Select Committee on Procedure First Special Report



Standing Order No. 147

(1) There shall be a select committee, to be called the Procedure Committee, to consider the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of public business, and to make recommendations.

(2) The committee shall consist of not more than seventeen Members.

(3) The quorum of the committee shall be five.

(4) The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place and to report from time to time.

(5) Unless the House otherwise orders, each Member nominated to the committee shall continue to be a member of it for the remainder of the Parliament.

  

Thursday 31 July 1997

The following were nominated as members of the Procedure Committee:


Sir Paul Beresford Mr Eric Illsley
Mr Keith DarvillChris McCafferty
Mr David DrewHelen Southworth
Mr Clive EffordMr Paul Stinchcombe
Lorna FitzsimonsMr Andrew Stunell
Mr Barry GardinerMr Paul Tyler
Mr Damian GreenMr Nicholas Winterton


Tuesday 28 October 1997

Mr Nicholas Winterton was called to the Chair.

Friday 7 November 1997

Mr Paul Tyler discharged; Mr Edward Davey added.


 
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