select committee

plural select committees

1. A committee made up of a number of parliamentary or legislative members appointed to deal with particular areas or issues beyond the authority or capacity of a standing committee.

   It now goes to the Lords Committee stage - a select committee will be appointed to consider 35 petitions once the new Parliamentary session gets underway.

   2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 9

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   In 1864 a Joint Select Committee of both houses of Parliament came out in favour of an 'inner circuit', a loop joining the main line termini in the north with those that were emerging to the south in the early 1860s: Victoria, Charing Cross and Cannon Street.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 48

   His spokesperson did not deny that Starmer was endorsing the idea of a select committee examining Royal Lodge. “It’s important that there’s proper scrutiny when the scrutiny is needed,” they said.

   2025 October 22, Jessica Elgot, “MPs ‘pushing hard’ to launch inquiry into Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN