Ecclesiastical Committee

The Ecclesiastical Committee is a statutory joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created by the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 to review Church of England measures submitted to Parliament by the Legislative Committee of the General Synod.

It comprises 30 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Lord Speaker appoints 15 members from the House of Lords, and the Speaker of the House of Commons appoints 15 MPs to serve on the committee.^[1] Members are appointed to serve for the duration of a parliament.

Membership[]

As of July 2021, the membership of the committee is as follows:

House of Commons				House of Lords
MP	Party		Constituency	Peer	Party
Fleur Anderson		Labour	Putney	Baroness Butler-Sloss (Chair)		Crossbench
Sir Peter Bottomley		Conservative	Worthing West	Earl of Cork and Orrery		Crossbench
Ben Bradshaw		Labour	Exeter	Lord Cormack		Conservative
Fiona Bruce		Conservative	Congleton	Baroness Eaton		Conservative
Lisa Cameron		Scottish National	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow	Lord Faulkner of Worcester		Labour
Miriam Cates		Conservative	Penistone and Stocksbridge	Lord Field of Birkenhead		Crossbench
Sir Roger Gale		Conservative	North Thanet	Lord Glenarthur		Conservative
David Lammy		Labour	Tottenham	Baroness Harris of Richmond		Liberal Democrat
Rachael Maskell		Labour Co-op	York Central	Baroness Howarth of Breckland		Crossbench
Gary Sambrook		Conservative	Birmingham Northfield	Lord Jones		Labour
Andrew Selous		Conservative	South West Bedfordshire	Lord Lexden		Conservative
Jim Shannon		Democratic Unionist	Strangford	Lord Lisvane		Crossbench
Sir Desmond Swayne		Conservative	New Forest West	Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall		Labour
Stephen Timms		Labour	East Ham	Lord Plant of Highfield		Labour
Martin Vickers		Conservative	Cleethorpes	Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean		Labour

^ "Ecclesiastical Committee - Role". Parliament.UK. Retrieved 5 March 2021. The Committee is chaired by Baroness Butler-Sloss and has 30 members. 15 members are MPs appointed by Mr. Speaker and 15 members of the House of Lords appointed by the Lord Speaker.