Resolved, That, for the first part of this day's sitting, Mr Derek Foster do take the Chair of the Committee.—(Mr Barry Sheerman.)

The Committee deliberated.

Report from the Employment Sub-committee [Age Discrimination in Employment], brought up and read.

Ordered, That the Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 29 read and agreed to.

Annex agreed to.

Ordered, That the Minutes of Proceedings of the Employment Sub-committee relating to the Report be annexed to the Report.

Resolved, That the Report be the Seventh Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That the provisions of Standing Order No. 134 (Select Committees (reports)) be applied to the Report.

Several Papers were ordered to be appended to the Minutes of Evidence.

Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Employment Sub-committee be reported to the House.—(The Chairman.)

Several papers were ordered to be reported to the House.