Increase select committee members to 16 MPs, group urges

While lauding the formation of 10 parliamentary special select committees (PSSCs) at Parliament, a group urged the government to increase the composition of MPs in each committee to a maximum of 16 people.

“Currently, each committee would only have nine members. It is a waste as it fails to fully utilise backbenchers and opposition MPs.

“There are 67 MPs who have no roles because they are not members of any special select committee or Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...