Departmental Select Committees (Hansard, 27 April 2004)

HC Deb 27 April 2004 vol 420 c887W 887W

§ 37. Mr. Llwyd
To ask the Leader of the House if he will make a statement on the representation of minority parties on departmental select committees. [168421]

§ Mr. Woolas
My right hon. Friend is fully aware that the minority parties have concerns about their representation on select committees. The Government have taken action to address this in a number of ways, by accommodating their interests in the nomination of recent Joint Committees for pre-legislative scrutiny and Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation, for example.