Estimates

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 October 1947.

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Select Committee appointed to examine such of the Estimates presented to this House as may seem fit to the Committee, and to suggest the form in which the Estimates shall be presented for examination, and to report what, if any, economies consistent with the policy implied in those Estimates may be effected therein:

Committee to consist of Twenty-eight Members:

Mr. Alexander Anderson, Mr. Barton, Mr. Champion, Mr. Geoffrey Cooper, Mr. Corlett, Mr. Cuthbert, Viscountess Davidson, Mr. Edward Davies, Sir Ralph Glyn, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Mr. Howard, Mr. H. D. Hughes, Wing-Commander Hulbert, Colonel James Hutchison, Mr. Kirby, Mr. Low, Sir Peter Macdonald, Mr. Niall Macpherson, Mrs. Leah Manning, Mr. Monslow, Mr. Parkin, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Wilfrid Roberts, Mr. Norman Smith, Mr. William Wells, Mr. West, Mr. Frederick Willey and Mr. Willis to be Members of the Committee:

Seven to be the Quorum:

Power 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:

Power to appoint Sub-Committees and to refer to such Sub-Commitees any of the matters referred to the Committee:

Four to be the Quorum of every such Sub-Committee:

Every such Sub-Committee to have power to send for persons, papers and records; to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House; and to adjourn from place to place:

Power to report from time to time Minutes of Evidence taken before Subcommittees.—[Mr. R. J. Taylor.]

Adjournment of the House

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The House adjourns at the end of each day's business.

On a daily basis the House adjourns, or breaks, half an hour after the moving of the adjournment debate.

The House is also adjourned for several holiday periods during the session.

The more lengthy adjournments - often coinciding with the academic calendar - are known as recesses.