Although Select committees have been used by the House of Commons for centuries for a range of different purposes involving the gathering of information and the publication of reports, the present system of a set of Committees each of which is tasked with monitoring the business of a different government department was established as recently as 1979.

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支持和反对（重新）武装议会的案例

尽管下议院几个世纪以来一直使用特选委员会来实现一系列不同的目的，包括收集信息和发布报告，但目前由一组委员会组成的系统，每个委员会的任务都是监督不同部门的业务。政府部门最近于 1979 年成立。