Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms (House of Commons).

– in the House of Commons at on 5 December 1939.

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Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to control the arrangements for the Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms in the department of the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this House:

Ordered, That the Committee do consist of Seventeen Members:

Committee accordingly nominated of Sir Ernest Bennett, Sir Reginald Blair, Captain Sir William Brass, Miss Cazalet, Sir James Edmondson, Sir Henry Fildes, Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle, Mr. Horabin, Mr. Leonard, Mr. Liddall, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore, Mr. R. C. Morrison, Mr. Muff, Sir Assheton Pownall, Mr. Bracewell Smith, Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward and Miss Wilkinson.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records:

Ordered, That Three be the quorum.—[Mr. Munro.]

The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.

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