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Expenditure Committee

Public Accounts Committee

Select Committee on Nationalised Industries

Select Committee on Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration

Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration

Select Committee on Science and Technology

the

"specialist Committees"

Select Committee on Scottish Affairs

The House of Lords has recently established a Select Committee

Sport and Leisure.

4. There are others such as the Select Committee on Procedure

(which rarely requires evidence from officials); that on Statutory

Instruments (guidance on which is given in the "Handbook on

Statutory Instrument Procedure") and those on Privilege, Services,

etc. This note is not intended necessarily to apply to those

Committees. Nor does it deal with the Committees which consider

Private Bills.

5.

Of the Committees listed in para 3, the first four are appointed

every session. The last three the specialist Committees -

are

expected to continue for the remainder of the present Parliament

(subject in the case of Scottish Affairs to any reconsideration made

necessary by constitutional developments). The specialist Committees

each normally set up 2 - 4 sub-committees,

4 aub-committees, as does the Select

Committee on Nationalised Industries.

6. The main change from the previous structure of House of

Commons Committees is the introduction of the Expenditure Committee,

replacing, and expanding the soope of, the Estimate Committee.

The

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