The Committee has power:

(a)  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;

(b)  to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the Committee's order of reference;

(c)  to communicate to any committee appointed under the same Standing Order and to the European Scrutiny Committee, to the Committee of Public Accounts, to the Deregulation Committee and to the Environmental Audit Committee its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and

(d)  to meet concurrently with any other such committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft reports, or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof the the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence:

  The Committee has power to appoint two sub-committees, to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before them and to lay upon the Table of the House the minutes of their proceedings. The sub-committees have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, to report from time to time the minutes of their proceedings, and to meet concurrently with any committee appointed under the same Standing Order or any sub-committee thereof, or with the European Scrutiny Committee or any sub-committee thereof, for the purposes of deliberating or taking evidence. They have a quorum of three.