Talk:Robin Maxwell-Hyslop

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Trade and Industry Select Committee[edit]

Tam Dalyell's obituary avers that Robin Maxwell-Hyslop was the longest-ever serving member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee, from 1971 to 1992. Doubt it, as the departmental select committees were not established until 1979. Sam Blacketer (talk) 00:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Departmental select committees (as well as subject based committees) were introduced by Richard Crossman (for whom Tam Dalyell was PPS) during the 1966-70 Parliament. The following government under Heath amended this system, introducing an Expenditure Committee with six subcommittees in 1971. One of these was the Trade & Industry Committee on which Maxwell-Hyslop served from its inception. During the dying years of Jim Callaghan's Labour government the Procedure Committee held a long investigation which eventually recommended a new departmental select committee system shortly before the 1979 general election. This proposal was inherited by the incoming Thatcher government and implemented by her first Leader of the House of Commons Norman St John Stevas. Maxwell-Hyslop duly became a member of the new Trade & Industry Committee created at the end of 1979. The new system began to operate at the start of 1980. I shall amend the entry to clarify that Maxwell-Hyslop served from 1971 to 1992 on a Trade & Industry Committee whose structure was amended in 1979. Oafc1990 (talk) 15:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Family?[edit]

Do we know who were his wife and children? The Maxwell-Hyslops seem to have been quite an illustrious family. Valetude (talk) 01:35, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]