Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
The Energy and Climate Change Select Committee was a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that came into existence on 1 January 2009.
Formation[]
The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on October 28, 2008,[1] following the establishment of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 3 October 2008. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the department, and any departmental bodies.
Membership[]
The membership of the Committee, appointed in July 2015, was as follows:
Member | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|
Angus MacNeil MP (Chair) | Scottish National Party | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | |
Alistair Carmichael MP | Liberal Democrat | Orkney and Shetland | |
Glyn Davies MP | Conservative | Montgomeryshire | |
James Heappey MP | Conservative | Wells | |
Ian Lavery MP | Labour | Wansbeck | |
Melanie Onn MP | Labour | Great Grimsby | |
Matthew Pennycook MP | Labour | Greenwich and Woolwich | |
Dan Poulter MP | Conservative | Central Suffolk & North Ipswich | |
Antoinette Sandbach MP | Conservative | Eddisbury | |
Julian Sturdy MP | Conservative | York Outer | |
Dr Alan Whitehead MP | Labour | Southampton Test |
Source: Energy and Climate Change Committee
Changes[]
Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below.
Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2 November 2010 | Gemma Doyle MP (Labour Co-op) | West Dunbartonshire | → | Barry Gardiner MP (Labour) | Brent North | Hansard | ||
Tom Greatrex MP (Labour Co-op) | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Ian Lavery MP (Labour) | Wansbeck | |||||
5 November 2012 | Laura Sandys MP (Conservative) | South Thanet | → | Peter Lilley MP (Conservative) | Hitchin and Harpenden | Hansard |
References[]
External links[]
- Department of Energy and Climate Change
- Defunct Select Committees of the British House of Commons