Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 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 expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and any departmental bodies.

The committee came into existence as the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee on 1 October 2009, replacing the Business and Enterprise Select Committee, which was dissolved on 30 September 2009. The House of Commons agreed to the committee's establishment on 25 June 2009,^[1] following Prime Minister Gordon Brown's replacement of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 5 June 2009. Following the merger of the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in July 2016, the name of the committee was changed in October 2016 to reflect the name of the new department.^[2]

Membership

The Committee's Chair until the 2017 general election was Iain Wright, elected on 18 June 2015. The other members of the Committee were formally appointed on 8 July 2015.^[2] On 12 July 2017, Rachel Reeves was elected chair of the committee.^[3]

During the 2014/15 session of Parliament, membership was as follows:

	Party	Constituency
Adrian Bailey MP (Chair)	Labour Co-op	West Bromwich West
Brian Binley MP	Conservative	Northampton South
Paul Blomfield MP	Labour	Sheffield Central
Katy Clark MP	Labour	North Ayrshire and Arran
Mike Crockart MP	Liberal Democrat	Edinburgh West
Caroline Dinenage MP	Conservative	Gosport
Julie Elliott MP	Labour	Sunderland Central
Rebecca Harris MP	Conservative	Castle Point
Ann McKechin MP	Labour	Glasgow North
Robin Walker MP	Conservative	Worcester
Nadhim Zahawi MP	Conservative	Stratford-upon-Avon

Source: BIS Committee

Changes

Occasionally, the House of Commons ordered changes to be made in terms of membership of the select committee, as proposed by the Committee of Selection. Such changes are shown below.

Date		Constituency	→		Constituency	Source
2 November 2010	Nicky Morgan MP (Conservative)	Loughborough	→	Simon Kirby MP (Conservative)	Brighton Kemptown	Hansard
	Luciana Berger MP (Labour)	Liverpool Wavertree	→	Paul Blomfield MP (Labour)	Sheffield Central
	Jack Dromey MP (Labour)	Birmingham Erdington		Katy Clark MP (Labour)	North Ayrshire and Arran
	Chi Onwurah MP (Labour)	Newcastle upon Tyne Central		Gregg McClymont MP (Labour)	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	Rachel Reeves MP (Labour)	Leeds West		Ian Murray MP (Labour)	Edinburgh South
21 March 2011	Gregg McClymont MP (Labour)	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East	→	Dan Jarvis MP (Labour)	Barnsley Central	Hansard
24 October 2011	Dan Jarvis MP (Labour)	Barnsley Central	→	Julie Elliott MP (Labour)	Sunderland Central	Hansard
24 October 2011	Ian Murray MP (Labour)	Edinburgh South	→	Ann McKechin MP (Labour)	Glasgow North	Hansard
16 July 2012	David Ward MP (Liberal Democrat)	Bradford East	→	Mike Crockart MP (Liberal Democrat)	Edinburgh West	Hansard
5 November 2012	Margot James MP (Conservative)	Stourbridge	→	Caroline Dinenage MP (Conservative)	Gosport	Hansard
5 November 2012	Simon Kirby MP (Conservative)	Brighton Kemptown	→	Robin Walker MP (Conservative)	Worcester	Hansard

References

↑ Hansard - 25 June 2009: Standing Orders etc. (Machinery of Government Changes)
1 2 "Membership - Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee". UK Parliament. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/12/the-guardian-view-on-select-committees-chairs-of-power

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