§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Aberdare)My Lords, I beg to move the first Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
§ 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 considers that the special attention of the House should be drawn;
§ That as proposed by the Committee of Selection the following Lords be named of the committee —
- Aldington, L.
- Brain, L.
- Bridges, L.
- Bruce of Donington, L.
- David, B.
- Elles, B.
- Ezra, L.
- Greenhill of Harrow, L.
- Hunter of Newington, L.
- Lockwood, B.
- Lucas of Chilworth, L.
- Mackay of Ardbrecknish, L.
- Nathan, L.
- Oliver of Aylmerton, L.
- Pearson of Rannoch, L.
- Robson of Kiddington, B.
- Selborne, E.
- Serota, B. (Chairman)
- Shepherd, L.
- Somerset, D.
- Stedman, B.
- Thurlow, L.
- Varley, 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 subcommittees have power to appoint their own chairman for the purpose of particular inquiries; that two be the quorum of 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-committee 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 committee from time to time 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 be printed and delivered out if the committee thinks fit. —(The Chairman of Committees.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.