select committee

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

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2025 October 22, Jessica Elgot, “MPs ‘pushing hard’ to launch inquiry into Prince Andrew’s Royal Lodge residence”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

• “select committee” (US) / “select committee” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “select committee”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “select committee”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “select committee”, in Collins English Dictionary.