Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee
The Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom that came into existence in April 2023. It is the successor to the previous Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, which existed from 2009 to 2016.
Formation
The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on 28 October 2008,[1] following the establishment of the Department of Energy and Climate Change on 3 October 2008. The remit of the committee is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the department, and any departmental bodies.
Reformation
The committee was revitalised with the formation of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.[2] Candidates for chair were Kirsty Blackman, Stewart Malcolm McDonald and Angus MacNeil.[3]
Membership
Current membership
The committee's chair Angus MacNeil was elected on 26 April 2023.[4][5] The other members of the committee were formally appointed on 12 June 2023.[6]
As of June 2023, the membership of the committee is as follows:[7][8]
Changes since 2019
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2023 | New seat | → | Mark Pawsey MP (Conservative) | Rugby | Hansard | |||
Former membership
The membership of the committee, appointed in July 2015, was as follows:
Source: Energy and Climate Change 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 | Gemma Doyle MP (Labour Co-op) | West Dunbartonshire | → | Barry Gardiner MP (Labour) | Brent North | Hansard | ||
| Tom Greatrex MP (Labour Co-op) | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Ian Lavery MP (Labour) | Wansbeck | |||||
| 5 November 2012 | Laura Sandys MP (Conservative) | South Thanet | → | Peter Lilley MP (Conservative) | Hitchin and Harpenden | Hansard | ||
References
- ^ House of Commons Hansard Debates from 28 Oct 08 - Energy and Climate Change Motion
- ^ "New Energy Security and Net Zero Committee to hold stakeholder event in Parliament to help shape scrutiny priorities". UK Parliament. 9 May 2023.
- ^ "Chair Nominations Open for Energy Security Net Zero". UK Parliament. 29 March 2023.
- ^ "Angus Brendan MacNeil elected Chair of Energy Security and Net Zero Committee". UK Parliament. 26 April 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Illegal Migration Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Business without Debate - Hansard - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Energy Security and Net Zero Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ "Business without Debate Volume 734: debated on Monday 19 June 2023". hansard.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
That Mark Pawsey be a Member of the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee.