It would be a committee of the whole house, because this is a constitutional issue.

BBC: Farewell, Lords reform?

Committee stage can also take place on the floor of the Commons - in a committee of the whole House.

BBC: Committee stage

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.

BBC: Week ahead

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.

BBC: Committee stage

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.

BBC: Week ahead

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.

BBC: Week ahead

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.

ECONOMIST: Not so swamped

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.

BBC: Week ahead in committees

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.

BBC: Women in parliament