The Women and Equalities Committee is a select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was established following the 2015 general election to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Government Equalities Office on equalities (sex, age, race, sexual orientation, disability and transgender/gender identity) issues.
The committee has faced criticism for its name, and in 2017, Conservative MP Philip Davies said it should be renamed the "Equalities Committee". [1]
As of November 2023, the membership of the committee is as follows: [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
The chair was elected on 12 July 2017, with members announced on 11 September 2017. [7] [8]
Member | Party | Constituency | |
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Maria Miller MP (Chair) | Conservative | Basingstoke | |
Angela Crawley MP | SNP | Lanark and Hamilton East | |
Philip Davies MP | Conservative | Shipley | |
Rosie Duffield MP | Labour | Canterbury | |
Kirstene Hair MP | Conservative | Angus | |
Jared O'Mara MP | Labour | Sheffield Hallam | |
Jess Phillips MP | Labour | Birmingham Yardley | |
Gavin Shuker MP | Labour | Luton South | |
Tulip Siddiq MP | Labour | Hampstead and Kilburn |
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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16 October 2017 | New seat | → | Eddie Hughes MP (Conservative) | Walsall North | Hansard | |||
6 November 2017 | Jared O'Mara MP (Independent) | Sheffield Hallam | → | Vacant | Hansard | |||
20 November 2017 | Vacant | → | Tonia Antoniazzi MP (Labour) | Gower | Hansard | |||
5 March 2018 | New seat | → | Vicky Ford MP (Conservative) | Chelmsford | Hansard | |||
4 June 2018 | Rosie Duffield MP (Labour) | Canterbury | → | Sarah Champion MP (Labour) | Rotherham | Hansard | ||
Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour) | Hampstead and Kilburn | Teresa Pearce MP (Labour) | Erith and Thamesmead | |||||
11 June 2018 | Teresa Pearce MP (Labour) | Erith and Thamesmead | → | Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour) | Hampstead and Kilburn | Hansard | ||
26 November 2018 | Kirstene Hair MP (Conservative) | Angus | → | Anna Soubry MP (Conservative) | Broxtowe | Hansard | ||
8 May 2019 | Gavin Shuker MP (Change UK) | Luton South | → | Stephanie Peacock MP (Labour) | Barnsley East | Hansard |
The chair was elected on 18 June 2015, with members announced on 6 July 2015. [9] [10]
Date | Outgoing Member & Party | Constituency | → | New Member & Party | Constituency | Source | ||
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26 October 2015 | Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour) | Hampstead and Kilburn | → | Siobhain McDonagh MP (Labour) | Mitcham and Morden | Hansard | ||
Cat Smith MP (Labour) | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Gavin Shuker MP (Labour) | Luton South | |||||
13 June 2016 | Siobhain McDonagh MP (Labour) | Mitcham and Morden | → | Gill Furniss MP (Labour) | Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | Hansard | ||
5 December 2016 | Gill Furniss MP (Labour) | Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough | → | Tracy Brabin MP (Labour) | Batley and Spen | Hansard | ||
19 December 2016 | Mims Davies MP (Conservative) | Eastleigh | → | Philip Davies MP (Conservative) | Shipley | Hansard | ||
23 January 2017 | Jo Churchill MP (Conservative) | Bury St Edmunds | → | Lucy Allan MP (Conservative) | Telford | Hansard | ||
28 February 2017 | Ruth Cadbury MP (Labour) | Brentford and Isleworth | → | Holly Lynch MP (Labour) | Halifax | Hansard |
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That Lee Anderson be discharged from the Women and Equalities Committee and Caroline Dinenage be added
That Theo Clark and Philip Davies be discharged from the Women and Equalities Committee and Dr Jamie Wallis and Mark Jenkinson be added.
That Ms Anum Qaisar be discharged from the Women and Equalities Committee and Kirsten Oswald be added.—(Sir Bill Wiggin, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
That Mark Jenkinson be discharged from the Women and Equalities Committee and Dr Lisa Cameron be added.—(Rebecca Harris, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.