§ Mr. Eggarasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many departmental committees of inquiry he and his predecessors, including Secretaries of State for Economic Affairs, have commissioned since 1955; and what were 142W the subjects the committees investigated, the dates they were established, who chaired them and the dates they reported.
§ Mr. HayhoeI refer my hon. Friend to appendices B and C of "Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees in Britain—a Case-Study in Institutional Adaptiveness and Public Participation in Government" by T J Cartwright, a copy of which is held by the House Library. These appendices list major post-war Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees between 1945 and 1974, the reports of which were published as command papers. I regret that a separate listing for the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Departments, to include any such Committees the reports of which were not published as command papers and to extend the list beyond 1974, could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.