Communications and Digital Committee

The Communications Committee is a select committee of the House of Lords with the broad remit to "consider communications". In recent years, the Committee has held inquiries into the Chairmanship of the BBC, the focus and structure of Government communications with the public and the media, ownership of news media outlets, and the digital television and radio switchovers.

Members

As of 22 August 2016, the membership of the committee is as follows:

Member	Party
Lord Best (Chairman)	style="background:Template:Crossbencher/meta/color" |	Crossbench
Lord Allen of Kensington	style="background:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Baroness Benjamin	style="background:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |	Liberal Democrats
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury	style="background:Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" |	Liberal Democrats
Earl of Caithness	style="background:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Bishop of Chelmsford	style="background:Template:Independent/meta/color" |	Lords Spiritual
Lord Hart of Chilton	style="background:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Baroness Kidron	style="background:Template:Crossbencher/meta/color" |	Crossbench
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall	style="background:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Baroness Quin	style="background:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Labour
Lord Sheikh	style="background:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative
Lord Sherbourne of Didsbury	style="background:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Conservative