division_name: Exiting the European Union (Agriculture) &#8212; Foreign Affairs Committee
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a980.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That Ian Austin and Mike Gapes be discharged from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Conor McGinn and Catherine West be added.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a980.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Select Committees have been strengthened&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a980.6/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;which allowed their members to be elected by their fellow MPs&#8212;and Chairs by the whole House of Commons&#8212;rather than appointed by the patronage of party whips. As a result, members are more likely to have relevant experience and genuine interest in the work of their Committees&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a992.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I thank the Leader of the House for giving way. Before he completes his contribution, will he say what thought he has given to the Liaison Committee report &#8216;Shifting the Balance&#8217;, which is about the future appointment of Select Committees and appointments to vacancies that might occur in this Parliament? Does he accept its recommendation that those should be taken out of the power of the Whips Offices of all parties?&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-06-16">16 June</phrase> 2001; Vol. 372, c. 45.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a992.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;past its sell-by date.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-06-16">16 June</phrase> 2001; Vol. 372, c. 40.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a992.2/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There is a message to my right hon. Friend. The Government might get away tonight with sacking two hon. Members who should be members of Select Committees, and they might think little of it, but in the last Parliament, and in this Parliament, sadly, they continue to present an image of what they are like which, I am sure, is totally inaccurate. The image suggests that they believe that one can ride roughshod, and grab and take anything. The impression of a belief that we rule, no matter what people say, is being marked down on our card outside. When we are in difficult times, we will find, like the shambles of the Conservative party, that it is too late to reform. The electorate will have marked our card indelibly, and when the moment comes, retribution will be visited upon us.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2019-06-16">16 June</phrase> 2001; Vol. 372, c. 61.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a995.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Ian Austin and Mike Gapes be discharged from the Foreign Affairs Committee&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a998.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Then they came for me&#8212;and there was no one left&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a1011.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a1011.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 199, Noes 134.</p>