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(1) Select Committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments as set out in paragraph (2) of this Order and associated public bodies.
(2) The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this Order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned and the maximum numbers of each committee shall be as follows:
|
Name of Committee |
Principal government departments concerned |
Maximum members |
|
|
1. |
Constitutional Affairs |
Department for Constitutional Affairs (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments, and excluding the work of the Scotland and Wales Offices and of the Advocate General for Scotland) |
11 |
|
2. |
Culture, Media and Sport |
Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
11 |
|
3. |
Defence |
Ministry of Defence |
14 |
|
4. |
Education and Skills |
Department for Education and Skills |
11 |
|
5. |
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
14 |
|
6. |
Foreign Affairs |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
14 |
|
7. |
Health |
Department of Health |
11 |
|
8. |
Home Affairs |
Home Office; and administration and expenditure of the Attorney General's Office, the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office (but excluding individual cases and appointments and advice given within government by Law Officers) |
14 |
|
9. |
International Development |
Department for International Development |
11 |
|
10. |
Northern Ireland Affairs |
Northern Ireland Office; administration and expenditure of the Crown Solicitor's Office (but excluding individual cases and advice given by the Crown Solicitor); and other matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (but excluding the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland and the drafting of legislation by the Office of the Legislative Counsel). |
13 |
|
11. |
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions |
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister |
11 |
|
12. |
Science and Technology |
Office of Science and Technology |
11 |
|
13. |
Scottish Affairs |
Scotland Office (including (i) relations with the Scottish Parliament and (ii) administration and expenditure of the offices of the Advocate General for Scotland (but excluding individual cases and advice given within government by the Advocate General)) |
11 |
|
14. |
Trade and Industry |
Department of Trade and Industry (but excluding the Office of Science and Technology) |
14 |
|
15. |
Transport |
Department for Transport |
11 |
|
16. |
Treasury |
Treasury, HM Revenue and Customs |
14 |
|
17. |
Welsh Affairs |
Wales Office (including relations with the National Assembly for Wales ) |
11 |
|
18. |
Work and Pensions |
Department for Work and Pensions |
11 |
(3) Each Select Committee appointed under this order shall have the power to appoint a sub-committee.
(4) Select Committees 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; and
(c) to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before sub-committees, and to lay upon the Table of the House the minutes of the proceedings of sub-committees;
and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings, and shall have a quorum of three.
(5) 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.
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