees have power to appoint their own Chairman for the purpose of particular inquiries; that two be the quorum of such Sub-Committees;

That the Committee have power to co-opt any Lord for the purpose of serving on a Sub-Committee;

That the Committee and any Sub-Committees have power to adjourn from place to place;

That the Committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;

That the Committee have leave to report from time to time;

That the Reports of the Select Committee from time to time shall be printed, notwithstanding any adjournment of the House;

That the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee or any Sub-Committee from time to time shall, if the Committee think fit be printed and delivered out;

That the Committee or any Sub-Committee appointed by them have leave to confer and to meet concurrently with any Committee of the Commons on European Legislation &c. or any Sub-Committee of that Committee for the purpose of deliberating and of examining witnesses; and have leave to agree with the Commons in the appointment of a Chairman for any such meeting.—(The Chairman of Committees.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.