Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Gordon Prentice (Labour), on Tuesday, 7 March 2000, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 244 members in total.

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SELECT COMMITTEES AND THE EXECUTIVE

That this House warmly welcomes the first report of the Liaison Committee, published on 2nd March, which observes that the membership of select committees is effectively under the control of the Whips and that this has led on occasion to long delays in setting up committees at the start of a parliament and in replacing members thereafter and that members have been kept off committees because of their views; agrees that this is wrong in principle; and believes the implementation of the report's recommendations would strengthen parliamentary scrutiny of the Executive to the positive benefit of both.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

476 

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Membership Members Select committees Whips

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk