West Midlands Regional Select Committee

The West Midlands Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committee of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The establishment of the committee was agreed by the House of Commons on 12 November 2008,^[1] following the appointment of 'regional ministers' by Gordon Brown on his appointment as Prime Minister in June 2007.^[2] The committee came into existence on 1 January 2009 and ceased to exist upon the dissolution of Parliament on 12 April 2010.^[3]^[4]

The purpose of the Committee was "to examine regional strategies and the work of regional bodies" in the West Midlands.

Membership

Member		Party	Constituency
	Richard Burden MP (Chair)	Labour	Birmingham Northfield
	Adrian Bailey MP	Labour	West Bromwich West
	Janet Dean MP	Labour	Burton
	James Plaskitt MP	Labour	Warwich and Leamington
	Richard Taylor MP	Independent Health Concern	Wyre Forest
	Joan Walley MP	Labour	Stoke-on-Trent North

Source: Parliament website

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons orders changes to be made in terms of membership of select committees, as proposed by the Leader of the House. Such changes are shown below.

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
Nov 10, 2009		David Kidney MP (Labour)	Stafford	→		Janet Dean MP (Labour)	Burton	Hansard

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