Health Select Committee

The Health Select Committee is one of the Select Committees of the British House of Commons. It oversees the operations of the Department of Health and its associated bodies.

Membership

As of 24 October 2011, the current members of the committee are as follows:

Member		Party	Constituency
	Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP (Chair)	Conservative	Charnwood
	Rosie Cooper MP	Labour	West Lancashire
	Andrew George MP	Liberal Democrat	St Ives
	Barbara Keeley MP	Labour	Worsley and Eccles South
	Grahame Morris MP	Labour	Easington
	Daniel Poulter MP	Conservative	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	Virendra Sharma MP	Labour	Ealing Southall
	Chris Skidmore MP	Conservative	Kingswood
	David Tredinnick MP	Conservative	Bosworth
	Valerie Vaz MP	Labour	Walsall South
	Dr Sarah Wollaston MP	Conservative	Totnes

Source: Health 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		Fiona Mactaggart MP (Labour)	Slough	→		Yvonne Fovargue MP (Labour)	Makerfield	Hansard
27 June 2011		Nadine Dorries MP (Conservative)	Mid Bedfordshire	→		Daniel Poulter MP (Conservative)	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	Hansard
24 October 2011		Yvonne Fovargue MP (Labour)	Makerfield	→		Barbara Keeley MP (Labour)	Worsley and Eccles South	Hansard

See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament

External links

• Health select committee website