Standing Committee Debates

These are verbatim reports of debates of Standing Committees appointed to consider Bills following their second reading. Standing Committees are lettered `A', `B', `C' etc. and in bound volumes this `alphabetical' arrangement is followed except in the case of Scottish and Welsh debates which are unlettered and are bound at the end of the sessional volumes. Each volume is indexed but there is no general index to the sessional set. It is necessary, therefore, to trace the letter of the Standing Committee which considered a Bill before the report of the debate can be found. This can be done by checking the Stationery Office annual lists where, under the heading House of Commons Parliamentary Debates (in the Parliamentary Papers section) the debates are listed alphabetically by names of the Bills considered, together with the name and letter of the Standing Committee. The Library has Commons debates from 1967/68 onwards and Lords debates from 1970 onwards. The full text of recent Standing Committee debates is available from the UK Parliament Web pages, http://www.parliament.uk.

Shelfmark: Parliamentary Debates (older material in Level 1 Compact Shelving)
Loan Period: Reference only