Scottish Affairs Select Committee
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The Scottish Affairs Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland (and prior to that, the Scottish Office), and relations with the Scottish Parliament. It also looks at the administration and expenditure of the Advocate General for Scotland.[1]
Unlike the Scottish Grand Committee, MPs from constituencies outside Scotland can, and do, sit on the Scottish Affairs Committee.
Membership[]
Following the 2019 general election, the House of Commons appointed the members of the Scottish Affairs committee on 4 May 2020. As of July 2020 the membership is as follows:[2]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pete Wishart MP (Chair) | Scottish National Party | Perth & North Perthshire | |
| Mhairi Black MP | Scottish National Party | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | |
| Deidre Brock MP | Scottish National Party | Edinburgh North and Leith | |
| Andrew Bowie MP | Conservative | West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | |
| Alberto Costa MP | Conservative | South Leicestershire | |
| Douglas Ross MP | Conservative | Moray | |
| Sally-Ann Hart MP | Conservative | Hastings and Rye | |
| John Lamont MP | Conservative | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | |
| Jon Cruddas MP | Labour | Dagenham and Rainham | |
| Liz Twist MP | Labour | Blaydon | |
| Wendy Chamberlain MP | Liberal Democrats | North East Fife | |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 November 2010 | Mark Menzies MP (Conservative) | Fylde | → | Mike Freer MP (Conservative) | Finchley and Golders Green | Hansard | ||
| Julian Smith MP (Conservative) | Skipton and Ripon | Simon Reevell MP (Conservative) | Dewsbury | |||||
| 25 October 2011 | Cathy Jamieson MP (Labour) | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | → | Iain McKenzie MP (Labour) | Inverclyde | Hansard | ||
| Fiona O'Donnell MP (Labour) | East Lothian | Graeme Morrice MP (Labour) | Livingston | |||||
| 23 January 2012 | Graeme Morrice MP (Labour) | Livingston | → | Pamela Nash MP (Labour) | Airdrie and Shotts | Hansard | ||
| 5 November 2012 | David Mowat MP (Conservative) | Warrington South | → | Michael Crockart MP (Liberal Democrat) | Edinburgh West | Hansard | ||
| 28 January 2013 | Fiona Bruce MP (Conservative) | Congleton | → | Eleanor Laing MP (Conservative) | Epping Forest | Hansard | ||
| Iain McKenzie MP (Labour) | Inverclyde | → | Graeme Morrice MP (Labour) | Livingston | ||||
| 4 February 2013 | Mike Freer MP (Conservative) | Finchley and Golders Green | → | Sir James Paice MP (Conservative) | South East Cambridgeshire | Hansard | ||
List of chairs[]
| Member | First elected | Method | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vacant [3] | June 1987 | ||
| William McKelvey[3] | 15 July 1992 | Elected by the Select Committee | |
| Irene Adams | 14 July 1997 | Elected by the Select Committee | |
| Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar | 13 July 2005 | Elected by the Select Committee | |
| Ian Davidson[4] | 10 June 2010 | Elected by the House of Commons (uncontested) | |
| Pete Wishart[5] | 10 June 2015 | Elected by the House of Commons (uncontested) | |
See also[]
- Parliamentary Committees of the United Kingdom
References[]
- ^ UK Parliament - Scottish Affairs Select Committee Home Page
- ^ "Scottish Affairs Committee - Membershi". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ a b "House of Commons - Liaison Committee - First Report". UK Parliament. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Winning candidates for select committee Chairs announced". UK Parliament. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^ "Results of elections for select committee chairs announced". UK Parliament. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
External links[]
- Records of the Scottish Affairs Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives
- Scottish Affairs Committee
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