§ The Chairman of CommitteesMy Lords, I beg to move the third Motion standing in my name on the Order Paper.
As this is the final Motion in the annual series of committee Motions placed before your Lordships' House, and without wishing to divert your Lordships from the usual way in which your Lordships prefer to deal with these Motions—that is to say, largely but not entirely formally—I should like to take the opportunity to thank noble Lords in all parts of your Lordships' House for participating in the work of these committees, which is so vital, and, in particular, I should like to thank the usual channels and the Convenor of the Cross-Bench Peers for the very extensive work which they do in preparation for the placing of these Motions before your Lordships.
The work that they do is time consuming. They do it in a painstaking way. I am the happy recipient of the outcome of the consultations which they undertake. I say that because that work contributes also to the formation of these committees which, through their reports in particular, play such an important part in establishing and enhancing the reputation of your Lordships' House. I think particularly of your Lordships' investigative 604 committees which are among those which I do not chair. That work is valued not just as a unique contribution to the work of Parliament itself, it is valued outside because it makes a contribution to the well-being of the nation as a whole. I beg to move.
Moved, That a Select Committee on the Standing Orders relating to private Bills be appointed and that as proposed by the Committee of Selection the following Lords together with the Chairman of Committees be named of the Committee:
On Question, Motion agreed to.
- V. Falkland,
- L. Gallacher,
- V. Hood,
- E. Lloyd-George of Dwyfor,
- L. Monkswell,
- L. Renton,
- L. Wade of Chorlton.—(The Chairman of Committees.)