Ecclesiastical Committee

The Ecclesiastical Committee is a body created by the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 that comprises 30 members of the United Kingdom Parliament. Its purpose is to review Church of England measures submitted to Parliament by the Legislative Committee of the General Synod. 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. Members are appointed to serve for the duration of a parliament.

Membership

As of 20 March 2019, the membership of the committee is as follows:

House of Commons					House of Lords
MP		Party	Constituency		Lord		Party
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Peter Bottomley	Conservative	Worthing West		bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Baroness Berridge	Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ben Bradshaw	Labour	Exeter		bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Baroness Butler-Sloss (Chair)	Crossbencher
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Fiona Bruce	Conservative	Congleton		bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Earl of Cork and Orrery	Crossbencher
bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Frank Field	Independent	Birkenhead		bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Cormack	Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Kevin Foster	Conservative	Torbay		bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Elton	Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Roger Gale	Conservative	North Thanet		bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Faulkner of Worcester	Labour
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Helen Goodman	Labour	Bishop Auckland		bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Glenarthur	Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Dominic Grieve	Conservative	Beaconsfield		bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |	Baroness Harris of Richmond	Liberal Democrat
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	David Lammy	Labour	Tottenham		bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Baroness Howarth of Breckland	Crossbencher
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Rachael Maskell	Labour Co-op	York Central		bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Judd	Labour
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Jonathan Reynolds	Labour Co-op	Stalybridge and Hyde		bgcolor="Template:Conservative/meta/color" |	Lord Lexden	Conservative
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" |	Gavin Robinson	Democratic Unionist	Belfast East		bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Lord Lisvane	Crossbencher
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Dame Caroline Spelman	Conservative	Meriden		bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall	Labour
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Desmond Swayne	Conservative	New Forest West		bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Baron Plant of Highfield	Labour

See also

• Joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
• Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom

External links

• Ecclesiastical Committee website