Environmental Audit Select Committee

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The Environmental Audit 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 how government department's policies and programmes will affect both the environment and sustainable development.[1]

Membership

As at June 2015, the Committee's only member is its Chair, Huw Irranca-Davies, with other members to be elected.[2] Members in the 2014/15 session of Parliament were as follows:

Member Party Constituency
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Joan Walley MP (Chair) Labour Stoke-on-Trent North
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Peter Aldous MP Conservative Waveney
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neil Carmichael MP Conservative Stroud
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Martin Caton MP Labour Gower
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Katy Clark MP Labour North Ayrshire and Arran
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Chris Evans MP Labour Co-op Islwyn
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Zac Goldsmith MP Conservative Richmond Park
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Hayes MP1 Conservative Newbury
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Mark Lazarowicz MP Labour Co-op Edinburgh North and Leith
bgcolor="Template:Green Party (UK)/meta/color" | Caroline Lucas MP Green Brighton Pavilion
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Caroline Nokes MP Conservative Romsey and Southampton North
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Matthew Offord MP Conservative Hendon
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Mark Spencer MP Conservative Sherwood
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Paul Uppal MP Conservative Wolverhampton South West
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alan Whitehead MP Labour Southampton Test
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Simon Wright MP Liberal Democrat Norwich South

1 Ex-officio membership as Environment Minister.
Source: Environmental Audit 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
5 December 2011 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Simon Kirby MP (Conservative) Brighton Kemptown bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Paul Uppal MP (Conservative) Wolverhampton South West Hansard
3 December 2012 bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sheryll Murray MP (Conservative) South East Cornwall bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Matthew Offord MP (Conservative) South East Cornwall Hansard
10 December 2012 bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ian Murray MP (Labour) Edinburgh South bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Chris Evans MP (Labour Co-op) Islwyn Hansard

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ Environmental Audit Select Committee
  2. ^ "Winning candidates for select committee Chairs announced". UK Parliament. Retrieved 22 June 2015.