Women and Equalities Committee

The Women and Equalities Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was established following the 2015 general election to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government Equalities Office on equalities (sex, age, race, sexual orientation, disability and transgender/gender identity) issues.

The committee has faced criticism for its name and in 2017 Conservative MP Philip Davies said it should be renamed the "Equalities Committee".^[1]

Membership[]

As of December 2021, the membership of the committee is as follows:^[2]^[3]

	Party	Constituency
Caroline Nokes MP (Chairman)	Conservative	Romsey and Southampton North
Theo Clarke MP	Conservative	Stafford
Elliot Colburn MP	Conservative	Carshalton and Wallington
Philip Davies MP	Conservative	Shipley
Alex Davie-Jones MP	Labour	Pontypridd
Caroline Dinenage MP	Conservative	Gosport
Jackie Doyle-Price MP	Conservative	Thurrock
Kim Johnson MP	Labour	Liverpool, Riverside
Anne McLaughlin MP	Scottish National Party	Glasgow North East
Kate Osborne MP	Labour	Jarrow
Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP	Labour	Streatham

^ "Tory MP Philip Davies says 'women and equalities committee' should be renamed to remove reference to women". The Independent. 2 February 2017.
^ "Women and Equalities Committee - Membership - Committees - UK Parliament". committees.parliament.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
^ "Committees". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 14 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021. That Lee Anderson be discharged from the Women and Equalities Committee and Caroline Dinenage be added