The Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill
The Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill is appointed
by the House of Commons to consider:
(a) any Petition against the Bill presented by being
deposited in the Private Bill Office at any time not later than
16th September 2005, and
(b) any Petition which has been presented by being
deposited in the Private Bill Office and in which the Petitioners
complain of any amendment as proposed in the filled-up Bill or
of any matter which has arisen during the progress of the Bill
before the Select Committee, being a Petition in which the Petitioners
pray to be heard by themselves, their Counsel or Agents.
That, notwithstanding the practice of the House that
appearances on Petitions against an opposed Private Bill be required
to be entered at the first meeting of the Select Committee on
the Bill, in the case of any such Petitions as are mentioned in
sub-paragraph (a) above on which appearances are not entered at
that meeting, the Select Committee shall appoint a later day on
which it will require appearances on those Petitions to be entered.
That any Petitioner whose Petition stands referred
to the Select Committee shall, subject to the Rules and Orders
of the House and to the Prayer of his Petition, be entitled to
be heard by himself, his Counsel or Agents upon his Petition provided
that it is prepared and signed in conformity with the Rules and
Orders of the House, and the Member in charge of the Bill shall
be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents in favour of
the Bill against that Petition.
That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding
any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place and
to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before
it.
That three be the Quorum of the Select Committee.
Current membership
Mr Alan Meale (Labour, Mansfield) (Chairman)
Mr Brian Binley (Conservative, Northampton South)
Ms Katy Clark (Labour, North Ayrshire and Arran)
Mr Philip Hollobone (Conservative, Kettering)
Kelvin Hopkins (Labour, Luton North)
Mrs Siân C. James (Labour, Swansea East)
Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger (Conservative, Bridgwater)
John Pugh (Liberal Democrats, Southport)
Mrs Linda Riordan (Labour, Halifax)
Sir Peter Soulsby (Labour, Leicester South)
Publications
The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published
by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications
of the Committee are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/crossrail.cfm
Committee staff
The staff of the Committee are Sîan Jones (Clerk)
and Darren Hackett (Committee Assistant).
Contacts
All correspondence should be addressed to Private
Bill Office, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone
number for general enquiries is 020 7219 3250; the Committee's
email address is prbohoc@parliament.uk
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