Message from the Commons

A message was brought from the Commons that they concur that it is expedient that a Joint Committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to consider the Green Paper on Parliamentary Privilege presented to both Houses on 26 April (Cm 8318), and that they have ordered:

that a Select Committee of six Members be appointed to join with the Committee appointed by the Lords;

that the Committee should report by 25 April 2013; and

that the Committee shall have power

(i) to send for persons, papers and records,

(ii) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House,

(iii) to report from time to time,

(iv) to appoint specialist advisers, and

(v) to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom.

House adjourned at 9.58 pm.