HL Deb 22 June 2004 vol 662 c1234

A message was brought from the Commons that they concur with the Lords that it is expedient that a Joint Committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to consider and report on the Government's response to Recommendations 79, 80, 81, 83, 84 and 85 of the report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Gambling Bill (Cm. 6253), which focus upon the definition, location and economic and other implications of the largest casinos, and on the further statement of Government policy on casinos published with Cm. 6253, and have ordered:

That a Select Committee of eight honourable Members be appointed to join with the committee appointed by the Lords for this purpose.

That the committee shall have power—

  1. (i) to send for persons, papers and records;
  2. (ii) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House;
  3. (iii) to report from time to time;
  4. (iv) to appoint specialist advisers;
  5. (v) to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom; and

That the committee shall report by 22 July 2004;

And that the committee do meet with the committee appointed by the Lords on Wednesday 23 June at half-past nine o'clock in Committee Room 8 as proposed by the Lords.

House adjourned at eighteen minutes past ten o' clock.