The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee (formerly the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee) is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to examine the work, the expenditure, administration and policies of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and its associated public bodies.
Following the 2024 United Kingdom general election, chairs and member of committees are yet to be appointed. [1]
As of December 2023, the membership of the committee was as follows: [2] [3] [4]
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with the members of the committee being announced on 11 September 2017. [5] [6]
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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11 December 2017 | New seat | → | Jo Platt MP (Labour and Co-op) | Leigh | Hansard | |||
5 February 2018 | Fiona Onasanya MP (Independent) | Peterborough | → | Matt Western MP (Labour) | Warwick and Leamington | Hansard | ||
23 July 2018 | Mike Amesbury MP (Labour) | Weaver Vale | → | Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP (Labour) | Slough | Hansard | ||
Jo Platt MP (Labour and Co-op) | Leigh | Teresa Pearce MP (Labour) | Erith and Thamesmead | |||||
20 May 2019 | Liz Twist MP (Labour) | Blaydon | → | Mohammad Yasin MP (Labour) | Bedford | Hansard |
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members being announced on 13 July 2015. [7] [8]
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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26 October 2015 | Angela Rayner MP (Labour) | Ashton-under-Lyne | → | Liz Kendall MP (Labour) | Leicester West | Hansard | ||
7 March 2016 | Jo Cox MP (Labour) | Batley and Spen | → | Jim McMahon MP (Labour and Co-op) | Oldham West and Royton | Hansard | ||
31 October 2016 | Liz Kendall MP (Labour) | Leicester West | → | Rushanara Ali MP (Labour and Co-op) | Bethnal Green and Bow | Hansard | ||
Jim McMahon MP (Labour and Co-op) | Oldham West and Royton | Melanie Onn MP (Labour) | Great Grimsby | |||||
18 April 2017 | Julian Knight MP (Conservative) | Solihull | → | Christopher Chope MP (Conservative) | Christchurch | Hansard |
The chair was elected on 10 June 2010, with members being announced on 12 July 2010. [9] [10]
Chair | Party | Constituency | First elected | Method | |
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Clive Betts | Labour | Sheffield South East (Sheffield Attercliffe 1992–2010) | 10 June 2010 | Elected by the House of Commons [11] | |
Phyllis Starkey | Labour | Milton Keynes South West | 28 June 2006 | Elected by the Select Committee [12] | |
Previously as Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Select Committee | |||||
Phyllis Starkey | Labour | Milton Keynes South West | 14 July 2005 | Elected by the Select Committee [12] | |
Andrew Bennett | Labour | Denton and Reddish | 23 July 2002 | Elected by the Select Committee [13] |
From June 2010 chairs of select committees have been directly elected by a secret ballot of the whole House of Commons using the alternative vote system. Candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their votes redistributed until one remaining candidate has more than half of valid votes. [14] Elections are held at the beginning of a parliament or in the event of a vacancy. [15]
30 January 2020 [16] | |||
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Candidate | 1st round | ||
Votes | % | ||
Clive Betts | Unopposed | ||
Not redistributed | |||
Valid votes |
12 July 2017 [17] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | 1st round | ||
Votes | % | ||
Clive Betts | 335 | 59.4 | |
David Lammy | 229 | 40.6 | |
Not redistributed | |||
Valid votes | 564 |
17 June 2015 [18] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | 1st round | ||
Votes | % | ||
Clive Betts | Unopposed | ||
Not redistributed | |||
Valid votes |
9 June 2010 [11] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | 1st round | ||
Votes | % | ||
Clive Betts | 279 | 50.3 | |
Nick Raynsford | 276 | 49.7 | |
Not redistributed | |||
Valid votes | 555 |
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That Florence Eshalomi be discharged from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee and Nadia Whittome be added.
That Paul Holmes be discharged from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee and Tom Hunt be added.
That Mrs Natalie Elphicke be discharged from the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee and Steve Tuckwell be added.