The Finance Committee, until 2015 known as the Finance and Services Committee, [1] is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The committee considers expenditure on and the administration of services for the House of Commons, and it has responsibility for detailed scrutiny of the House’s budget.
As of February 2023, the members of the committee are as follows:
Member | Party | Constituency | |
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Rt Hon Sharon Hodgson PC MP (Chair) | Labour | Washington and Sunderland West | |
Clive Betts MP | Labour | Sheffield South East | |
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP | Conservative | The Cotswolds | |
Nigel Evans MP | Conservative | Ribble Valley | |
Marion Fellows MP | Scottish National Party | Motherwell and Wishaw | |
Craig Mackinlay MP | Conservative | South Thanet | |
Nigel Mills MP | Conservative | Amber Valley | |
Mary Robinson MP | Conservative | Cheadle | |
David Simmonds CBE MP | Conservative | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | |
Rt Hon Mark Tami PC MP | Labour | Alyn and Deeside | |
Rt Hon Dame Rosie Winterton MP | Labour | Doncaster Central |
Members were announced on 30 October 2017. [2]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
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Clive Betts MP | Labour | Sheffield South East | |
Chris Bryant MP | Labour | Rhondda | |
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP | Conservative | The Cotswolds | |
Neil Gray MP | SNP | Airdrie and Shotts | |
Lindsay Hoyle MP | Labour | Chorley | |
Helen Jones MP | Labour | Warrington North | |
Stephen McPartland MP | Conservative | Stevenage | |
Mark Menzies MP | Conservative | Fylde | |
Sir Robert Syms MP | Conservative | Poole | |
Mark Tami MP | Labour | Alyn and Deeside | |
William Wragg MP | Conservative | Hazel Grove |
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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5 March 2018 | William Wragg MP (Conservative) | Hazel Grove | → | Luke Graham MP (Conservative) | Ochil and South Perthshire | Hansard | ||
18 February 2019 | Helen Jones MP (Labour) | Warrington North | → | Bambos Charalambous MP (Labour) | Enfield Southgate | Hansard |
Members were announced on 20 July 2015. [3]
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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17 October 2016 | Nick Brown MP (Labour) | Newcastle upon Tyne East | → | Dame Rosie Winterton MP (Labour) | Doncaster Central | Hansard | ||
7 November 2016 | Helen Jones MP (Labour) | Warrington North | → | Sir Alan Meale MP (Labour) | Mansfield | Hansard | ||
19 December 2016 | Mark Garnier MP (Conservative) | Wyre Forest | → | Mark Menzies MP (Conservative) | Fylde | Hansard | ||
16 January 2017 | Jake Berry MP (Conservative) | Rossendale and Darwen | → | Stephen McPartland MP (Conservative) | Stevenage | Hansard | ||
6 February 2017 | Kwasi Kwarteng MP (Conservative) | Spelthorne | → | William Wragg MP (Conservative) | Hazel Grove | Hansard |
Members were announced on 26 July 2010. [4]
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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8 November 2010 | Luciana Berger MP (Labour Co-op) | Liverpool Wavertree | → | Clive Betts MP (Labour) | Sheffield South East | Hansard | ||
14 November 2011 | Brooks Newmark MP (Conservative) | Braintree | → | Shailesh Vara MP (Conservative) | North West Cambridgeshire | Hansard | ||
30 January 2012 | Jonathan Reynolds MP (Labour Co-op) | Stalybridge and Hyde | → | George Howarth MP (Labour) | Knowsley | Hansard | ||
14 January 2013 | Shailesh Vara MP (Conservative) | North West Cambridgeshire | → | Greg Knight MP (Conservative) | Derby North | Hansard | ||
10 December 2013 | James Gray MP (Conservative) | North Wiltshire | → | Robert Syms MP (Conservative) | Poole | Hansard |
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