ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
Standing Order No. 142
(1) There shall be four Select Committees to
consider the services provided for the House in regard to the
following matters:
1. Accommodation and Works
2. Administration
3. Catering
4. Information
(2) Each committee appointed under this order
shall consist of nine Members, and the quorum shall be three.
(3) Each committee appointed under this order
shall have the assistance of the Officers of the House appropriate
to the matters under consideration.
(4) Each committee appointed under this order
shall have power-
(a) 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;
(b) to appoint specialist advisers either to
supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate
matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference;
(c) to communicate to any other such committee,
or to the Finance and Services Committee appointed under Standing
Order No. 144, or to the Broadcasting Committee appointed under
Standing Order No. 139, or to the House of Commons Commission,
its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common
interest; and
(d) to meet concurrently with any other such
committee, or with the Finance and Services Committee, or with
the Broadcasting Committee, for the purpose of deliberating or
taking evidence.
(5) Each committee appointed under this order
shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the
Lords on House of Lords Offices or any sub-committee of that committee,
for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate
to any such committee or sub-committee its evidence or any other
documents relating to matters of common interest.
(6) Each committee appointed under this order
shall have power to make recommendations to the House of Commons
Commission or to the Speaker; but any such recommendation whose
implementation would incur additional expenditure from the Votes
for House of Commons (Administration) or (Works) shall also be
considered by the Finance and Services Committee.
(7) Each committee appointed under this order
shall have power to make rules and give directions to Officers
of the House in respect only of such administrative matters as
may from time to time be determined by the Speaker or by the House
of Commons Commission.
(8) Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members
nominated to a committee appointed under this order shall continue
to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.
MEMBERSHIP
The Administration Committee was appointed on 28
July 1997. Its membership since then has been as follows:
Mrs Marion Roe (Chairman) (Broxbourne)
|
Mr James Cran (Beverley and Holderness) | Mr
Stephen Hepburn (Jarrow) |
| (discharged 22.6.98) | Mrs Jane Kennedy (Liverpool
Wavertree) |
| Mr David Crausby (Bolton North East) | Dr
Nick Palmer (Broxtowe) (added 8.12.97) |
| Mr Hilton Dawson (Lancaster and Wyre) | Mr
William Ross (Londonderry East) |
| Mr Fabian Hamilton (Leeds North East) | Mr Oliver Heald (Hertfordshire North East) |
| (added 22.6.98) | |
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