It would be a committee of the whole house, because this is a constitutional issue.
Committee stage can also take place on the floor of the Commons - in a committee of the whole House.
Since the second reading and the ensuing committee of the whole house are to take place on Tuesday, this could be a pretty interesting occasion, from a number of points of view.
One rumour is that there could be as many as 25 days (shudder) of committee of the whole house on the bill in the Commons - although Mr Harper insists no such figure has been decided.
In the Lords, committee stage usually takes place in a committee of the whole House or in Grand Committee in the Moses Room, a large room away from the main Chamber, and rarely to other types of committee.
There will be the usual statement from the Leader of the House, Andrew Lansley setting out the Commons agenda for the coming week, and then it's back to the committee of the whole House on the Finance Bill.
There will be no PMQs, so the next business will be a Ten Minute Rule Bill from Labour's Meg Munn to allow schools to register as Co-Ops (Industrial Provident Societies) and then it's on to committee of the whole House consideration of the Finance Bill.
On Monday , MPs convene at 2.30pm for an hour of Education questions, and, assuming no ministerial statements or urgent questions - and an update on the Algerian hostage crisis must be likely - they then turn to the committee of the whole house and third reading of the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill.
It could work only if the majority in this committee mirrored a majority of the whole House of Commons, ie, that the government of the day held a majority because it had sufficient English seats to overcome Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish representation.
First, the Commission chair, Andrew Tyrie has the authority that comes from being elected to chair the Treasury Committee by the whole House of Commons - he's not an executive appointment who can be reined in by the whips.
The public accounts committee has published its verdict on the new Whole of Government Accounts (WGA).
The new regime, whereby members of the committee will be elected by their parties rather than the whole House, was approved by 203 votes to 82, on 12 March 2012.
As Sir David pointed out as he was grilled by members of the Health Select Committee over his handling of the Stafford Hospital scandal, the coming weeks will see the whole structure of the health service redrawn.
Officials, a whole - what do you call a group of officials - a whole row of them, told the committee there'd been a sea change in the way the government gives out grants.
He told the committee that government's objective is to deliver the whole of Crossrail as already proposed, however he said the project has to be "affordable".
It was not until after the Second World War that another milestone was reached - the first woman was nominated at the beginning of the 1946-7 session to the Chairman's Panel which allowed her to preside over a debate of the whole House in committee, which she did on 31 May 1948.
The Government's programme is a bit bogged down at the moment - and you would need the best part of a whole Commons day to ram through the second reading, committee, report and third reading of even a short emergency bill.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said his thoughts and those of the whole Olympic movement were with the victims.
London has seen local authority maintained facilities falling from 486 in 2000 to 401 in 2011, which meant it had "a closure rate twice that of the country as a whole", the Health and Public Services Committee report said.
Wade, this is the first ruling in a whole series of both civil and criminal actions against the officers of this political action committee.
The expectation is that he will in due course regret his choice of words, and the waters will close over the whole issue - at least until his committee has occasion to summon a witness from the Scottish Government.
"I hope that the decision he has made will be to the benefit of the game in Europe as a whole, as he seeks election to UEFA's Executive Committee, " United's co-chairman, Joel Glazer, said.
Moves to extend the length of service to a whole Parliament were defeated by 263 votes to 171, a majority of 92, while the committee will consist of eight members after a move to expand it to 15 members was defeated by 331 votes to 100.
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