Legal Definition and Related Resources of Committee of the Whole House

A parliamentary committee consisting of the whole House of Commons, sitting without the Speaker in the Chair, to consider Bills which have been read a second time preparatory to reporting them to the House proper. The Committee of Ways and Means and the Committee of Supply are committees of the whole House for considering the raising of revenue and its allocation respectively

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English Legal System: Committee of The Whole House

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Committee of The Whole House : A committee of which all members of the House of Commons or the House of Lords are members. In the Lords it sits for the committee stage of all public Bills. In the Commons the committee stage is normally taken by a *standing committee, but major Bills (particularly if controversial) are sometimes referred instead to a whole House committee. Certain matters concerning expenditure and taxation were formerly considered by the whole House sitting as the Committee of Supply or the Committee of Ways and Means, but since 1967 they have been dealt with by the House sitting as such.