In the Second Report of last Session of the Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons, published in April 1999, it was recommended that for Session 1999-2000 there should be an experiment with a parallel Chamber, known as "Westminster Hall". Westminster Hall was envisaged as a forum for private members; select committees; and non-controversial business agreed through the usual channels which at present finds no place in the time of the House. The report concludes that Westminster Hall has not enabled the Government to expand its legislative programme. It was concluded that the business taken in Westminster Hall has been additional business, which would otherwise not have taken place at all. The report stresses that as a result of alterations made the Westminster Hall is now a meeting place of which the House can be proud. The report recommends that the experiment with sittings in Westminster Hall should be continued until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament.