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12. Transport

Department of Transport

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13. Treasury and

Civil Service

Treasury, Office of the Minister for the Civil Service, Board of Inland Revenue, Board of Customs and Excise

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14. Welsh Affairs

Welsh Office

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(3) The Foreign Affairs Committee, the Home Affairs Committee and the Treasury and Civil Service Committee shall each have the power to appoint one sub-committee.

(4) There may be a sub-committee, drawn from the membership of two or more of the Energy, Environment, Industry and Trade, Scottish Affairs, Transport and Treasury and Civil Service Committee, set up from time to time to consider any matter affecting two or more nationalised industries.

(5) Select Committees appointed under this Order shall have power

(6)

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(a)

to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjourment 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 report from time to time the minutes of. evidence taken before sub-committees;

(a)

to communicate to any other such committee its evidence and any other document relating to matters of common interest; and

(e)

to meet concurrently with any other such committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft reports;

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, and to adjourn from place to place, and shall have à quorum of

three.

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.