Committee for Privileges and Conduct
Appearance
The Committee for Privileges and Conduct is a select committee of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The committee's remit is to make recommendations to the House on complaints of breach of parliamentary privilege.
The committee also considers petitions to claim any peerage. When considering Claims of Peerage, the committee must sit with at least three Lords of Appeal present.
Membership
The committee is presided over by the Chairman of Committees. As of 16 May 2013, the members of the committee are as follows:
- Lord Sewel (Chairman)
- Lord Bassam of Brighton
- Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
- Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
- Lord Eames
- Lord Hope of Craighead
- Lord Irvine of Lairg
- Lord Lamming
- Lord Mackay of Clashfern
- Lord Newby
- Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
- Baroness Scotland of Asthal
- Baroness Stowell of Beeston
- Lord Taylor of Holbeach
- Viscount Ullswater
- Lord Wallace of Tankerness