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 departments' policies and programmes will affect both the environment and sustainable development.[1]
The Committee was founded in 1997[2] by the incoming Labour government as a cross departmental select committee with the idea that environmental issues affect a number of departments.[3]
Membership
editMembership of the committee is as follows:[4]
2019-2024 Parliament
editAs of 22 January 2024, these were the members of the Environmental Audit Select Committee:[5][6]
- ^ Suspended from Labour Party
Changes 2019-present
edit2017-2019 Parliament
editThe chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017.[8][9]
| Member | Party | Constituency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Creagh MP (Chair) | Labour | Wakefield | |
| Dr Thérèse Coffey MP | Conservative | Suffolk Coastal | |
| Geraint Davies MP | Labour (Co-op) | Swansea West | |
| Zac Goldsmith MP | Conservative | Richmond Park | |
| Caroline Lucas MP | Green | Brighton Pavilion | |
| Kerry McCarthy MP | Labour | Bristol East | |
| Anna McMorrin MP | Labour | Cardiff North | |
| John McNally MP | SNP | Falkirk | |
| Dr Matthew Offord MP | Conservative | Hendon | |
| Dr Dan Poulter MP | Conservative | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | |
| Joan Ryan MP | Labour | Enfield North | |
| Alex Sobel MP | Labour and Co-op | Leeds North West | |
Changes 2017-2019
edit| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 December 2017 | Vacant | → | Glyn Davies MP (Conservative) | Montgomeryshire | Hansard | |||
| Colin Clark MP (Conservative) | Gordon | |||||||
| 22 January 2018 | Vacant | → | Robert Goodwill MP (Conservative) | Scarborough and Whitby | Hansard | |||
| Philip Dunne MP (Conservative) | Ludlow | |||||||
| 4 June 2018 | Glyn Davies MP (Conservative) | Montgomeryshire | → | James Gray MP (Conservative) | North Wiltshire | Hansard | ||
| 25 February 2019 | Joan Ryan MP (TIG) | Enfield North | → | Alex Cunningham MP (Labour) | Stockton North | Hansard | ||
| 8 May 2019 | Alex Cunningham MP (Labour) | Stockton North | → | Ruth Jones MP (Labour) | Newport West | Hansard | ||
| 13 May 2019 | Colin Clark MP (Conservative) | Gordon | → | Derek Thomas MP (Conservative) | St Ives | Hansard | ||
| 15 July 2019 | Dr Dan Poulter MP (Conservative) | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | → | Jeremy Lefroy MP (Conservative) | Stafford | Hansard | ||
2015-2017 Parliament
editThe chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 20 July 2015.[10][11]
Changes 2015-2017
edit2010-2015 Parliament
editThe chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 26 July 2010.[13][14]
Changes 2010-2015
edit| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2011 | Simon Kirby MP (Conservative) | Brighton Kemptown | → | Paul Uppal MP (Conservative) | Wolverhampton South West | Hansard | ||
| 3 December 2012 | Sheryll Murray MP (Conservative) | South East Cornwall | → | Matthew Offord MP (Conservative) | Hendon | Hansard | ||
| 10 December 2012 | Ian Murray MP (Labour) | Edinburgh South | → | Chris Evans MP (Labour and Co-op) | Islwyn | Hansard | ||
| 11 November 2013 | Paul Uppal MP (Conservative) | Wolverhampton South West | → | Vacant | Hansard | |||
| 25 November 2013 | Richard Benyon MP (Conservative) | Newbury | → | Dan Rogerson MP (Liberal Democrats) | North Cornwall | Hansard | ||
| 16 December 2013 | Vacant | → | Caroline Spelman MP (Conservative) | Meriden | Hansard | |||
| 18 March 2014 | Chris Evans MP (Labour Co-op) | Islwyn | → | Mike Kane MP (Labour) | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Hansard | ||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Environmental Audit Select Committee". Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2007.
- ^ "Environmental Audit Committee celebrates 25th anniversary at Imperial College | Imperial News | Imperial College London". 6 March 2023.
- ^ https://consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CS-Committee-and-Climate-Change-for-upload.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Environmental Audit Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 31 October 2024.
- ^ "Membership - Environmental Audit Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
- ^ "Business without Debate Volume 744: debated on Monday 22 January 2024". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 22 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
That Chris Grayling be added to the Environmental Audit Committee.
- ^ "Tory MP Chris Skidmore quits over oil and gas drilling". Sky News. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
- ^ "Speaker's Statement: Select Committee Chairs". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 627. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 12 July 2017.
- ^ "Business without Debate". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 628. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 11 September 2017.
- ^ "Speaker's Statement". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 597. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Committees". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 598. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 20 July 2015.
- ^ Mason, Rowena; Topham, Gwyn (26 October 2016). "Zac Goldsmith quits as MP over 'doomed' Heathrow expansion decision". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ "Speaker's Statement". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 511. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 10 June 2010.
- ^ "Environmental Audit". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 514. Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. 26 July 2010.