Science and Technology: Select Committee (Hansard, 8 December 1998)

§ The Chairman of Committees (Lord Boston of Faversham)

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

Moved, That a Select Committee be appointed to consider science and technology and that, as proposed by the Committee of Selection, the following Lords be named of the Select Committee:

L. Birdwood,
L. Haskel,
B. Hogg,
L. Howie of Troon,
L. Jenkin of Roding,
L. Kirkwood,
L. Nathan,
L. Perry of Walton,
L. Phillips of Ellesmere,
B. Platt of Writtle,
L. Porter of Luddenham,
L. Ponsonby of Shulbrede,
L. Rea,
L. Soulsby of Swaffham Prior,
L. Tombs,
L. Walton of Detchant,
L. Winston (Chairman);

That the Committee have power to appoint sub-committees and that the Committee have power to appoint the Chairmen of sub-committees;

That the Committee have power to co-opt any Lord for the purposes of serving on the Committee or any sub-committee;

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

That the Committee and any sub-committee have power to adjourn from place to place;

That the Committee and any sub-committee have power to appoint specialist advisers;

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; and

That the Committee do meet on Tuesday 15th December at a quarter before eleven o'clock.—(The Chairman of Committees.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.