Standing Committee on Regional Affairs (Hansard, 14 January 1999)

HC Deb 14 January 1999 vol 323 c238W 238W

§ Miss Melanie Johnson
To ask the President of the Council what plans she has for the Standing Committee on Regional Affairs. [65972]

§ Mrs. Beckett
The Government have been considering the means of improving the way in which Parliament can debate the affairs of the English regions. I shall shortly be submitting a memorandum to the Modernisation Committee inviting it to examine the possibility of reviving and adapting the Standing Committee on Regional Affairs already allowed for under the Standing Orders of the House.