Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
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The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments is a select committee of both the House of Commons and House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to scrutinise all statutory instruments made in exercise of powers granted by Act of Parliament. Instruments laid before the House of Commons only are considered by the separate Select Committee on Statutory Instruments.
[edit] Membership
The current members of the committee are:
- David Maclean (Chairman), Conservative
- Roberta Blackman-Woods, Labour
- Peter Bone, Conservative
- Michael Jabez Foster, Labour
- David Kidney, Labour
- John MacDougall, Labour
- David Simpson, Democratic Unionist
- Earl Attlee, Conservative
- Lord Dykes, Liberal Democrats
- Baroness Gale, Labour
- Lord Gould of Brockwood, Labour
- Lord Kimball, Conservative
- Countess of Mar, Crossbench
- Lord Walpole, Crossbench
