Select Committees (Conduct of Chairmen)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:35 pm on 6 March 1984.

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Photo of Mr Dale Campbell-Savours Mr Dale Campbell-Savours , Workington 3:35, 6 March 1984

Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I waited for my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) to raise his point of order because he raises a matter which is of importance to the House—can chairmen of Select Committees go on television or the radio and issue public statements about matters which their Committees are considering in private? If that is the position, is it also in order for members of those Select Committees to have the right to go on television and radio and make similar statements? If that is the case, it means that members of the Select Committee on Members' Interests, which is currently examining the declaration of interest by the Prime Minister, are free to make public statements. I believe that the House requires a ruling on that matter.