division_name: Business of the House &#8212; Regional Select Committees
motion: <p class="italic" pid="c.851.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"> Motion made, and Question proposed,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That the following new Standing Order and amendment to temporary Standing Orders be made, with effect from 1st January 2009 until the end of the current Parliament&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indentitalic" pid="c.851.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes"> A. New Standing Order</p>
  
  <p class="indentitalic" pid="c.851.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes"> Regional select committees</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(1) Select committees shall be appointed to examine regional strategies and the work of regional bodies for each of the following English regions:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) East Midlands</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) East of England</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">(c) North East</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">(d) North West</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">(e) South East</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">(f) South West</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">(g) West Midlands</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">(h) Yorkshire and the Humber.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/14" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) Each committee appointed under this order shall consist of not more than nine members; and, unless the House otherwise orders, all Members nominated to a committee shall continue to be members of that committee for the remainder of the Parliament.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/15" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) A committee appointed under this order shall have power&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/16" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn to any place within the United Kingdom, and to report from time to time;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/17" pwmotiontext="yes">(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;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/18" pwmotiontext="yes">(c) to invite&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/19" pwmotiontext="yes">(i) Members of the House who are not members of the committee but represent constituencies within the region in respect of which it is appointed, and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/20" pwmotiontext="yes">(ii) specified elected councillors from the region in respect of which it is appointed</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/21" pwmotiontext="yes">to attend and participate in its proceedings at specified meetings (but not to move motions or amendments, vote or be counted in the quorum).</p>
  
  <p class="indentitalic" pid="c.851.1/22" pwmotiontext="yes"> B. Amendment to Temporary Standing Order of 13th July 2005:</p>
  
  <p class="indentitalic" pid="c.851.1/23" pwmotiontext="yes"> Liaison Committee (Membership)</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/24" pwmotiontext="yes">At end add&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/25" pwmotiontext="yes">(4) In addition to the members appointed under paragraphs (2) and (3) of this order, one Member who is for the time being the Chairman of a Regional Select Committee shall be a member of the Liaison Committee.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/26" pwmotiontext="yes">(5) The question on a motion in the names of the chairmen of all the Regional Select Committees to nominate a member of the Liaison Committee under paragraph (4) shall be put forthwith and may be decided after the moment of interruption.&#8212;<i> [Chris Bryant.]</i></p>
  
  <p pid="c.851.1/27" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Amendment proposed, </i>(b), in line 18, after 'members', insert</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.851.1/28" pwmotiontext="yes">'who represent constituencies within the relevant region'.&#8212;<i> [Simon Hughes.]</i></p>
  
  <p pid="c.851.1/29" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> Question put, </i>That the amendment be made:&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="c.851.1/30" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 90, Noes 235.</p>