JOINT COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

That this House welcomes the important and wide-ranging report of the Procedure Committee on the select committee system; warmly endorses the conclusion that 'science and technology is too important a matter to be absent from the agenda of the House of Commons'; and invites the Leader of the House to act expeditiously in the current session to give effect to the recommendation in paragraph 285 that a Joint Committee on Science and Technology of both Houses should be established on the basis of the distinguished contribution to public policy now being made by the existing committee of that name in the upper House.