Energy Security and Net Zero Select Committee

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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.

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Formation

The House of Commons agreed to the establishment of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee 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

As the department was disbanded and merged with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to form the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in July 2016, the committee was also abolished. 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]

MemberPartyConstituency
Angus MacNeil MP (Chair) Independent (elected as SNP) Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Vicky Ford MP Conservative Chelmsford
Barry Gardiner MP Labour Brent North
Mark Garnier MP Conservative Wyre Forest
Mark Hendrick MP Labour Preston
Mark Pawsey MP Conservative Rugby
Dan Poulter MP Conservative Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP Labour Brighton Kemptown
Alexander Stafford MP Conservative Rother Valley
Derek Thomas MP Conservative St Ives
Mick Whitley MP Labour Birkenhead

Changes since 2019

DateOutgoing Member
& Party
ConstituencyNew Member
& Party
ConstituencySource
19 June 2023New seat Mark Pawsey MP (Conservative) Rugby Hansard
20 November 2023 Hilary Benn MP (Labour) Leeds Central Mick Whitley MP (Labour) Birkenhead Hansard
11 December 2023 Mark Jenkinson MP (Conservative) Workington Derek Thomas MP (Conservative) St Ives Hansard

Former membership

The membership of the committee, appointed in July 2015, was as follows:

MemberPartyConstituency
Angus MacNeil MP (Chair) Scottish National Party Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Alistair Carmichael MP Liberal Democrat Orkney and Shetland
Glyn Davies MP Conservative Montgomeryshire
James Heappey MP Conservative Wells
Ian Lavery MP Labour Wansbeck
Melanie Onn MP Labour Great Grimsby
Matthew Pennycook MP Labour Greenwich and Woolwich
Dan Poulter MP Conservative Central Suffolk & North Ipswich
Antoinette Sandbach MP Conservative Eddisbury
Julian Sturdy MP Conservative York Outer
Dr Alan Whitehead MP Labour Southampton Test

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.

DateOutgoing Member
& Party
ConstituencyNew Member
& Party
ConstituencySource
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

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