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Commons Select Committee of Privileges

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The Commons Select Committee of Privileges is appointed by the House of Commons to consider specific matters relating to privileges referred to it by the House.

It came into being on 7 January 2013 as one half of the replacements for the Committee on Standards and Privileges. The latter committee was divided into the Committee on Standards and Committee of Privileges in order that the Privileges Committee might employ lay members.

Membership

As of 26 October 2017, the members of the committee were as follows[1]:

Member Party Constituency
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Kate Green MP (Chair) Labour Stretford and Urmston
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Paul Beresford MP Labour Rother Valley
bgcolor="Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Douglas Chapman MP Scottish National Party Dunfermline and West Fife
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Christopher Chope MP Conservative Christchurch
bgcolor="Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bridget Phillipson MP Labour Houghton and Sunderland South
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Stevenson MP Conservative Carlisle
bgcolor="Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Gary Streeter MP Conservative South West Devon
  1. ^ "Membership - Committee of Privileges". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2018-11-13.