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SECOND REPORT FROM

The Foreign Affairs Committee is appointed under SO No 130 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and of associated public bodies.

The Committee consists of 11 Members. It has a quorum of three. Unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to the Committee continue to be members of it for the remainder of the Parliament.

The Committee has 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;

(c) to communicate to any other such committee, its evidence and any other documents

relating to matters of common interest; and

(d) to meet concurrently with any such other committee for the purposes of deliberating,

taking evidence, or considering draft reports.

The Committee has power to appoint one sub-committee and to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before it. The sub-committee has power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to adjourn from place to place. It has a quorum of three.

The membership of the Committee since its appointment on 2 December 1987 is as follows:

Rt Hon David Howell, Guildford (Chairman)

Mr Dennis Canavan, Falkirk W

Rt Hon Michael Jopling, Westmorland

and Lonsdale

Mr Ivan Lawrence, QC, Burton

Mr Jim Lester, Broxtowe

Mr Ted Rowlands, Merthyr Tydfil

and Rhymney

Rt Hon Peter Shore, Bethnal Green

and Stepney

Mr Ian Taylor, MBE, Esher

Mr Peter Temple-Morris, Leominster Mr Bowen Wells, Hertford and Stortford

Mr Mick Welsh, Doncaster N

The cost of printing and publishing this Report is estimated by Her Majesty's Stationery Office at £8,122. The cost of preparing for publication the Shorthand Minutes taken before the Foreign Affairs Committee relating to this Report was £4,980.35.